Linkedin endorsements
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Does anyone else think Linkedin endorsements are more like a virus than anything useful? When someone sends you an endorsement you are sent a message, which opens a list of seemingly auto-generated contacts, with random skills to endorse. If you click on "endorse" it will send emails to them all, and so it goes on. Surely, no one considers the endorement of any value since it is machine generated.
I just ignore them, and don't accept them. According to endorsement I got, I'm Java master and JavaScript expert. Yeah right. I don't know which one I know least and which one I hate more. Although I do like endorsing people for skills they hate, maybe it's just my desire for revenge :)
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Does anyone else think Linkedin endorsements are more like a virus than anything useful? When someone sends you an endorsement you are sent a message, which opens a list of seemingly auto-generated contacts, with random skills to endorse. If you click on "endorse" it will send emails to them all, and so it goes on. Surely, no one considers the endorement of any value since it is machine generated.
LinkedIn tells me (and my contacts) that I should be endorsed for several hundred (OK, that's an exaggeration) skills and technologies. I personally claim proficiency in only four. I appreciate (but don't expect) endorsements of those skills by others. I also endorse others' skills only if I have personal knowledge of their abilities. I also reject LinkedIn invites from people I don't actually know. /ravi
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Does anyone else think Linkedin endorsements are more like a virus than anything useful? When someone sends you an endorsement you are sent a message, which opens a list of seemingly auto-generated contacts, with random skills to endorse. If you click on "endorse" it will send emails to them all, and so it goes on. Surely, no one considers the endorement of any value since it is machine generated.
I was talking about those endorsements with a friend of mine recently. He had been out of work for quite a while, engaged many recruiters and attended a recruiter Q&A event. The recruiters all agreed that LinkedIn endorsements are a waste of time, but LinkedIn recommendations carry a bit of weight. Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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I was talking about those endorsements with a friend of mine recently. He had been out of work for quite a while, engaged many recruiters and attended a recruiter Q&A event. The recruiters all agreed that LinkedIn endorsements are a waste of time, but LinkedIn recommendations carry a bit of weight. Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
SoMad wrote:
but LinkedIn recommendations carry a bit of weight.
Interesting. I never publicly recommend anyone or solicit public recommendations. IMHO, a recommendation is an extremely valued and personal thing. If I recommend someone, I'm staking my reputation and integrity on a claim and consequently don't hand them out willy nilly. /ravi
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SoMad wrote:
but LinkedIn recommendations carry a bit of weight.
Interesting. I never publicly recommend anyone or solicit public recommendations. IMHO, a recommendation is an extremely valued and personal thing. If I recommend someone, I'm staking my reputation and integrity on a claim and consequently don't hand them out willy nilly. /ravi
My new year resolution: 2048 x 1536 Home | Articles | My .NET bits | Freeware ravib(at)ravib(dot)com
I agree with you, but will not go as far as to say I never recommend anyone in public. I have done it in the past, but mostly because I felt obligated to do so. Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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I just ignore them, and don't accept them. According to endorsement I got, I'm Java master and JavaScript expert. Yeah right. I don't know which one I know least and which one I hate more. Although I do like endorsing people for skills they hate, maybe it's just my desire for revenge :)
more from me | GALex: C++ Library for Advanced Genetic Algorithms
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I'm more of FPS person.
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I'm more of FPS person.
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The line is blurring all the time, one minute you're writing reports, the next using a general purpose programming language (ish), suddenly you find yourself attacked by a grue.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough." Alan Kay.
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Does anyone else think Linkedin endorsements are more like a virus than anything useful? When someone sends you an endorsement you are sent a message, which opens a list of seemingly auto-generated contacts, with random skills to endorse. If you click on "endorse" it will send emails to them all, and so it goes on. Surely, no one considers the endorement of any value since it is machine generated.
What about endorsements generally? I recommended a friend of mine to do a job I knew he had the expertise for and he agreed to do the job - the result was required in 3 weeks time. After 2 weeks he contacted my boss (to whom I'd recommended my friend) to say he couldn't do the job because he hadn't the time. I was in a highly embarrassing position. Since then, I don't recommend anybody, no matter how well I know them, unless I'm approached for a reference. I well remember applying for a job as Software Manager and when the Managing Director phoned me to offer me the job, he told me he'd had another application for a trainee post in the software department by someone who'd given my name as a reference and what could I tell him about this other applicant. I was really put on the spot as the friend of mine who'd applied for the trainee post was a great guy but he did enjoy larking about and as I was going to be his immediate manager, what could I say? I didn't want to block his potential future but I didn't want to land myself in a brand new job with a problem. All I said to my new boss-to-be was "He's capable of very good work". He was taken on and we had a really great working relationship, but it could have been very different!
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What about endorsements generally? I recommended a friend of mine to do a job I knew he had the expertise for and he agreed to do the job - the result was required in 3 weeks time. After 2 weeks he contacted my boss (to whom I'd recommended my friend) to say he couldn't do the job because he hadn't the time. I was in a highly embarrassing position. Since then, I don't recommend anybody, no matter how well I know them, unless I'm approached for a reference. I well remember applying for a job as Software Manager and when the Managing Director phoned me to offer me the job, he told me he'd had another application for a trainee post in the software department by someone who'd given my name as a reference and what could I tell him about this other applicant. I was really put on the spot as the friend of mine who'd applied for the trainee post was a great guy but he did enjoy larking about and as I was going to be his immediate manager, what could I say? I didn't want to block his potential future but I didn't want to land myself in a brand new job with a problem. All I said to my new boss-to-be was "He's capable of very good work". He was taken on and we had a really great working relationship, but it could have been very different!
Whether LI's endorsements, recommendations, awards, or constant stream of announcements actually do any good is eternally questionable. One take on the situation "historically" though, was that there was a problem that came up c. '89/'90 that meant no one in California was willing to give any recommendation. Seems (and it could have been an early urban myth) that there was a woman who had gotten a positive recommendation from someone, then turned around and sued them because of that recommendation, after she got the job because she decided she didn't like it. She apparently won that episode of lawsuit-terrorism, and it then became harder to get a recommendation in California than it was to find a rental when you happened to have a dog. "Now look what you made me do!"
If you've never thrown an exception, you're just sitting in the bleachers.