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All LinkedIn with Nowhere to Go
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Re: All LinkedIn with Nowhere to Go
#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
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
Not always, but how distracting is it really? Obviously, everyone will be different but I get 2-3 emails from recruiters on LinkedIn per week . Managing them takes me about one minute per week. Compared to the number of times where I ended up on a phone call or having lunch/coffee with a CTO, VP of Eng, architect or senior engineer, it's totally worth it to me. My suggestion: don't cut out that option until it really…
Well, unless you're actually really happy with your current employment and income. In that case, why even bother looking for something "better"? At that point that's just greedy.
Re: All LinkedIn with Nowhere to Go
#33The article is old (2013) so there's no mention of how LinkedIn's newsfeed is moving the site towards a work-related version of Facebook, which poses two questions: 1) can LinkedIn compete with Facebook? and 2) Will FB add features for professionals?
Re: All LinkedIn with Nowhere to Go
#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not always, but how distracting is it really? Obviously, everyone will be different but I get 2-3 emails from recruiters on LinkedIn per week . Managing them takes me about one minute per week. Compared to the number of times where I ended up on a phone call or having lunch/coffee with a CTO, VP of Eng, architect or senior engineer, it's totally worth it to me. My suggestion: don't cut out that option until it really…
Well, unless you're actually really happy with your current employment and income. In that case, why even bother looking for something "better"? At that point that's just greedy.
The best time to interview is precisely when you're happy with your job.
You have zero pressure, you can practice interviewing, network and you can make extravagant requirements. If it doesn't work out, no big deal, you like where you are. But if it does, your career can make quantum leaps.
Re: All LinkedIn with Nowhere to Go
#35I wonder what kind of job opportunity it is that's both: 1) Worth following up on 2) Not worth the recruiter going to the trouble of finding your contact details through GitHub/your personal site. It seems like the very lowest common denominator way of finding people, which would suggest that it would also have the lowest common denominator applicants, and the lowest common denominator jobs. Much of this thread is 'W…
>I wonder what kind of job opportunity it is that's both
For most programmers (and even more so other professions), outside of the Valley, most job opportunities are not like "recruiter finding you", and going out of their way to offer you some job.
Rather you apply to them -- and usually with lots of people competing.
Re: All LinkedIn with Nowhere to Go
#36A 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.
You could say the same for not learning Swahili (which I presume you don't speak) or going into Biology rather than computer science.
In other words, the argument from ignorance is useless -- reminds me of a very weak version of Pascal's wager.
Not only because he's still doing OK, but also because statistically I can assure you that the people I know who still have the LI account haven't gotten anything worthwhile out of it career wise.
Besides, the whole argument is oblivious of the notion of Opportunity Cost.
Re: All LinkedIn with Nowhere to Go
#37Should be marked [2013]
As if that's some remote past, or what it says doesn't apply to today's LinkedIn?
Re: All LinkedIn with Nowhere to Go
#38I wonder what kind of job opportunity it is that's both: 1) Worth following up on 2) Not worth the recruiter going to the trouble of finding your contact details through GitHub/your personal site. It seems like the very lowest common denominator way of finding people, which would suggest that it would also have the lowest common denominator applicants, and the lowest common denominator jobs. Much of this thread is 'W…
> I wonder what kind of job opportunity it is that's both For most programmers (and even more so other professions), outside of the Valley, most job opportunities are not like "recruiter finding you", and going out of their way to offer you some job. Rather you apply to them -- and usually with lots of people competing.
Or they should have some presence online and offline. Like meetups or local forums where recruiters usually go. I'm building a service that can help with first one http://aipromo.online, hope it will help
Re: All LinkedIn with Nowhere to Go
#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well, unless you're actually really happy with your current employment and income. In that case, why even bother looking for something "better"? At that point that's just greedy.
The best time to interview is precisely when you're happy with your job. You have zero pressure, you can practice interviewing, network and you can make extravagant requirements. If it doesn't work out, no big deal, you like where you are. But if it does, your career can make quantum leaps.
A quantum leap is the smallest possible state change
Re: All LinkedIn with Nowhere to Go
#40A 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.
Most recruiters are lazy and just blast emails by language keyword search. No, I'm not interested in a 6-month PHP contract. No, I'm not interested in a junior IT role. I've found that removing any mention of specific languages and technologies has dramatically reduced the number of job offers, all of which were a complete waste of my time. Now if only recruiters would stop offering me my same title at a 20% pay cut,…
I have never received that sort of offer. Maybe your resume isn't competitive for the better jobs.