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Deleting the LinkedIn account and becoming social network -free
steve30:
--- Quote from: Warhawk on April 19, 2020, 10:13:46 pm ---Sure I am a terrible person but what are your first thoughts when somebody says linkedin? What does linkedin mean to you?
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Never used it myself, so all it means to me is a website which sends me spam every so often (although I haven't had any for a long time).
Bassman59:
--- Quote from: Halcyon on April 21, 2020, 12:32:56 am ---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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For small/specialized fields I can absolutely understand your position. All of the players do know each other, and a lot of the knowledge is proprietary.
This leads to the obvious question:
Has anyone gotten a job -- not a contract gig, but a full-time regular employment position -- through LinkedIn?
Hell, let's expand that to contract positions, too.
I'm genuinely curious.
exe:
--- Quote from: Bassman59 on April 21, 2020, 07:40:42 pm ---Has anyone gotten a job -- not a contract gig, but a full-time regular employment position -- through LinkedIn?
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Me. I had many recruiter contacted me, I rejected all of them (because they are mostly noise and their "offers" are often ridiculous*). But one dude seemed to read my cv and offered a relevant position (he even mentioned company name upfront, no other recruiter ever done this for me). I previously was rejected for that position, so I gave it a go, I explained I applied already, but didn't even get to the screening interview. Long story short, I got a job in less than two weeks. Not much trouble from my side, all was smooth and fast. But that was one of a kind experience.
*I was once contacted about a very senior position. The next day another person from the same recruiting agency offered me a junior position in the same company.
16bitanalogue:
--- Quote from: Bassman59 on April 21, 2020, 07:40:42 pm ---
Has anyone gotten a job -- not a contract gig, but a full-time regular employment position -- through LinkedIn?
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This is how I landed my current position. I have also reached out to former colleagues myself over LinkedIn for positions at said current company and they have been hired.
I had previously reached out to a former colleague over LinkedIn about positions available before I ended up where I am at. I was also hired at that company for a few years before other opportunities presented themselves.
Overall, I think it is good for my purposes. I keep in contact with former colleagues, minimize contacts to those who I know and/or worked with, and I keep myself 'out there' simply by having a profile up. As I mentioned before, being 'out there' (updated profile) has never been a negative; i.e., current boss doesn't raise an issue...because current boss is also on LinkedIn
Nusa:
This forum falls squarely under the heading of "social media". But presumably it's social media that you still like!
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