why hasn't anybody disrupted linkedin yet? what would you like to see instead of linkedin? snapchat for business professionals?
AngelList already seems on that path.
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#22LinkedIn has never been interesting to me for anything other than looking at what past coworkers have been up to. I've never once had an experience where LinkedIn led to a job and in fact after I deleted my account my recruiter email volume dropped by an order of magnitude. I've also read that potential employers search candidates LinkedIn contacts to see if there are any existing employees and if so ask them about t…
Recruiters add liquidity to the labor market. I really don't see how they are a bad thing.
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#23Are there any tools out there that can create something akin to a LinkedIn profile for static hosting? Something like Jekyll?
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#24why hasn't anybody disrupted linkedin yet? what would you like to see instead of linkedin? snapchat for business professionals?
How cool would that be? The use case for me for Snapchat is stupid easy video and image sharing to directed parties. What if you could interface with companies that way? Usually when I see a job I'm interested in I have to go spruce up my resume and then have a bunch of formal conversations with the company in question yet I never get to see a true picture of the job because of that.
Some instant low-friction point-to-point type of communication could make job hunting interesting and fun. It would be nice to send a quick video message with low-pressure to ask about a job. Maybe it could keep you in the mind of the company for jobs that aren't available now but will be coming up in the future.
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#25LinkedIn has never been interesting to me for anything other than looking at what past coworkers have been up to. I've never once had an experience where LinkedIn led to a job and in fact after I deleted my account my recruiter email volume dropped by an order of magnitude. I've also read that potential employers search candidates LinkedIn contacts to see if there are any existing employees and if so ask them about t…
Recruiters add liquidity to the labor market. I really don't see how they are a bad thing.
As in high frequency trading, additional liquidity also equates to addition volatility. That can be good or bad, but a market needs to have enormous "stickiness" for additional liquidity to be an unalloyed benefit. Labor markets are a good example, with search costs high on both sides of the table, so maybe we grant that point.
But there's relatively little evidence that recruiters actually reduce search costs, rather than shifting them around on balance sheets.
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#26LinkedIn has never been interesting to me for anything other than looking at what past coworkers have been up to. I've never once had an experience where LinkedIn led to a job and in fact after I deleted my account my recruiter email volume dropped by an order of magnitude. I've also read that potential employers search candidates LinkedIn contacts to see if there are any existing employees and if so ask them about t…
Recruiters add liquidity to the labor market. I really don't see how they are a bad thing.
I dislike receiving emails from recruiters, especially when they're multiple times per day when I've never indicated to anyone in anyway that I'm looking for work. The fastest and easiest way I have reduced recruiter email was by just deleting my LinkedIn account. I got them down to like once or twice a week that way. Now I don't get any because any of the ones that continued to email I've asked them to stop.
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#27why hasn't anybody disrupted linkedin yet? what would you like to see instead of linkedin? snapchat for business professionals?
Have you people ever listened to yourselves, all "disrupt" this and "disrupt" that? Honestly, you sound like a complete twat.
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#28Are there any tools out there that can create something akin to a LinkedIn profile for static hosting? Something like Jekyll?
Maybe something like h-resume? http://microformats.org/wiki/hresume
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#29Time to abandon ship!
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#30LinkedIn is a worthless piece of spammy shit of a website these days. I haven't bothered deleting my account but I haven't logged into it in like a year now and any mail I get from them that somehow makes it through the filters is reported as spam. I can only surmise they made this change to make it harder for (more) people to bail because they know how dreadful using their site is now and this is an easier "fix" tha…
Some sites just give off a vibe that prevents me from ever trusting them, LinkedIn is the most predominant in that category and I have never been able to put my finger on exactly why. The email proxy apps and the pay to see who viewed your profile aspects don't help. I'm not saying that it's any worse than any other sites, but LinkedIn has always felt like a shady company, like they're not on the users side. I was re…
The "best" feature they have is automatically sending notifications to all your peers (and through email) when you change one little thing in your profile. And they show specifically what you edited. You can disable it of course in settings, but you have to know about that. I've seen enough awkward situations come out of this. How is it even possible that they think it is okay?