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Post by Deleted on Mar 26, 2016 14:44:18 GMT -5
Are you on LinkedIn? What are your thoughts about it?
I am currently employed full-time but keeping my eyes open for something better. I live in a rural area so jobs are limited.
Would being on LinkedIn benefit me? Do you think a lot of people land jobs through LinkedIn?
When people have "connections", do they have to accept them or does it just happen? Can I tell when someone looks at my profile? Can someone tell if I look at their profile?
Thanks.
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Post by sarcasticgirl on Mar 26, 2016 15:50:47 GMT -5
I am... most people I know are as well. I have been contacted by a recruiter via linked in. I assume he saw our connections that we share (all people I work with- most he helped get jobs that led to them leaving the firm) There are job postings and other beneficial aspects if you are looking for employment You have to accept a connection.
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Post by alabamagal on Mar 26, 2016 16:36:38 GMT -5
I have been on LinkedIn several years. For 2 reasons:
1). Keep up with former coworkers. I worked for a large company for 20 years that shit down our location and laid everyone off (a few got to transfer). I don't really contact them much, just congratulate if they get new job or other big changes.
2). When I was thinking about looking for new job I just posted my resume on there as my home page. It was on there for a while but about 2 years ago I started to get contacts from recruiters. One of the first ones I talked to and she got me my current job, which I love! Will love even better next week when I get my first big bonus! I am not looking for job right now, there are a lot of incentives for me to stay at least another year and a half ( when I get vested in retirement/401k match and don't have to pay back relo money). But I still accept requests from recruiters because you never know when I might be in the market again.
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Post by andi9899 on Mar 26, 2016 17:57:30 GMT -5
Are you on LinkedIn? What are your thoughts about it?
I am currently employed full-time but keeping my eyes open for something better. I live in a rural area so jobs are limited.
Would being on LinkedIn benefit me? Do you think a lot of people land jobs through LinkedIn?
When people have "connections", do they have to accept them or does it just happen? Can I tell when someone looks at my profile? Can someone tell if I look at their profile?
Thanks.
I am on LinkedIn. I got the job I'm getting ready to start there. I was approached about an amazing opportunity. You don't have to accept every invitation to connect. I try and be a little selective. And yes, people can see when you viewed their profile and vice versa.
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Post by debthaven on Mar 26, 2016 18:02:43 GMT -5
I think most people are on LinkedIn. I'm certainly not active on it but when I get a request, if I know the person, I accept the request. Occasionally even if I don't know them personally, but not if they live in a country I've never set foot in or know anybody from (because that has happened, with someone who was really insistent, I finally blocked him with the "I do not know this person" option).
I have a close friend who was dead set on a certain job. He worked his LinkedIn contacts for months until he got the job. At the first set of layoffs, he was let go. Last in, first out, and zero personal contacts there.
You need to pay for Premium to see who looks at your profile. Same for them, they would have to pay to see who looks at theirs. I can't speak to that because I have never used Premium (not even the first month free which they always advertise).
You have to accept the "connections" to be "Linked". As far as I know, you can only request to "connect" with somebody who is already connected to one of your connections. If you're on Facebook, it's similar to a FB friend request, but you can only ask a "friend of a friend" to connect, not somebody you have nobody in common with. But you have to "accept" a request if someone asks and you want to be "connected" to them, it doesn't just happen automatically.
I'm also on LI because my students like to keep in touch, and I won't be FB friends with my students (school policy but also my own). So I won't accept my students on FB but I will happily accept them on LI.
ETA: Andi says ppl can see who looks at your profile, I'm surprised, because I thought you had to pay for Premium for that. Maybe that's only the case here in France / Europe. I always get messages saying, do you want to see who has recently viewed your profile? Upgrade to Premium / Try Premium free for one month. Maybe Andi already has Premium? Dunno.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 26, 2016 19:02:29 GMT -5
I've been on LinkedIn for a long time and have 500+ connections. Most are former coworkers, many from Toastmasters, some family members, a few old boyfriends. I like keeping up with the changes in their lives.
I was approached only once by a headhunter through LinkedIn, but the job she had was a good opportunity, just not in a place where I'd want to live. I'm retired now so they don't contact me.
By the way, you CAN invite anyone at all to connect even if you don't have any contacts in common. If they don't know you, though, they can refuse. You won't see that response; you'll just never get connected.
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Post by mojothehelpermonkey on Mar 26, 2016 19:40:31 GMT -5
I am on LinkedIn. It would be weird if I wasn't in my industry. You have to approve anyone who tries to connect with you. Now that I have connected with everyone I know in real life, the people who try to connect with me are a mix of recruiters and random people. I still haven't landed a job this way, but I have gotten interviews through LinkedIn. Also, the process of setting up your profile is a easy way to sort of keep a current copy of your resume on file.
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Post by cael on Mar 26, 2016 19:50:10 GMT -5
I'm not, but over the summer/fall when I start serious research/networking and looking for jobs to apply to, I'll probably join. Keeping in touch with colleagues and people I've met professionally would probably be a good idea.
I'd probably join if I were you, it couldn't hurt.
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Post by Anne_in_VA on Mar 26, 2016 21:05:25 GMT -5
I'm on it. I have quite a few connections, but I get lots of requests from people who found me because of my job and industry. I usually ignore them, especially if I've never met them or met or talked to any one from their company.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 27, 2016 9:05:30 GMT -5
I am on Linkedin. I don't even have a complete resume. But i found my current job (2+ Years) via linkedin. Well actually i was contacted by my current company's recruiter through there. I get contacted pretty often through it. I think it is a good resource.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2016 11:37:38 GMT -5
I got an e-mail late last week from a guy who'd worked with me on a Committee of our professional society. His daughter is finishing up an MBA in Finance (3.9 GPA at a high-power university) and wanted to work at an organization where I have a contact- which he found out because he and I are connected on LinkedIn.
So, I sent his daughter's CV and cover letter to my contact at the organization; I'm sure she'll get a reply because the contact is a gracious woman I've known for years, even though we haven't seen each other in a long time.
Good example of how LinkedIn can work and also how it's harder to make it if you're the first college graduate in your family. It's nice when Dad can mine his LinkedIn contacts and refer you to the right people.
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Post by justme on Mar 28, 2016 11:46:00 GMT -5
I got my current job through LinkedIn.
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on Mar 28, 2016 11:50:14 GMT -5
I'm on it but I didn't have much luck with it.
I got a couple of recruiters who looked at my profile in the area but it didn't lead to anything.
LinkedIn couldn't connect to my email account to mine contacts. I worked for hours trying to find graduate students that had connects to the businesses I was interested in but no luck.
I could not find anyone of importance at the companies I was interested in that would accept a request outside of their network.
I tried Premium for a bit so I could IM people at companies I was interested in but nobody responded. I cancelled after the free month.
Maybe I wasn't using it right, it's a tool like anything else and it's only as effective as the person using it.
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Post by bean29 on Mar 28, 2016 11:59:42 GMT -5
A link to an article in my local Paper yesterday (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
www.jsonline.com/business/for-business-people-linkedin-is-critical-b99694217z1-373628221.html
Breitbarth has taught hundreds of LinkedIn training classes at companies, colleges and even in churches with job ministries — he does the latter for free. He says he has a mailing list of 25,000 people and has sold nearly 100,000 copies of his book "The Power Formula for LinkedIn Success." And he says it is his observation that many baby boomers are still having trouble understanding the power of LinkedIn.
I think I will see if my library has that book. The article also indicated there are training seminars. I could use something b/c I have been on Linked in for several years, and really don't "get it". I did enter my resume, but it does need to be updated/tweaked.
Success! I managed to put it on Hold at my Library. my on line card catalog indicates that similar titles are:
LinkedIn for dummies Elad, Joel
How to find a job on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, and Google +, Schepp, Brad
The complete idiot's guide to LinkedIn, Gunelius, Susan
Ultimate guide to Linked in for business: how to get connected with 130 million customers in ten minutes, Prodromou, Ted.
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Post by greeniis10 on Mar 28, 2016 12:08:34 GMT -5
I'm on it for the same reasons everyone else has posted. There are ways to keep some things private or turn off notifications. I learned that the hard way after updating my photo and it automatically sent all my contacts a notification of the update. Really didn't want to do that. Looked like a grab for attention. Now I know better.
Also, if I get a connection request from someone I don't know I always look at the profile first. Three separate times in the past two weeks I've received requests (one from Vietnam and two from the U.K.) and when I go to their profile it says the profile has been deleted. Anyone else get these? Just curious.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2016 12:43:31 GMT -5
LinkedIn couldn't connect to my email account to mine contacts. I worked for hours trying to find graduate students that had connects to the businesses I was interested in but no luck. I'd never use that function anyway. They're pretty aggressive at contacting anyone you ever had contact with and sending them an Invite. DH has gotten a few from people he doesn't even remember.
Even without that, I've gotten "people You May Know" suggestions to connect with a couple of people I dealt with only by e-mail (never looked them up on LinkedIn); one was the florist I used for my son's wedding and the other was the rehearsal dinner caterer. Maybe they're mining my cookies?
And then there was the suggestion of a guy I'd had a one-night stand with when I was in college. Over 40 years ago. Very creepy. I know their suggestions are based on universities or employers or contacts you have in common, but that was definitely weird.
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Post by swamp on Mar 28, 2016 12:47:22 GMT -5
I'm on it. MOst people who are referred to me from out of the area look at my page before they call me.
I also have a business FB page. That seems to work best for people who want to ask if I can handle a certain matter. It's less intimidating than calling me.
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Post by tcu2003 on Mar 28, 2016 12:56:16 GMT -5
Ditto everyone else - I'm on it, and my company uses it for promoting info about us and recruiting as well. I'm in a fairly niche field of engineering, so I actually get a fair amount of contacts from recruiters and head hunters, but I've yet to get one from a company in a location I want to live in. Several colleagues have gotten jobs that way, though.
I'm also use it to keep in contact with colleagues from my professional organization that I volunteer with.
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Post by Lizard Queen on Mar 31, 2016 13:04:47 GMT -5
Help! I have an account that I barely use. I got a network request from a stranger on the East Coast, but definitely in my field. Should I confirm? Could that possibly help me somehow?
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Post by justme on Mar 31, 2016 13:08:54 GMT -5
I add everyone who wants to on LinkedIn. So I dunno if that's an answer?
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Post by Lizard Queen on Mar 31, 2016 13:10:10 GMT -5
Good enough of an answer for me! :-)
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Post by Artemis Windsong on Mar 31, 2016 13:13:20 GMT -5
A link to an article in my local Paper yesterday (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
www.jsonline.com/business/for-business-people-linkedin-is-critical-b99694217z1-373628221.html
Breitbarth has taught hundreds of LinkedIn training classes at companies, colleges and even in churches with job ministries — he does the latter for free. He says he has a mailing list of 25,000 people and has sold nearly 100,000 copies of his book "The Power Formula for LinkedIn Success." And he says it is his observation that many baby boomers are still having trouble understanding the power of LinkedIn.
I think I will see if my library has that book. The article also indicated there are training seminars. I could use something b/c I have been on Linked in for several years, and really don't "get it". I did enter my resume, but it does need to be updated/tweaked.
Success! I managed to put it on Hold at my Library. my on line card catalog indicates that similar titles are:
LinkedIn for dummies Elad, Joel
How to find a job on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, and Google +, Schepp, Brad
The complete idiot's guide to LinkedIn, Gunelius, Susan
Ultimate guide to Linked in for business: how to get connected with 130 million customers in ten minutes, Prodromou, Ted. Thanks for the references. I am sure they will be very helpful.
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