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| olkipukki:
--- Quote from: coppice on April 20, 2020, 04:16:50 pm ---I've never used Linkedin, but at one point I was getting at least 100 spam messages a day from them, trying to connect me to people I'd never heard of. It works both ways. :) --- End quote --- Nobody sent a spam to me from both places :-[ :P |
| Warhawk:
Everyone, I did not expect such coherent feedback. I value this community and it seems that my decision was a step in the right direction. Brilliant minds think alike. I'll do my best to reply back on some thoughts tomorrow. Have a great time everyone. |
| exe:
I had the same fear about changing Linkedin profile -- my boss would know. But then what? :) There are several assumptions such as that people care about this, or your manager will spy on you, or fear of other unpleasant consequences. I think a lot depends on the company, culture, your manager, hr... Even country culture. For some reason I think in the US it's very easy to loose a job. I don't how true is that, I'm judging from what I see in Hollywood movies. May be it can also be a signal to hr that they need to increase your salary :). I know at least one such case, but that was long time ago in Eastern Europe. My experience is I told my last two managers that I would be leaving even before finding a new place. At the end I regret it, part because I promised to leave, but "thanks" to the current situation I backpedaled on it. I was promised to be given a different position that would be a better match for me. But I had to work out our conflicts, because I was close to be fired to not get a contract renewal. All in all, don't do like what I did, unless you are willing to get some experience in tough negotiations where you don't have much weight. I know a lot of people will state that this sounds obvious, my motivation was that I reached a boiling point and needed a lot of support to get through it. I also had one factor in my favor: a lot of people left the company recently, enough to keep me. As of usefulness of Linkedin... I have tons of spam, a lot of "social sales", tons of useless connection request, etc. So, I only use it as my CV. When I'm looking for a job I also use lesser known websites, network connections, meetups, etc as not everything is on Linkedin (although it's kinda weird when a company doesn't have a job posting on Linkedin, even though it costs, afaik, ~$300 per week per job). I try not to spend much time on it. PS you can make up a plausible story, such as you want to be connected with your colleagues, or stranger you've met on a meetup. |
| 16bitanalogue:
--- Quote from: exe on April 20, 2020, 09:53:25 pm ---I had the same fear about changing Linkedin profile -- my boss would know. But then what? :) There are several assumptions such as that people care about this, or your manager will spy on you, or fear of other unpleasant consequences. I think a lot depends on the company, culture, your manager, hr... Even country culture. For some reason I think in the US it's very easy to loose a job. I don't how true is that, I'm judging from what I see in Hollywood movies. --- End quote --- I have continuously updated my LinkedIn profile over the last 12 years and have never worried about my boss or their boss seeing it. This has never been an issue and no one has ever come to me with concerns. IMO, if I am updating my resume and LinkedIn profile highlighting any new skills or position within the same company I honestly do not see this being a negative. Frankly, it never has been a negative for anyone I have worked with in the industry here in the US and A. If someone has a boss that does bring this up as a bad thing then that is a hint to GTFO of that group anyway. |
| Halcyon:
I don't use social media (this forum is as close as it gets). I have thought about Linkedin, but I don't really see the point. I work in a very small and specialised industry where "everybody knows everybody". Linkedin really has nothing to offer me and being able to put down all my specific training would not be possible as some of it is protected. A resume has quite a bit of private information on it and I would prefer to control who I give it to. |
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