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This kind of thing is a big part of my trust issues. I do not have accounts to these types of sites but anyone who has my email address can allow it to be seen. I have gotten emails from LinkedIn on behalf of my friends. I thought my friends initiated the contact but they didn't so this had to be how my address was hit. I have a hard time sharing personal and identifiable information with anyone anymore because of things like this. If I didn't love fitness forums and online shopping I wouldn't have online accounts anywhere really. I hate Facebook and the fact that anyone can snap my picture, without my even knowing it, and post it on Facebook or anywhere else for that matter, without my permission. We no longer even have control over what we want to share with the public. This scares me and makes me very angry!! I had to sign a waiver at my dogs' boarding place to allow their pictures to be on the kennel's Facebook page but the average joe apparently doesn't owe me that courtesy. I have had a couple friends ask if they can post a picture of me, not on Facebook, and I have agreed to their request, but my name is not attached to it. I won't even let my mom talk about me on her Facebook page.
Sorry to go on ranting, this just hits a very sensitive nerve. My information should be mine to decide to share or keep private.
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08-27-15, 08:51 AM | |
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I'm in LinkedIn, but I unsubscribed to the e-mails, as they were getting annoying. I do want to look for a job sometime in the future, and I've been told it's one of the best ways to put yourself out there. I've never been contacted by anyone in my past, but it did send me potential connections from my contact list. However, it never sends me any contacts from my former professional field.
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08-27-15, 09:30 AM | ||
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08-27-15, 09:47 AM | ||
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One thing to remember - I'm in the Silicon Valley where this is considered normal. The entire Valley is technology based. What holds true here, probably does not hold true in other parts of the country unless you are applying for a technology role. To answer the questions directed to me - it really depends on the job I'm hiring for. I am an account manager/director for SAAS (Software As A Service) companies. I hire for sales-based roles. I NEED people who are technology savvy and who know how to network. If I saw someone with a small Linked In presence with only a few connections, chances are they are not a good fit for the position for which I'm hiring. If I were hiring a software engineer - a group who can be more introverted - I would not worry as much about the contacts, but I would want to see a decent resume outlining work experience.
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08-27-15, 09:55 AM | ||
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I had knowledge though (as I was part of it) that a lot of work was being sent to a different geographical area, hundreds of miles away ... Three weeks later, I'd been given 3 days' notice. I chanced to notice a credit card statement that came in, as that was part of my job, and I had to organize things before I left. He'd recruited on indeed.com (I'd never really heard of them before) and it is obvious he'd concurrently run a search on his own. He's great at Google now; and, as needed, duckduckgo (unfortunately, a repository of conduitsearch spyware-carrier). I'd taught him some but he'd run with it and grew to be better at it than I was. LinkedIn figured in on that deal. But it had not driven the search for a candidate down there. LinkedIn figures in with Lynda.com. I think the people over at Lynda are a subsidiary of LinkedIn. Reminds me of the old-school Monster.com that was bought and paid for by several narrow-casted, local office applications software training centers.
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08-27-15, 10:55 AM | ||
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I don't necessarily agree with this, " if you want to be hired in a technology role, you have to be comfortable with technology. Which means, having an online presence. " My husband has been in technology for years and is currently in cyber security. Very comfortable with technology. Not so much with having an online presence. He does not have a LinkedIn account. Thank you for the response to the other questions.
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08-27-15, 06:31 PM | ||
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I see how you love it as a sales person, I see how recruiters love it. It is doing something that used to take sales people years and years to do- put together a network. I am a bit surprised that salespeople and recruiters dismiss us normal joes' concern with the downside. Anyhow, I learned my lesson. I was never shocked like this by either google or facebook. I'm also wondering how to get my presence out there without sending up red flags to my bosses (see very small world I work in). Hey, things are rough and all the sudden I'm in industry groups on Linkedin. Anyhow, no need to go around in circles. Some people don't care about the data mining, some will never join because of it. If anyone has suggestions on how to slowly ease into it, while seeming low key- I'd like to know. I will probably look for a job in about a year but meanwhile, i don't want to seem like i have a foot out the door to my bosses or customers. I have no deep need to change jobs but once my children are gone, I might be up for something more demanding. I also might not mind using it to actually meet others in my industry now that I'm in a new area, to network, as it was intended. |
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08-28-15, 04:21 PM | ||
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I have never used LinkedIn to randomly meet strangers in my industry, and I'm not sure that is it's primary intent. It is a business communication tool, not a dating site. Usually I do other things (go to conferences, recruiting events) to meet people and then connect on LinkedIn to people I met that way. I don't connect with everyone I meet or talk to, although currently I do accept almost all invites from recruiters, since I'm looking for a job. I have used LinkedIn to reconnect with old colleagues, but only those I was "connected to" in a previous job. That is people I knew/worked with in some capacity...not random co-workers at old jobs, or strangers I don't know who are in connections of people in my network. Admittedly, I am an engineer and introverted, so that may be why I'm a little more conservative in how I use LinkedIn. But since we are still human beings as we know it, LinkedIn has not replaced the other ways we have of networking (yet.) Only enhances them. |
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