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Ossipago posted:I had let my Linkedin profile go for a while and came back to discover they no longer consider sharing group membership a 2nd degree connection, so you're now hit with the "how do you know (name)" questions that can prevent you from connecting if you don't have another legitimate reason to know someone... If anything Linkedin has value since it has a better chance of setting you up for a resume submission to actual human or quick elevator position moment with a recruiter.
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As someone looking for a new sales career (which is very broad I know), should I put something in my LinkedIn profile saying that I'm actively looking for a new job or what's the best way to go about that so passive traffic/people just viewing my profile know that I'm looking. I'm not worried about current employer knowing I'm looking or anything like that.
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I had a recruiter message me out of the blue for a full time job with the org I'm currently with part time (I'm in school - doing coop / part time here). Said no because I'm still in school for another year but we talked for a bit and I sent him my program coordinator details because he's basically looking for grads from our program, just didn't know the program even existed. It was a good interaction, and I'll keep him in mind for when I graduate. It didn't really work for me in this instance but I guess opportunities really do present themselves on LinkedIn.
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Jordan7hm posted:I had a recruiter message me out of the blue for a full time job with the org I'm currently with part time (I'm in school - doing coop / part time here). Said no because I'm still in school for another year but we talked for a bit and I sent him my program coordinator details because he's basically looking for grads from our program, just didn't know the program even existed. It was a good interaction, and I'll keep him in mind for when I graduate. It didn't really work for me in this instance but I guess opportunities really do present themselves on LinkedIn. well often you can fish for email and other contact info for future use. If anything Linkedin is useful for getting your resume looked at by a actual human
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I currently have a part time job that I want to keep but I'm looking for an additional part time job. Is there a good way to indicate this on my linkedin profile?
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I've been plastering together my LinkedIn profile over the past few days. It still needs work but I'm curious about a few things; how much is "too much?" I know that you want to keep resumes brief but because of how LinkedIn works is it best to just cram as much as you can on there? Also, I'll be finishing college soon and I'll have a BS in computer science with a math minor and a BFA. How much experience do other goons have finding work with those kinds of degrees?
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Anyone had any success messaging an HR person who posted a job on LinkedIn? If so what did you say? I'd like to connect with a few people who posted jobs I applied for but not sure if it's worth it or that comes off the wrong way.
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ToxicSlurpee posted:I've been plastering together my LinkedIn profile over the past few days. It still needs work but I'm curious about a few things; how much is "too much?" I know that you want to keep resumes brief but because of how LinkedIn works is it best to just cram as much as you can on there? Also, I'll be finishing college soon and I'll have a BS in computer science with a math minor and a BFA. How much experience do other goons have finding work with those kinds of degrees? I used to go into narrative mode on my LinkedIn but I switched to it essentially mirroring my resume but with a few more (not excessively more) bullet points than my one-page version.
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Is there a way I can tell if someone denied my LinkedIn connection request? A person I could swear I've already sent a connection request to keeps reappearing in my "people you may know" section, and I don't know if my previous connection request with them is still pending or has been denied or what. I could just hit that "connect" button again, but if they've denied it the first time, I'd rather not spam them with another one. Also, in which section of my profile do I put the fact that I'm swole af Siliziumleben fucked around with this message at 16:22 on Sep 13, 2015 |
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Sep 13, 2015 15:33
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Siliziumleben posted:Is there a way I can tell if someone denied my LinkedIn connection request? I get lots of requests from recruiters, which I almost always ignore, but I never reject the requests explicitly. I mean, out of the choices "click yeah sure on LinkedIn", "click nah on LinkedIn", "don't click anything at all anywhere", I pick the last one. Dunno how it works but I wouldn't be surprised if it only reports back to you if someone chose one of the first two, but not for the last one.
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I don't think anyone ever sees what happened to a connection request unless it's accepted. I am almost positive it works the same way as friend requests on Facebook do. So feel free to deny/ignore. If someone is still available to connect after you are sure you sent one, more than likely they simply have not logged in to see it yet. Most people are not on Linkedin every day or even every week.
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Sep 24, 2015 18:32
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Actually, LinkedIn just updated their "sent invitations" page and now you can see exactly when you've sent someone an invitation.
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Sep 24, 2015 18:50
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Siliziumleben posted:Actually, LinkedIn just updated their "sent invitations" page and now you can see exactly when you've sent someone an invitation. That link 404'd for me.
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I've just applied to an interesting position. I found who I think is the hiring manager on LinkedIn and I wondering if you think its worth messaging him. He's got the same background as I do and the same major so I figured I'd ask how his education and degree helped him in his current role. He also used to perform the same job I applied to which may help me determine a good fit. Should I message this person and if so, how should I word it?
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Sep 29, 2015 15:48
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Big Spoon posted:I've just applied to an interesting position. I found who I think is the hiring manager on LinkedIn and I wondering if you think its worth messaging him. He's got the same background as I do and the same major so I figured I'd ask how his education and degree helped him in his current role. He also used to perform the same job I applied to which may help me determine a good fit. Should I message this person and if so, how should I word it? That seems like a kinda boring, formal question. If youre gonna message someone, ask them something they'd wanna reply to, or just use it to call attention to your baller rear end linkedin since they'll probably visit it if theyre considering you as a candidate.
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Sep 29, 2015 21:21
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Do I list MOOC certificates (from edX, Coursera etc.) in LinkedIn's "certifications" section, or are those not "professional" enough?
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Oct 2, 2015 15:52
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I would. Recruiters/HR dont really read that far down anyway, its something you can point to and say "I am committed to staying at the forefront of technology and education" or some similar line employers like.
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Oct 5, 2015 00:10
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I have all of my Coursera certificates listed on my LinkedIn profile, but I have no idea how much difference it makes.
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Oct 5, 2015 00:14
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As someone who makes hiring decisions, I'd recommend it. The courses themselves may not be particularly valuable, but it signals to me you are motivated enough and are eager to learn more. That means you can learn what you need to be successful on my team.
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Oct 5, 2015 01:05
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gently caress yeah, all star profile and not even publicly available Gonna tweak a few more things and then put myself out there.
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I've read through the first few pages of this thread, got my profile up to all-star status, and have joined dozens of groups for local networking as well as my industry. I'm at a point where I want to start making connections with recruiters, but when I try to connect, I get asked "How do you know this person?" with no option to ask to connect randomly. I'm sure this is a basic question but I can't find instructions in the OP on how to deal with this. The only option that doesn't require me to jump through a hoop (name the company, or their email address) is to say that their a "friend," which doesn't seem right.
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Oct 8, 2015 02:28
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You select friend.
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I wish there was a way I could specify in my profile that I'm interesting in moving to/working in a different area than I currently live in, and do this such that recruiters could see it but regular people wouldn't. I don't suppose this already exists, does it? Surely I'm not the only for whom this would come in handy.
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Oct 8, 2015 06:06
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The "one face for the whole world" is also a large part of why linkedin is so successful
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I had a recruiter reach out to me on LinkedIn about several companies, including one of our competitors. He passed my resume on to their HR department and they wanted he said that they wanted me to film a video interview, however, I never heard from them. I reached out to my old boss who now works at that company about working there and he just directly passed my resume on to their regional director. The regional director then set up an interview directly with me for next Friday. The recruiter did not seem to know this and he told me thought they took the position down. The recruiter has asked me a few times on progress on setting up an interview. I'm not exactly how it works between recruiters and companies, he originally informed me of the position there, however, my old boss was the one that got me directly to the director to set up the interview. Do I need to keep involving the recruiter or is he hurting my chances for a job? It is for a PM position for a very large specialized construction company.
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Dump the recruiter. He knows nothing. You already have an in with the company. Now that you have the interview it's all down to you
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I'm trying to network on this linked in and have started applying for jobs. When applying should I post a plain-text resume in addition to my formatted pdf one?
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tubz posted:I'm trying to network on this linked in and have started applying for jobs. When applying should I post a plain-text resume in addition to my formatted pdf one? In general, I like delivering my resume in PDF form (as opposed to DOC or TXT) because it mostly takes care of the possibility of someone (or some application) accidentally mangling the formatting, having their window be too small, or having their cat jump on the keyboard and start typing gibberish or something. It's basically a lot easier to control how your resume looks.
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Is there a good way to indicate on LinkedIn that you're interested in relocating to a particular area? I don't want to change my location, as that would be inaccurate and a little too public, but I'd like to have something better than messaging individual recruiters.
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You could put it as part of your summary. I don't know how much it will show up in searches though
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ultrafilter posted:Is there a good way to indicate on LinkedIn that you're interested in relocating to a particular area? I don't want to change my location, as that would be inaccurate and a little too public, but I'd like to have something better than messaging individual recruiters. I'd change your location and then update your profile to state where you are today and that you're seeking a position in the new location. This way you'll show up in searches.
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ultrafilter posted:Is there a good way to indicate on LinkedIn that you're interested in relocating to a particular area? I don't want to change my location, as that would be inaccurate and a little too public, but I'd like to have something better than messaging individual recruiters. Cicero posted:I wish there was a way I could specify in my profile that I'm interesting in moving to/working in a different area than I currently live in, and do this such that recruiters could see it but regular people wouldn't. I don't suppose this already exists, does it? Surely I'm not the only for whom this would come in handy. app posted:I'd change your location and then update your profile to state where you are today and that you're seeking a position in the new location. This way you'll show up in searches. edit: apparently you can at least turn off the automatic notifications when you update your profile: http://www.job-hunt.org/social-networking/LinkedIn-job-search/managing-linkedin-stealth-settings.shtml Cicero fucked around with this message at 04:13 on Dec 13, 2015 |
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+1 for changing your location so you show up in searches. As you discovered you can disable notifications.
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Is there any way to get LinkedIn to stop recommending me jobs completely outside of my experience range on the dashboard? Or should I just ignore it completely. It keeps asking me if I'm interested in applying for Vice President of Engineering and I don't know if I can make it show me anything meaningful at all.
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Jyrraeth posted:Is there any way to get LinkedIn to stop recommending me jobs completely outside of my experience range on the dashboard? Or should I just ignore it completely. It keeps asking me if I'm interested in applying for Vice President of Engineering and I don't know if I can make it show me anything meaningful at all. I believe this has more to do with the posters of those jobs paying extra so they show up as "featured" or something. If you think about it from a business' standpoint, it makes a bit of sense to make sure your most senior positions that are open get seen as much as possible. But I could be wrong and this is another example of bad algorithmic matching on Linkedin's end too. It's also dumb from another perspective, since C-level execs most frequently get new gigs by word-of-mouth, not random mostly-untargeted Linkedin emails.
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Bumping thread. Hoping that means everyone has gotten a job though!
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Is there still that service that helps edit or build linkedin profiles somewhere? I've gotten most of this stuff setup, it's more like I would prefer a professional or possibly a business to do editing and suggestions since asking friends and family is delayed and rife with mistakes.
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It's a waste of time. The OP is really what a professional would end up doing anyway. Hell that Resume2Interviews guy literally copied your resume to your profile and added you to a few relevant groups. Save your money
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Thanks I'll just have to run it by a few people instead of a service.
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BERGfu posted:Thanks I'll just have to run it by a few people instead of a service. If you post I will review.
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