I totally get that it’s not for everyone. For me though, way more traction there than in (say) Twitter or Facebook. But for me it is not “glorified resume site” (to quote the article) but a place actively to connect with people. You get out of it what you put in I guess.
Finally, I Closed My LinkedIn
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#12> "unless your profile is exceptional for some reason, it probably does more harm than good"
Isn't this true of your resume as well? What makes LinkedIn any worse than a public resume?
And if you don't have a good resume, that's totally fine, many companies will still call you in for an interview, however the companies that have a long queue of interviews, will use those resume for discriminating between potential candidates and there's no way around that.
If your online profile isn't good, then improve your online profile. Work on some public projects, write a blog, read some marketing books and apply that knowledge.
And on LinkedIn ... actively ask your former colleagues to recommend you on LinkedIn. People writing words about you is the best kind of endorsement you can get. Don't be ashamed of asking for it.
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#13If I didn’t worry about money, I would certainly delete my LinkedIn. The author’s opinion is that having a LinkedIn will hurt in getting a job. I was thinking that it would help since a lot of companies ask for it.
For me, having a LinkedIn is certainly out of fear however I haven’t had many benefits from it. I paid for premium for 2 months and didn’t get anything out of it in terms of getting a job.
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#14I keep my LinkedIn mostly to be aware of how much they know about several decades of my true social graph.
(cf Böll —he did work in statistics, so I think the irony is strong in this one— https://www.tandfonline.com/na101/home/literatum/publisher/t... )
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#15I find that a lot of serendipitous connections are made on LinkedIn. People will see my profile and strike up a conversation. Seems to work OK for what it is.
What it isn't great for is content. There's never anything remotely useful there, the whole feed is a weird corporate version of the self help section in a bookshop. A lot of stuff is written purely to get attention.
But I also don't see the tradeoff in as poor a light as say FB. What's so personal about where you work? If people can see what I've done they can offer relevant services, mainly they can try to recruit me.
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#16I quit using LinkedIn after realizing that just viewing pages spams people you know with emails... Talk about unprofessional.
It was quite handy to stay in touch with people you worked with but eventually it turned in another spammy cesspit just like every other form of social media.
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#17> " unless your profile is exceptional for some reason, it probably does more harm than good " Isn't this true of your resume as well? What makes LinkedIn any worse than a public resume? And if you don't have a good resume, that's totally fine, many companies will still call you in for an interview, however the companies that have a long queue of interviews, will use those resume for discriminating between potential…
I'm not sure what the author means by this, but my view is that unless you're good enough to get the recruitment people you'd like to see, you'll only get low quality messages that waste your time.
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#18The idea that you need LinkedIn to further your career is a myth straight out of the LinkedIn marketing budget. It was a weak signal that is now pure noise.
There's a large number of people who find their jobs through LinkedIn. I wouldn't call that noise even if some people can do without it.
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#19I find that a lot of serendipitous connections are made on LinkedIn. People will see my profile and strike up a conversation. Seems to work OK for what it is. What it isn't great for is content. There's never anything remotely useful there, the whole feed is a weird corporate version of the self help section in a bookshop. A lot of stuff is written purely to get attention. But I also don't see the tradeoff in as poor…
>A lot of stuff is written purely to get attention.
Doesn't this apply to any social network feed? Most of the time people (or companies) just want your attention and LinkedIn is still a social network, therefore it makes total sense.
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#20I got my job at AWS from LinkedIn.