Linkedin - opinions please :)
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COI: father to 2 boys/men. One of whom has just started work after looking for 6 months post graduation and the other who is about to wrap up a 4y masters degree
I have generic pushy big brother who has kids a bit younger with quite frankly absurd profiles on Linkedin listing paper rounds, bar work and being in charge of pencil sharpeners at university. He slags me off for not pushing my lads to have pages of 'stuff' on Linkedin.
Its obvious one of us has it wrong..........
Thoughts welcome. Is a massive profile of garbage on Linkedin really something that potential employers seek or not?
For context my eldest who spent 6 months in limbo/stress has a skeletal online profile at best but the rest of his CV got him regular shortlisting and interviews before bagging a job he is very happy with
TL:DR whats the point of Linkedin?
Point your brother at r/LinkedInLunatics and threaten to dump your nephews there.
https://www.reddit.com/r/LinkedInLunatics/
https://www.reddit.com/r/LinkedInLunatics/
Both your boys are old enough to make their own decisions on this .
I appreciate you can't stop being a father , however it's their decision now . You can give informed opinion.
My informed opinion is that it's bragging and mistruth in most cases .
I believe the majority now consider it near to worthless. Any employer of worth will expect anything recorded there to be absolutely factual and any deviation from that considered a lie .
Very common now . I have been extensively involved in recruitment and it's been the downfall of many promising candidates.
I appreciate you can't stop being a father , however it's their decision now . You can give informed opinion.
My informed opinion is that it's bragging and mistruth in most cases .
I believe the majority now consider it near to worthless. Any employer of worth will expect anything recorded there to be absolutely factual and any deviation from that considered a lie .
Very common now . I have been extensively involved in recruitment and it's been the downfall of many promising candidates.
My opinion
It can be useful, and they will advertise jobs there not elsewhere at times, but it can ve more for higher level stuff and more office based, not always, but after using it for a year, I got far more from proper recruitment sites
Plus the spam and s
tvthry send you via email is crazy
It can be useful, and they will advertise jobs there not elsewhere at times, but it can ve more for higher level stuff and more office based, not always, but after using it for a year, I got far more from proper recruitment sites
Plus the spam and s
tvthry send you via email is crazy If you view LinkedIn as a social media site you'll be deeply disappointed, unless you're Patrick Bateman. Individual narcissism and companies advertising their latest AI tools bloat everybody's timeline to the point of irrelevance.
It is, however, the only business-focused networking site, and after 23 years I don't think we'll see any competition for a while yet.
It's the primary vehicle for advertising jobs in the UK, and the more one builds up a professional network, the more valuable that part of the site becomes. It can be truly helpful, a year or two down the line, to see that a Uni friend is now working at the place you're applying for a job, making it easy to get in touch and have a chat about what you should know. Or to see that Company X is making hundreds redundant, so you can make early inroads in offering positions to skilled staff without having to pay 15% to a recruiter.
Summary - it's pants. But it's necessary pants, and I'd recommend anyone starting a career in business to use it. Just use it wisely. It's not a dating site, and nobody needs to know what you had for breakfast. We have a thread for that here.
It is, however, the only business-focused networking site, and after 23 years I don't think we'll see any competition for a while yet.
It's the primary vehicle for advertising jobs in the UK, and the more one builds up a professional network, the more valuable that part of the site becomes. It can be truly helpful, a year or two down the line, to see that a Uni friend is now working at the place you're applying for a job, making it easy to get in touch and have a chat about what you should know. Or to see that Company X is making hundreds redundant, so you can make early inroads in offering positions to skilled staff without having to pay 15% to a recruiter.
Summary - it's pants. But it's necessary pants, and I'd recommend anyone starting a career in business to use it. Just use it wisely. It's not a dating site, and nobody needs to know what you had for breakfast. We have a thread for that here.
I have been on Linkedin for many years, its changed a lot and not necessarily for the better.
Today, I spent 2 hours in a seminar where I learned a huge amount about it and for the first time in a very long time I now feel able to use it for what I want rather than for what Linkedin wants.
Huge number of options to search and to determine what gets fed to you that are pretty well buried but will be transformative.
I have always been very careful and thoughtful about what I post, what and how I comment and what I mark as a like - like all social media it will follow you around so I stay well away from a lot of posts and chats.
Today, I spent 2 hours in a seminar where I learned a huge amount about it and for the first time in a very long time I now feel able to use it for what I want rather than for what Linkedin wants.
Huge number of options to search and to determine what gets fed to you that are pretty well buried but will be transformative.
I have always been very careful and thoughtful about what I post, what and how I comment and what I mark as a like - like all social media it will follow you around so I stay well away from a lot of posts and chats.
numtumfutunch said:
TL:DR whats the point of Linkedin?
Lots of jobs advertised that are not elsewhere or would be hard to find having to seek out individual companies careers pages.If someone is fairly new to the market and has a decent CV of what they have done so far that is getting interview success just replicate that on Linkedin.
Seek out the discussion groups for the kind of work they are interested in and get involved in the discussion forums. Its likely from that you will pick up a few useful connections. Be selective as to who you accept as a connection and focus how you use it and, industry dependent, it can be very useful. I have got my last four jobs, all senior level at large global companies, through connections without any formal interview process.
Loads of people in my industry post some pretty cool pics from events and what they are up to in the industry.
I like LinkedIn for one reason. It's you who posts, and it's your name on that post.
In other words you don't get the crap like twitter where it's mostly hate. Facebook is mostly ads and Instagram is mostly AI women bots these days promoting OnlyFans.
I'm seeing a massive uptick the past year. I'm not a cringy account just a normal bloke's account, But I had a post with 20K views last summer, My company would of had to spend £1000s to get that sort of number on a ad but I just did a post on an event I was at and it worked.
It's not the millions of views people get on tick tock, but how real are those numbers anyway and those 20k were mostly within my industry.
I like LinkedIn for one reason. It's you who posts, and it's your name on that post.
In other words you don't get the crap like twitter where it's mostly hate. Facebook is mostly ads and Instagram is mostly AI women bots these days promoting OnlyFans.
I'm seeing a massive uptick the past year. I'm not a cringy account just a normal bloke's account, But I had a post with 20K views last summer, My company would of had to spend £1000s to get that sort of number on a ad but I just did a post on an event I was at and it worked.
It's not the millions of views people get on tick tock, but how real are those numbers anyway and those 20k were mostly within my industry.
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