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Deleting the LinkedIn account and becoming social network -free

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james_s:
I've never embellished my resume at all, it's completely honest, which means it doesn't really stand out from the crowd all that well but the companies that have hired me have been very pleased with what they got. It's crazy the amount of bs some people put in there, I've had people reach out to me to ask about resumes after getting an application from someone who worked with me in the past and some of the things people claimed to do are just absurd.

SiliconWizard:

--- Quote from: james_s on April 25, 2020, 05:07:59 pm ---I've never embellished my resume at all, it's completely honest, which means it doesn't really stand out from the crowd all that well but the companies that have hired me have been very pleased with what they got. It's crazy the amount of bs some people put in there, I've had people reach out to me to ask about resumes after getting an application from someone who worked with me in the past and some of the things people claimed to do are just absurd.

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Yeah! But as you said, this is just for exactly that: attempts at standing out from the crowd.
Bullshitting a resume is silly, but I think many people do that in reaction to how absurd recruitment processes have become.

16bitanalogue:

--- Quote from: SiliconWizard on April 25, 2020, 06:59:05 pm ---
--- Quote from: james_s on April 25, 2020, 05:07:59 pm ---I've never embellished my resume at all, it's completely honest, which means it doesn't really stand out from the crowd all that well but the companies that have hired me have been very pleased with what they got. It's crazy the amount of bs some people put in there, I've had people reach out to me to ask about resumes after getting an application from someone who worked with me in the past and some of the things people claimed to do are just absurd.

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Yeah! But as you said, this is just for exactly that: attempts at standing out from the crowd.
Bullshitting a resume is silly, but I think many people do that in reaction to how absurd recruitment processes have become.

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For a long time I took the advice of using "action words":
1. Drive development...
2. Authoring white papers...
3. Leading cross functional...

The above and the "skills" section of my resume is something I am considering on nuking. I been in the industry for a long time, good I hope I know how to use a multimeter and scope.

Side topic, the biggest scam is the "you must write your resume like X!" I have a hybrid resume where my schooling is last - I highlight my industry experience first.

tszaboo:

--- Quote from: Electro Detective on April 25, 2020, 11:24:25 am ---It's good that TWO members here scored something from LinkedIn  :clap:

But any scumbag can copy an amazing LinkedIn resume, and goodbye to the job you deserved   :'(

Who checks, patrols and controls this type of low down activity?

Who would you complain to   :=\   and what would they do about it?

It's just another 'air' site reeling in desperate for jobs people,
even a dating site would offer better security and remote hope opportunity

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How would that even happen? Like they would claim, that they worked at the same company as me? Or they completed the same projects? All it takes is 3 minutes to figure out if someone really worked somewhere. And besides, sociopaths will exist, no matter what you do about it. As well as bad HR people.

Its like saying cars are bad, because someone might put a car bomb in it...

h4x0r:
Been on the site for 14 years.

It serves no purpose other than shameless hot air and self-promotion, interspersed with ads and corporate marketing bullshit.

When I joined, it was simply an IT industry oriented networking site. Obviously that has scaled and morphed.

I get all kinds of inane recruiter-bs and I politely decline, or simply delete depending on content.

I never made any effort to 'expand' my contacts. But all of my contacts are legitimate and I know them personally, unlike most users.

With the correct applied scrutiny, you can make it work for you, but it's relevance in todays Interwebs of Everything is sinking.

I wouldn't say it's a bottom-feeding social media site like Farcebook, but it's probably one rung above....  certainly not buoyant with enriching content.

If you're not in the IT-related industry, I'd say do not bother with it.

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