Simon Janes
Seriously, is there any goodness in LinkedIn anymore or is it still a wretched hive of scum and villainy?
Dave Walk
It's useful for sales people, don't see many other uses. Although I know a guy that actually found his job through a Linkedin recruiter so it is possible!
Simon Janes
Recruiters are kind of strange beasts, a very strange tension between trying to fill positions and match the correct people. I remember being head hunted during the run-up to Y2K by people hoping I had COBOL experience. Nope.
Bruce Webster
Less and less every day. And I just reported a bug to them where iPad app shows bogus new-connections activity. Apparently a known problem that they can't seem to fix... lame. Signal/noise ratio continuing to drop.
Jesper Bylund
Definitely a wretched hive of scum. But much like FB, you have to have a page there for HR people to find you.
Simon Janes
I think more and more, you just need a github account to show what you can do and a sublevel account to show how you interact.
Jesper Bylund
A sub level account?... really?
Simon Janes
YEAH! Right on!
🙄 Doug Belshaw
I deleted my account a couple of months the ago. Just couldn't take it any more: dougbelshaw.com/bl...
Simon Janes
Oh yes, I blocked the whole endorsements idiocy out of my mind. Shudder. Can't go back.
Burensasub
Endorsements are absolutely useless on LinkedIn! In fact, LinkedIn itself seems pretty useless except to find out the official titles of your friends' day jobs...
🏒 Lucian Marin
It might be the other way around. I just read about office romance on LinkedIn.