LinkedIn

Ubbquittious

Quare auld site so it is. I rarely frequent the damned thing but when I do I'm always struck by an overwhelming "what kind of shite is this" sensation. A bucketload of canned messages from so-called recruiters to wade through when I log in



Then a wall of posts appears with big fat fellas in suits cutting ribbons, some Indian buck behind a huge powerpoint presentation showing off the latest tech breakthrough in privacy violation, some random feature the Almighty Goog is after coming out with and each of these posts have a ton of reactons from young professionals applauding and saying how awesome the above things are


Cynicism seems to be an alien concept on there. Everything is awesome, everything is great particularly if it's done by some American tech company with 40,000+ employees. Everyone seems to have a cheesy plastic smile permanently stuck to their faces smiling up at everything the corporate world does.



I am wondering is the site heavily censored or does nobody have the cajones to say it's actually all a great fat load of bollix from their professional profile lest it have consequences?

Gimme A Pound

Some of the dumb obviously made up sh1t that gets passed around for being "inspirational" is as bad as what you'd see on Facebook.

I find it a good site for job hunting though.

smurgen

Look up the state of linkedin on twitter,very funny.

AllForIt

So when I was in college last year we did a sort of how to find work module, interview skills etc and one thing we were asked to do was to create an online profile, "Me the brand" kinda think which included setting up a LinkedIn profile. I just point blank refused to do it because I just find this online branding stuff so completely ridiculous.

helimachoptor

Can you endorse me :P

ToddyDoody

Would you call LinkedIn 'fun'?

That'd be a no.

Hammer89

It's good for job hunting and being reminded about dickheads you haven't thought of since Sixth Class. "Eric Cooney wants to add you as a connection."

Then you click into his profile and see Eric there smiling like he has a human head in his gym bag and only he knows, wearing a stupid tie and shirt combo, without a jacket because he might be serious and professional, but Eric's also casual and he wants to convey that to the Managing Director of Sony incase he happens upon his profile.

"Eric Cooney's invitation is still waiting for your response."

vectorvictor

Great for "interfacing" with "forward thinking" people who "think outside the box"

It's the equivalent of the nerd table at school - somewhere for the socially inept with 3 facebook friends to feel wanted and parade their degrees and general wonderfulness.

completedit

Beyond cringeworthy but I would say majority just put up **** to appease workplace. A lad I know is the most couldn't give af character and he posts the **** all the time.

Ubbquittious

completedit wrote: »

Beyond cringeworthy but I would say majority just put up **** to appease workplace. A lad I know is the most couldn't give af character and he posts the **** all the time.

Does it do anything for the lad you know? Any job offers as a result of posting sh1te?

Feisar

It could have been a great platform however as the OP says it's a pile of crap.

KERSPLAT!

Manager, every second heur on the thing is a fûcking manager.

Underground

It used to be a decent site, pretty professional.

That's gone out the window in the last two years or so. It's basically become Facebook Lite with people posting stuff just fishing for likes. I'm pretty sure I've even seen a meme or two in my newsfeed.

completedit

Ubbquittious wrote: »

Does it do anything for the lad you know? Any job offers as a result of posting sh1te?

He works in a place that pushes them to put stuff up.

Rikand

When I was a manager I was on it the whole time.

But now that I'm not a manager anymore I don't go on it. The shame of having to update my status to "not a manager" is too much and I'll feel like I will have failed at life

Cockford Ollie

I looked up a couple of previous and current work colleagues and thier profiles are a joke. Nothing but pure lies.

Beasty

My employer asked me to link up to their LinkedIn account. I politely refused pointing out that I had closed my account several years ago and had no intention of re-opening it.

I've been with my current employer over 30 years (which is twice as long as LinkedIn has been around) and have no intention of looking for another job, or providing any personal info to another website of that nature (particularly when all they will do is try and monetise it for their own benefit). It's a site I will never get any benefit from.

I used to get quite a lot of requests to link with others, but I've basically told LinkedIn not to e-mail me again. It's quite interesting when I meet new people who have tried to get info about me on LinkedIn but have drawn a blank - they seem genuinely surprised that I don't share my personal data through that site.

Kirby

I'm with you 100%. I can't understand the need to share everything about yourself online to the whole world......even if half of it is usually lies and exaggerations. LinkedIn, in particular, is full of spoofers.

I've no facebook, twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, etc. Why would I want to know the nonsense going on in other peoples lives that I knew 10 years ago? And why would I want them to know anything about me? Anybody I actually like, I talk to regularly and don't need social media for.

If somebody really tried hard to doxx me I'm sure they could do it but a casual search will yield nothing and that's the way it should be in my opinion. It's so easy to find out about people its shocking.

When people google me the only thing they see is some American lad with my name with a LinkedIn profile. He looks like me as well so it rightly confuses some people. He's even wearing the same headphones I have in one of his pictures. :P

OldMrBrennan83

All I see these days is long posts from recruiters moaning about the toils of being a recruiter.

whisky_galore

Weirdly you can't have on your profile that you're 'in between jobs'.

Damn thing won't have it so still have my old employer and the best fit I can find is the cringy 'seeking new opportunities'.

engiweirdo

Its like a version of facebook covered with the type of plastic the elderly/squirters put on the setee. Everybody is happy and positive all the time in some kind of Valium fuelled dystopian nightmare.

Only good for jobs too if you live in/want to move to Dublin/Netherlands/Germany. Has yet to be embraced/understood by those in the shticks.

Alf Veedersane

Underground wrote: »

It used to be a decent site, pretty professional.

That's gone out the window in the last two years or so. It's basically become Facebook Lite with people posting stuff just fishing for likes. I'm pretty sure I've even seen a meme or two in my newsfeed.

Even birthday notifications and workplace anniversaries now ffs

vectorvictor

engiweirdo wrote: »

Its like a version of facebook covered with the type of plastic the elderly/squirters put on the setee. Everybody is happy and positive all the time in some kind of Valium fuelled dystopian nightmare.

Only good for jobs too if you live in/want to move to Dublin/Netherlands/Germany. Has yet to be embraced/understood by those in the shticks.

LinkedIn : Director of Customer Experience

Reality : Customer Service rep strapped to a headset with "toilet break" as an option on the dialler logout screen

Franz Von Peppercorn

It’s good for it’s primary purpose, the rest is inspirational post hogwash, business speak and bit coin shilling.

_Kaiser_

I find it's something that you're "expected" to have nowadays, especially if job hunting. As such my profile is basically my CV - have never posted anything though.

In more recent times, I find it's being used more by people and companies to try and sell me stuff (I'm a senior IT manager and am regularly spammed by these types). If anything it actively discourage me from doing business with them.

Franz Von Peppercorn

Advisor. Innovator. Entrepreneur. Block chain. Bitcoin. Connector. Influencer. She. Them. Me.

mrmorgan

it full of idiots with egos, who all want to make it look like they are changing the world.

I have worked with a few of these people and they are all terrible at their job.

one guy especially, he was all hashtag this, hashtag that. work hired him as they thought he was a superstar.

I spoke to him for two mins before he tried to have a go at me, he was both brain dead and useless at his job. he didn't last long

andekwarhola

Turn on, find job.

Get job, turn off.

Sorted.

pleas advice

flair and verve in the strategizing stages

AllForIt

_Kaiser_ wrote: »

I find it's something that you're "expected" to have nowadays, especially if job hunting. As such my profile is basically my CV - have never posted anything though.

I object so strongly to this attitude. The thinking goes that if your not on LinkedIn you've got something to hide, maybe your a bit weird, your the type of person that's doesn't like to follow the crowd etc. On the latter point this is a positive as a personal characteristic afaic. But in any case drawing conclusions from the simple fact one isn't on linkedIn is so wrong.

As I was saying earlier in college we were encouraged to have an online profile. We were told that we should not have any compromising material anywhere online include facebook posts, say pics of yourself with a line of tequila shots lined up in a bar on a night out for example. No employers should be checking you out on Facebook if they consider themselves to be professional. It's intrusive and rude to do so.

I think it's fundamentally wrong that employers feel they should expect to find you and check you out on the WWW. It's completely unprofessional which is quite ironic. It's fundamentally wrong for employers to expect that to get on in business that one should have taken the time and trouble to craft an online profile and It's fundamentally wrong to draw conclusions about a person when an employer can't find anything about you online.

TallGlass

It's gives me a laugh the odd time when I see people with manager titles, although everyone seems mad now for the director titles. Most of whom couldn't give a traffic direction on a one way street.

Always found it interesting. I am not on Facebook but I do see the jobs from time to time and I a perfect match on paper. But never hear from them, I assume it cause if your not on it then your not in the bubble. Facebook I liked at the start, then it just got way to much.

TallGlass

AllForIt wrote: »

I think it's fundamentally wrong that employers feel they should expect to find you and check you out on the WWW. It's completely unprofessional which is quite ironic. It's fundamentally wrong for employers to expect that to get on in business that one should have taken the time and trouble to craft an online profile and It's fundamentally wrong to draw conclusions about a person when an employer can't find anything about you online.

Don't see anything wrong with it myself, it's helpful in a way. I would be more impressed with someone having there own domain and webpage, it's cheap and cheerful. Plus you control it.

I could do it, but Linked does it, I use it for what I need and just laugh at the other crap on it then log off.

Ray Palmer

It has been really useful for finding work for me. I have been head hunted from it.

One thing is recruitment agencies need to get their act together. Every new employee obviously is told to get connections. The result is one agency is trying to have 20 connections to you. Why I want to be connected to some junior when I connected to their boss's boss is a mystery?

Then the random connection from people looking for jobs. It has gotten worse over time.