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I still don't understand what people are using LinkedIn for.
Are they going to access our email without our permission to get this information too?
While this is sort of cool for some people, I think the sad thing about a tool like this is that it's only going to encourage the wrong behaviors for a lot of people. It puts more focus on people's job titles than what they actually do. It encourages people to chase the corporate ladder, not find meaningful jobs... I'm sure it adds a lot of value to some, but some small part of me can't help but think there are thous…
> It encourages people to chase the corporate ladder, not find meaningful jobs. From my (arguably limited) experience, if you want a truly meaningful job, nothing beats your own business as in a corporation you'll always be subject to office politics, wishes and desires of your superiors, corporate deciding to change course etc., that's at least what I am planning to do in order for my work to be truly "meaningful".…
I believe LinkedIn may have already reached its maximum potential and is on a downward trend. Of course I'm speaking only from personal experience, but as both candidate and hiring manager LinkedIn holds next to no value for me. I see it as a commons that has been largely ruined by recruiting agents who are incentivised by their employers to maximise candidate throughput at everyone else's expense. There is some resi…
One of my coworkers talked me into playing this game. We look for the most professionally pointless endorsements our contacts have and add to them. So maybe someone ends up 3 endorsements for Econometrics and 18 for Microsoft Powerpoint.
Awhile back I reserved the domain developersalarybenchmarks.com HR departments can purchase salary benchmarks from companies like Mercer. Everyone on the developers side would like better benchmarks that are free or nearly free to even the odds when negotiating job offers or raises from current employers. I haven't created a site yet in part because of the self-reporting problems. Will developers trust an unknown sta…
Years of experience, education, and title are never enough to gauge performance or pay.
Hopefully LinkedIn won't ask me for my salary in the future. Cause I definitely don't trust them with my salary info. They'll sell it to everyone - recruiters, other companies...
I'd suggest you to read https://engineering.linkedin.com/blog/2016/10/bringing-salar... , the section about privacy.
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You can turn that off. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20141009022529-27827108-how-t...
That they create a blog post for that rather than easily discovered UI elements (hover?!), says a lot about LinkedIn as a company.
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The Federal Statistical Office of Switzerland sends compulsory salary surveys to the enterprises itself. The collected data is then published in the Salarium [1]. It is based on more than 750'000 salaries from the private sector and runs since 1994. You can read more about the methodology in the PDF [2] I worked as a Software Developer for a company that used the data as base for their salary negotiations and it work…
Interesting video about somewhat public tax returns, and hence salary, in Norway and other Nordic countries. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bO8zEaSuWg
You could tell if someone was poor or rich based on that, but for comparing incomes in your cohort it was not very useful.
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You can turn that off. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20141009022529-27827108-how-t...
That they create a blog post for that rather than easily discovered UI elements (hover?!), says a lot about LinkedIn as a company.
I believe LinkedIn may have already reached its maximum potential and is on a downward trend. Of course I'm speaking only from personal experience, but as both candidate and hiring manager LinkedIn holds next to no value for me. I see it as a commons that has been largely ruined by recruiting agents who are incentivised by their employers to maximise candidate throughput at everyone else's expense. There is some resi…