If people claim: "I know C++"... then I rub my hands and the fun begins. It usually ends with leaving that one off the list.
Data on the uselessness of LinkedIn endorsements
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#112I love when I receive an endorsement for something like "XML".
At least it's not an endorsement for SGML
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#113I'd like some endorsements for Hypercard, Police Quest 3, and obscure x86 opcodes
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#114I wouldnt start my marketing spiel with "get a job at uber" unless I was going to follow it with "... and bring your wiiiifeeee"
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#115Haha I have always thought this though, I love that Tammy the waitress who I knew from school endorsed that I am capable of Network Architecture and Geospatial databases....
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#116FWIW I noticed many lower-level employees who did a lot of heavy lifting for the company had skill sets and productivity that may or may not have been correlated with ability to get linkedin recommendations or endorsements. I'd even heard talk of management refusing a recommendation because: "is he looking for another job? why is he asking me for that?"
If you look at the world through rational self-interest recommendations and linkedin profiles should be viewed sceptically.
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#117I'd like some endorsements for Hypercard, Police Quest 3, and obscure x86 opcodes
I fucking rule at HyperCard.
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#118Shouldn't we start with the assumption that LinkedIn endorsements are already worthless and then try to prove that they have some sort of value? Hint: you can't.
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#119Up until the LinkedIn redesign a few weeks ago, I used to run a bit of javascript every day that would pick a 100 people randomly on my LinkedIn "friends list" and endorse them for one of their listed skills that I hadn't already endorsed them for. Every time I did that, it caused about 20% of the people to view my profile, which gamed my LinkedIn statistics so my profile was ranked higher in various searches. I have…
Wow, that's an ingenious hack that makes a lot of sense in hindsight. What was your thought process and how did it lead to that? Was it solving a similar problem in another domain?
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#120Without trying to blow my own horn too hard here, I've never really taken these all that seriously and have strongly thought that people who have more (serious) recommendations are often the most useless people. Screenshot: http://m.imgur.com/uyXXEPl Source: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewjohnmcgrath/ [my recommendations]
Thank you for posting this. I love this idea! It could demonstrate one's personality in an unexpected way.