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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Ask/Tell > Business, Finance, and Careers > Job-hunting on Linkedin: Recruiters, Groups and Networking, oh my!
 
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Testikles
Feb 22, 2009
 Is it better to have a whole bunch of skills with no endorsements or not to have the skills listed at all? I feel like the lack of endorsements raises questions about my capabilities.

Testikles fucked around with this message at 22:11 on Jan 4, 2017

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Testikles
Feb 22, 2009

George H.W. oval office posted:

Endorsements are useless. The equivalent of Facebook liking. You want personal recommendations if possible

Even harder to come by. Is there a graceful way of asking people to recommend me or should I just hope for the magic to happen?

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Testikles
Feb 22, 2009

Positive Optimyst posted:

Thanks for the response.

My LinkedIn profile is honest as well as my resume.

But I don't wan't either to be too limited into the "Education industry" because I'm going to be looking for work in other fields (from non-profit to policy type things).

My prose is interesting?

Yes. Not to derail the thread or anything, but it sounds robotic. I'll wager that English is not your first language, so it lacks 'personality.' That and you tend to space out every separate thought, and you addressed the poster above you before beginning your reply. It's not how we usually format our posts. It sounds like you're writing an e-mail to everybody. There's nothing wrong with it per se, it just sounds unnatural.

Also how do you get yourself added to the stairmasters group? Do I have to PM one of you first? I tried joining a long time ago and haven't heard back.

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Testikles
Feb 22, 2009

Positive Optimyst posted:

Cheers for the honest feedback Testikles,

Actually, :), I'm a full native speaker and have written articles for magazine and newspapers.

I have over 100K+ posts on forums also.

I think my writing may come off as odd because when I post I'm in a hurry and multi-tasking.


As for Stairmasters, if you're not added I'll approve you, but I haven't checked out this gorup on a llooonng time.

Well shut me up!

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