The humblebragging dishonesty of LinkedIn

What is the best way to appear genuine while wearing a cheap suit? Asking for a friend.

why?

You need a scooter to chase after the dog

Wow, talking about missing the point of the thread by a country mile.

Who everyone here, virtually without exception, is sneering it, are the fakers - the people copy-pasting 'inspirational' quotes without a hint of irony. The ones calling themselves 'senior manager for mobile petroleum resource operations' instead of someone who pumps fuel at a petrol station.

It's the ones who spout business babble ' outside the box blue sky thinking going forward' instead of actually having meaningful, insightful contributions which have some value and relevance.

It's the multitude of crap interchangeable 'life coaches'. Johnny who who did a middling leaving cert followed by a few years as a junior manager in Argos then did a distance learning course in business coaching and now has the audacity and complete lack of self awareness to approach genuinely successful people and offer them coaching.

Nobody is raggin on youngsters starting their careers. In fact if they were working their way up without resorting to the above it would be quite refreshing.

Jargon is fine. That's just the esoteric vocabulary of a profession, be it IT, Aviation or whatever.

It's the meaningless buzzwords that are stupid.

Some of us are just old enough and have been round the block and have seen enough bullshyte artists, without having to see it plastered all over the internet.

I don't use linkedin or any other social media because I find the whole lot is generally full of ar**holes thinking that other people should give a damn about them, what they are doing or have supposedly done.

I know of one manager whose Linkedin accomplishments are so far removed from the truth it is a running joke.

When you actually run into these spoofers in real life, it very quickly becomes apparent they are full of shyte.

The thing that worries me is that I will need to use it to move jobs, as now it seems to be one of the go tos to verify someone's credentials.

And if I am interviewing I always find if a candidate is honest it is actually more appealing than someone blowing shyte, which can be picked up on quickly enough.

Call me old fashioned.

Another way to look at it is that after quite a few years down the line 'we' have the perspective to realise that it is all bullshit. And as an employer who interviews I can assure from my seat at least and IMO that Linkedin is overflowing with vacuous crap and corporate speak bingo bull ****. Sure, have a profile by all means and absolutely nothing wrong with that and indeed you should have one but from my experience nobody worth their weight in salt has the time to post inspirational trite nonsense.

Anyone up for 'touching base' later or 'chasing up' some bespoke non descript business Cloud solutions?

Who expects buzz words and fluff at an interview? You are making quite a few assumptions there.

In my profession at least, the technical aspects of the role are never discussed at interview. It is taken as read that if you are called for an interview you have the techincal ability. It does not turn into an oral exam.

Perhaps candidates feel the need to throw out a few buzz words and say the right things but completely unnecessary in my role. It just shows you are probably trying to hard- it won't be held against you.