All LinkedIn with Nowhere to Go
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All LinkedIn with Nowhere to Go
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#2A 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.
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#3Should be marked [2013]
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#4One thing I find surprising is how most people will have completely relaxed privacy controls on LinkedIn vs FB&others
Better make my instagram private so no one can see my cat and food photos but hey let me put my entire CV and educational history along with contact info on the internet for anyone to look up
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#5Should be marked [2013]
I had no idea that this was from 2013, and it's faintly amusing that so little has changed about LinkedIn since.
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#6A 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.
I have had the same experience after deleting my account several years ago (for different reasons). I do keep wondering if it will pop up as an issue, so I'm very curious about other people's experiences when not participating in LinkedIn.
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#7A 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.
I have had the same experience after deleting my account several years ago (for different reasons). I do keep wondering if it will pop up as an issue, so I'm very curious about other people's experiences when not participating in LinkedIn.
My solution to the problem was to simply "connect" with every recruiter and friend on linkedin until I hit the "500+" connections tier, then disabled all forms of notifications from the site. Now my profile is very much idle, but when any business-type person looks me up, I still have a presence of sorts.
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#8A 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.
I have had the same experience after deleting my account several years ago (for different reasons). I do keep wondering if it will pop up as an issue, so I'm very curious about other people's experiences when not participating in LinkedIn.
I had a LinkedIn account ages ago but found it useless and chock full of recruiter spam. It was the first of all my social networks to go.
I am always astonished when I hear phrases like "it's required". Really? By whom? I'm glad to hear there are other people out there who don't have it, because all I hear about is the other side: People bemoaning LinkedIn's existence but parroting this idea that their professional career would be all but ruined without it. I just cannot understand this, but I always feel like I must be naive or living in a tech bubble, or just outside the mainstream.
Do people really hurt their job prospects without LinkedIn? (Or did they when this was written in 2013?)
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#9A 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.
> I have not suffered in any way
You don't really know that, maybe you missed out on interesting jobs and you'll never know.
At the very least, receiving recruiter emails from LinkedIn allows me to do networking and meet a lot of influential people at various companies, even if I don't end up landing a job there. It also builds my recruiter network, which is never a bad thing: if I ever need a job one day, I am planning to spam my entire network of recruiter, let them know exactly what I'm looking for and let them do the work for me. It goes both ways.
I respect deciding to opt out of LinkedIn but there is an opportunity cost to such a decision that you seem to have overlooked.
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#10One thing I find surprising is how most people will have completely relaxed privacy controls on LinkedIn vs FB&others Better make my instagram private so no one can see my cat and food photos but hey let me put my entire CV and educational history along with contact info on the internet for anyone to look up
I am pretty lax with my LinkedIn account. How could knowledge about educational history harm me?