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At that point, why not use static images for data visualizations instead?
I believe endorsements on LI are fake. I'm receiving endorsements for random things from my former and current co-workers and I know for sure they never sent any (either because I asked them or I know it's entirely outside their expertise).
And I allegedly endorsed someone for "TeamCity" before I knew what it was!
Either they're faking the data or their UI design is negligent-to-malicious levels of bad.
When writing LinkedIn profiles for my resume and coaching clients, I advise them to turn endorsements "off". Under the Skills section is a "Adjust Endorsement Settings" listing that you can click to turn it off. Endorsements tend to be just extra noise with all those pictures, and on many profiles there is rather important information (education, projects, etc.) below the skills section. You don't want your reader ge…
In their quest to copy Facebook's formula for professional networking, LI's growth/engagement team makes a huge effort in promoting users to endorse their connections. As a result, nearly all the endorsements on my LI have come from non-technical folks who just know buzzwords (e.g. python was my most-endorsed skill even even though this isn't my most used language by far, and any engineer taking a quick glance at my…
In their quest to copy Facebook's formula for professional networking, LI's growth/engagement team makes a huge effort in promoting users to endorse their connections. As a result, nearly all the endorsements on my LI have come from non-technical folks who just know buzzwords (e.g. python was my most-endorsed skill even even though this isn't my most used language by far, and any engineer taking a quick glance at my…
I wonder if they are useful at all just as: number of endorsements / number of connections. Even if the tag is wrong, that someone vouched for you in some minor way might be statistically significant. Of course, it could be that the UI encourages mindless tagging, therefore it's all cruft.
I wonder if they are useful at all just as: number of endorsements / number of connections. Even if the tag is wrong, that someone vouched for you in some minor way might be statistically significant. Of course, it could be that the UI encourages mindless tagging, therefore it's all cruft.
The UI definitely encourages mindless tagging. I'm endorsed for parallel algorithms by the manager of a very low-end car maintenance shop. Plural of anecodate, yada yada yada, but most of my endorsements are from people who really have no experience in that programming language or concept AT ALL.
If you have done work for him, I'd argue the tag at least means he liked the work. If not, then yeah, useless data.
Screenshot: http://m.imgur.com/uyXXEPl
Source: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewjohnmcgrath/ [my recommendations]
In other words, no kidding endorsements are useless. That isn't the point.