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Ask HN: Do you use LinkedIn?
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Re: Ask HN: Do you use LinkedIn?
#2I am curious if any of you actively use LinkedIn, if yes how? Or may be you can share tips on making use of LinkedIn, for hiring, networking or publishing content.
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#3I do not want to use LinkedIn. It is clearly not there to help me do anything except quantify myself to recruiters, which often becomes just another awful interview experience followed by a bad offer. And of course, used as a surveillance platform for my personal information, for the benefit of the creators of LinkedIn.
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#4I have a profile set up there, but so far it's been useless to me other than to stay in touch with one or two others from a prior job. I hate their "news feed". None of the content is ever relevant or useful. The design is poor.
They also make poor use of notifications. My "friend requests" always shows 1 new notification- but it's a fake notification trying to get you to send out invites. I find user-hostile actions like that very off-putting.
Considering deleting the account, but I'm curious if just "having a profile/presence" on the service is useful or desired by employers? Not sure if I'm "losing out" on anything by not having an account.
The one thing I do like is that others you've worked with can "endorse" you for certain skills, but in reality I'm not sure how useful that is, ultimately.
Re: Ask HN: Do you use LinkedIn?
#5I have a profile set up there, but so far it's been useless to me other than to stay in touch with one or two others from a prior job. I hate their "news feed". None of the content is ever relevant or useful. The design is poor. They also make poor use of notifications. My "friend requests" always shows 1 new notification- but it's a fake notification trying to get you to send out invites. I find user-hostile actions…
Interesting, I too have considered deleting the account few times.
In my opinion, the endorsement feature is totally useless and doesn't represent any real value.
The only thing useful in LinkedIn case is that sometime I want to connect to a person, and upon looking at their LinkedIn I can find that they are connected to someone in my network.
Re: Ask HN: Do you use LinkedIn?
#6I have a profile set up there, but so far it's been useless to me other than to stay in touch with one or two others from a prior job. I hate their "news feed". None of the content is ever relevant or useful. The design is poor. They also make poor use of notifications. My "friend requests" always shows 1 new notification- but it's a fake notification trying to get you to send out invites. I find user-hostile actions…
I got my previous job by a recruiter finding me on LinkedIn, who actually matched my profile to the job.
My most recent interview, the first thing the interviewing manager asked was to connect via LinkeIn.
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#7Linkedin uses me.
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#8Probably the best tool for b2b customer development and b2c professional services ever created. Testing concepts early by having documented third party validation on domain expertise is pretty invaluable. https://hunter.io/ maps emails, where people are far more responsive, however referencing having looked them up on Linkedin to qualify the relevance of your outreach is overwhelmingly effective.
Re: Ask HN: Do you use LinkedIn?
#9I am curious if any of you actively use LinkedIn, if yes how? Or may be you can share tips on making use of LinkedIn, for hiring, networking or publishing content.
Depends where you live. I can give you the San Francisco Bay Area use of linkedin
1. sharing linkedin accounts is more natural than sharing FB accounts here. And I'm talking about social events, friends, meeting someone new. Not about formal stuff... It's really your social profile here. The rest people don't really care anymore since it's all about networking
2. Looking for jobs. If you're looking for jobs and you're not on linkedin then you're invisible in the Bay Area. Plus, all companies career websites ask for your linkedin profile
3. You can lie to a lot of people about your career. Linkedin acts as your professional ID too.
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#10I use LinkedIn to promote my training activities and to find connections -- for example, I used it to find a connection to the CEO of GitLab which resulting in a partnership that has already brought in additional training income (plus a really cool partner!!).
I used to write recommendations and have gotten some nice recommendations back. But then LinkedIn changed their UI and buried the recommendations.