LinkedIn

[HoneyBadger]

Does anyone here use LinkedIn? I'm still working on building my profile, but if anyone here wants to connect and build your professional network, send me a PM.

[wctriumph]

PM'd

[kawiracer14]

Yes.

[mindfold]

What Field Of Work?

[ChunkyMonkey]

I removed mine due to solicitations.

[HoneyBadger]

What Field Of Work?

I'm in the space industry

[waxthis]

I removed mine due to solicitations.


This^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

[HoneyBadger]

I removed mine due to solicitations.

Removed your LinkedIn account?

[ChunkyMonkey]

Removed your LinkedIn account?

uh huh.. too many recruiters and marketing bs on linkedin.

[MarkCO]

I think I have had 3 or 4 recruiters and almost no marketing. Of course I only use it for business contacts.

[clodhopper]

ditto

[Sparky]

I have an account

[daemon]

PM'd...

[Aloha_Shooter]

If you already know me, you can find my LI account. If you don't, you won't. ;-)

[spqrzilla]

A true Honey Badger would not give a s**t about LinkedIn.

[MrPrena]

uh huh.. too many recruiters and marketing bs on linkedin.


This^^^^^^^^^^^^^^


I removed mine due to solicitations.

I was about to open an LinkyDinky Account before I even considered opening FB account.
I just thought I still get massive amount of door-to-door sales, to other sales job mail spam from Careerbuilder/monster/hotjobs. I didn't need another one.
I've heard others told me that they are getting massive door-to-door sales solicitation job to a guy who is looking to get a professor job. LOL
Therefore it was no go for me.

[johngraves2]

You guys should just change your settings so they don't contact you. I used to get tons of extra emails, recruiters, and marketing stuff and it got really annoying. So I just disabled all that stuff in the settings. I have my settings set so anyone can still request to connect, but I control weather i accept their request to connect.

[brutal]

You guys should just change your settings so they don't contact you. I used to get tons of extra emails, recruiters, and marketing stuff and it got really annoying. So I just disabled all that stuff in the settings. I have my settings set so anyone can still request to connect, but I control weather i accept their request to connect.

This.

I only get the occasional connect request from weirdo's I don't know and are >3+ connections away.

[JoeT]

My last 2 jobs came from linkedin contacts. and about once a month I get some type of real opportunity .

The key is to use linkedin for business and not make it facebook

[Gman]

The NSA already has us all LinkedIn. [facepalm]

[muddywings]

would it behoove us to ask the mods/admin to make a COAR group? I made one for my alum class year.
LinkedIn is how I got my contract gig which turned me into a lazy government employee--finally!

PM inbound...

[brutal]

would it behoove us to ask the mods/admin to make a COAR group? I made one for my alum class year.
LinkedIn is how I got my contract gig which turned me into a lazy government employee--finally!

PM inbound...

I wouldn't join a group that's associated with my private life. LinkedIn is a professional circle for me. I keep my work life and personal life separated online as much as possible.

[HoneyBadger]

The NSA already has us all LinkedIn. [facepalm]
Indeed, but I don't want to get a job offer from THEM...

[th3w01f]

LinkedIn is a great tool; I used it to find my current job and I've helped several other connections find positions using LinkedIn.

I don't get any marketing emails and it's pretty easy to control what kinds of email updates you get. I've never minded being contacted by recruiters and I always respond thanking them for reaching out. You never know when you may need a good recruiter. :)

I'm open for PMs as well.

[OtterbatHellcat]

This.

I only get the occasional connect request from weirdo's I don't know and are >3+ connections away.

Close to that for me....I don't see the benefit of it. If it works for you, great.

[brutal]

Close to that for me....I don't see the benefit of it. If it works for you, great.

Perhaps you misunderstood. Insofar as spam is concerned, I get limited spam and connection requests from people I don't know. I do have many connections, most are people I have directly worked with.

My take on LinkedIn is, for the most part, if you can't pick up the phone and call someone you're interested in linking with, you probably shouldn't ask. There are lots of people I've met once or twice, or know vaguely through someone else that I do not link.

[Aloha_Shooter]

I use LinkedIn to reconnect with people I worked with years ago but lost contact with or to extend the contact radius (i.e., make a connection with friends of friends). It's set up so I rarely get spam. As brutal and JoeT said, keep it professional, don't make it Facebook.

[HoneyBadger]

I use LinkedIn to reconnect with people I worked with years ago but lost contact with or to extend the contact radius (i.e., make a connection with friends of friends). It's set up so I rarely get spam. As brutal and JoeT said, keep it professional, don't make it Facebook.

Bingo!

[kawiracer14]

I got a year contract off of LinkedIN. I get no spam at all from fake recruiters.

[wctriumph]

You guys should just change your settings so they don't contact you. I used to get tons of extra emails, recruiters, and marketing stuff and it got really annoying. So I just disabled all that stuff in the settings. I have my settings set so anyone can still request to connect, but I control weather i accept their request to connect.


This ^^^^

I don't have any issues with Linkedin and in fact, it has worked to my advantage and seems to be working for me now as I look to make a change in my career path.

[DonnyCommo]

I'm on there for professional contacts. That's how I got my current job


Sent by a click click durk

[JoeT]

I used linked in today.

I'm in sales and have been working on a prospect for the last 3 mobths and have been unable to meet with the guy that makes the decision. I noticed on linkedin that one of my connections were connected to this guy

I sent an email/message to my connection asking about their connection and explaining that I've been trying to make and appointment with him. About an hour later I got a call from "the guy" who decided to call me based off a professional relationship with a mutual colleague.

The sale should be worth about $200,000 to our company and about $4,000 in my pocket

[DSB OUTDOORS]

I removed mine due to solicitations.
^^^^^ This. Just too much BS for my taste.

[OtterbatHellcat]

Perhaps you misunderstood. Insofar as spam is concerned, I get limited spam and connection requests from people I don't know. I do have many connections, most are people I have directly worked with.

My take on LinkedIn is, for the most part, if you can't pick up the phone and call someone you're interested in linking with, you probably shouldn't ask. There are lots of people I've met once or twice, or know vaguely through someone else that I do not link.

Poor sentence structure on my part, Brutal.

Meant "if it works for all you folks that use it and like it, great"....not you specifically, Sir.