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Re: All LinkedIn with Nowhere to Go

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Post by wyclif »

abhi3 wrote: post #4

One thing I find surprising is how most people will have completely relaxed privacy controls on LinkedIn vs FB&others Better make my instagram private so no one can see my cat and food photos but hey let me put my entire CV and educational history along with contact info on the internet for anyone to look up

You'd have to be crazy to do that. If you use LI, everything on your profile should ideally be strictly limited to a "need to know" basis— in other words, only what is necessary to make a connection that will potentially lead to a job. After all, who puts their entire educational and work history on their CV except new grads? (For young people, exposure vectors would be reduced because of lack of experience).

Re: All LinkedIn with Nowhere to Go

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Post by imaginenore »

blowski wrote: post #2

A few years back, I found myself saying to a friend "I have no choice but to have a LinkedIn account". I realised how ridiculous that was, and within days, I deleted the account. I have not suffered in any way since, and have definitely benefited from not having constant spammy job offers.

That's a silly position. You could have said "I disconnected from the internet, and haven't suffered in any way since, and have definitely benefited from not having constant spammy job offers".

You just don't know what you missed.

Re: All LinkedIn with Nowhere to Go

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Post by LargeCompanies »

Maybe the author is not a coder?

LinkedIn is incredibly useful due to recruiters hitting up us coders a few times a week selling us on some new and better job then the one you have currently. It's how you can give yourself a huge raise with each new job or contract job you decide to pursue & land.

I often wonder if those in other fields outside of coding experience a similar flood of opportunities or not?

Re: All LinkedIn with Nowhere to Go

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Post by joezydeco »

LargeCompanies wrote: post #14

Maybe the author is not a coder? LinkedIn is incredibly useful due to recruiters hitting up us coders a few times a week selling us on some new and better job then the one you have currently. It's how you can give yourself a huge raise with each new job or contract job you decide to pursue & land. I often wonder if those in other fields outside of coding experience a similar flood of opportunities or not?

...recruiters hitting up us coders a few times a week selling us on some new and better job...

Let's not fail to mention recruiters that cold call you at your place of employment, and are too dense to understand why you might possibly be upset at this.

Re: All LinkedIn with Nowhere to Go

#16

Post by vinceguidry »

imaginenore wrote: post #12
blowski wrote: post #2

A few years back, I found myself saying to a friend "I have no choice but to have a LinkedIn account". I realised how ridiculous that was, and within days, I deleted the account. I have not suffered in any way since, and have definitely benefited from not having constant spammy job offers.

That's a silly position. You could have said "I disconnected from the internet, and haven't suffered in any way since, and have definitely benefited from not having constant spammy job offers". You just don't know what you missed.

It doesn't really work like that.

To do anything right, you need to devote time and attention to figuring it out. If you won't or can't devote that time and attention, then you're way better off just not doing it.

This is how you rapidly sift through all the myriad opportunities the world offers you to find the most salient ones. You can't devote your time and attention to just anything, so first you select for those you can reasonably see yourself putting in the time and effort to actually get something out of it.

Returns follow a power law distribution, it's tempting to think that there are activities that you can do that provide returns on the same scale as the effort you put in, but in reality 80 percent of the returns on practically anything go to the 20 percent of the people that take the time to do them effectively. The rest get the other 20% divided amongst them, basically nothing.

Spammy job offers is precisely what LinkedIn offers those who can't or won't take the time to do LinkedIn effectively. What does it offer those who do take that time? I have no clue. My guess would be a slightly accelerated path up the career ladder. Not really worth it. I have a tough time even imagining a possible return that LinkedIn could offer me career-wise that would offset the opportunity cost of working out how to get it.

Re: All LinkedIn with Nowhere to Go

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Post by mlucero »

joezydeco wrote: post #15
LargeCompanies wrote: post #14

Maybe the author is not a coder? LinkedIn is incredibly useful due to recruiters hitting up us coders a few times a week selling us on some new and better job then the one you have currently. It's how you can give yourself a huge raise with each new job or contract job you decide to pursue & land. I often wonder if those in other fields outside of coding experience a similar flood of opportunities or not?

...recruiters hitting up us coders a few times a week selling us on some new and better job... Let's not fail to mention recruiters that cold call you at your place of employment , and are too dense to understand why you might possibly be upset at this.

This isn't limited to recruiters. Software sales has shown up on my phone often enough that I don't know if I want my profile public anymore... It's basically a public directory of every tech company.

Re: All LinkedIn with Nowhere to Go

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Post by emilburzo »

eternalban wrote: post #13

Anyone here has info on this outfit? http://us.viadeo.com/en/

I've found out that a good way to find out more about $website, is to just read the reviews on their published app (if they have one, of course)

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.viadeo.and...

First review:

> Annoying app It takes all your personal info and gives you nothing..... And it keeps telling server problem and I rated it 5 star just to make people see what I wrote ..... I do not recommende it ..... A lot of promises little give

The rest of the reviews aren't very promising, either.

Re: All LinkedIn with Nowhere to Go

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Post by LargeCompanies »

joezydeco wrote: post #15
LargeCompanies wrote: post #14

Maybe the author is not a coder? LinkedIn is incredibly useful due to recruiters hitting up us coders a few times a week selling us on some new and better job then the one you have currently. It's how you can give yourself a huge raise with each new job or contract job you decide to pursue & land. I often wonder if those in other fields outside of coding experience a similar flood of opportunities or not?

...recruiters hitting up us coders a few times a week selling us on some new and better job... Let's not fail to mention recruiters that cold call you at your place of employment , and are too dense to understand why you might possibly be upset at this.

Why would u ever give them your work number, personal phone number or real email address? Give them your spam info...google voice number and spam email account.

Further I've never experienced a recruiter calling my current place of work (wouldn't he or she be fired?) and I often am and or can be vague re: where I'm actually working. Especially if you note you are working for some random govt. or contracting company.

Re: All LinkedIn with Nowhere to Go

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Post by AznHisoka »

incepted wrote: post #9
blowski wrote: post #2

A few years back, I found myself saying to a friend "I have no choice but to have a LinkedIn account". I realised how ridiculous that was, and within days, I deleted the account. I have not suffered in any way since, and have definitely benefited from not having constant spammy job offers.

> I have not suffered in any way You don't really know that, maybe you missed out on interesting jobs and you'll never know. At the very least, receiving recruiter emails from LinkedIn allows me to do networking and meet a lot of influential people at various companies, even if I don't end up landing a job there. It also builds my recruiter network, which is never a bad thing: if I ever need a job one day, I am plann…

If his current situation is good who cares what other jobs he missed out on? More options isn't always worth the sacrifice of being distracted
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