LinkedIn

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...

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Originally Posted by 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...

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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.

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Originally Posted by Gman

The NSA already has us all LinkedIn. [facepalm]

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Indeed, but I don't want to get a job offer from THEM...

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.

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Originally Posted by brutal

This.

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

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

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Originally Posted by Otterbatcat

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

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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.

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.

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Originally Posted by 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.

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Bingo!

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

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Originally Posted by 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.

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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.