We hire people via linkedin and always check people profiles there. It's very useful for this purpose. However, it's not a requirement.
Without LinkedIn account I won't get a job in US?
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Re: Without LinkedIn account I won't get a job in US?
#12Of course this is just anecdotal, but I haven't had a LinkedIn account in 5 years and have had many job offers. I have never heard of this being a prerequisite or even a contributing factor.
But sounds like you might be well-connected (friends in the business). That's huge. A Polish immigrant would be a different deal.
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#13http://www.warplife.com/jobs/computer/ I don't find much value in LinkedIn. I did at first, but then it was overrun by recruiters.
Having so many recruiters is the value. I get multiple recruiters a week messaging me on LinkedIn, and it's growing constantly. By the time I'm job hunting I'll be able to message a lot of recruiters all at once.
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#14It's just an easy way for HR to indirectly socioeconomically or racially profile you. Have a clean cut picture of yourself on any easy to find US-based social media site to help stay near the top of the pile.
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#15I think it's untrue, but more true for middle management positions.
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#16Of course this is just anecdotal, but I haven't had a LinkedIn account in 5 years and have had many job offers. I have never heard of this being a prerequisite or even a contributing factor.
But sounds like you might be well-connected (friends in the business). That's huge. A Polish immigrant would be a different deal.
It's not about immigration. HR people are talking things like that on seminars for people looking job in Poland :) And they're using such argument so people would create accounts there. So, by reading your comments it's more BS of hr people for theire on benefit.
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#17Of course this is just anecdotal, but I haven't had a LinkedIn account in 5 years and have had many job offers. I have never heard of this being a prerequisite or even a contributing factor.
But sounds like you might be well-connected (friends in the business). That's huge. A Polish immigrant would be a different deal.
I have almost always got jobs by sending resumes out, I have no social network to fall back on. I have a job, I will not start a linkedin profile.
Sending resumes will get you jobs, knowing people is not the only way.
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#18It's just an easy way for HR to indirectly socioeconomically or racially profile you. Have a clean cut picture of yourself on any easy to find US-based social media site to help stay near the top of the pile.
This seems like a pretty paranoid generalization. In my experience linkedin is more of a way for recruiters to just mass-email people that fit keywords so they can keep their numbers up. I don't put much about my socioeconomic status or race on my linkedin....
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#19It's not a major benefit, but it doesn't hurt. It's just an online resume, and you'll occasionally get spam from recruiters. I did work at one marketing agency that would, every week, send out an email to every employee (~40) saying who needed to get X more connections on linkedin that week. So I guess some people are crazy about it.
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#20No, this is not true at all. LinkdIn is pretty much a joke at this point.