Has anyone landed job because they have a LinkedIN account?

jgakenhe

I created a Linkedin account probably 8 years ago. I started it for networking with former and present colleagues. Today, my profile is hidden. Linkedin is no longer a social platform as it was first intended. You cannot send people messages anymore, unless you pay for it. Today, it just seems like a place for consulting companies and head hunters to search for prospects. Amazon has contacted me several times through there recently, but I am not interested in working at a meat grinder. To me, Linkedin is just a place where I can nose around (of course in a different browser) and see find old friends, enemies, and judge their professional accomplishments.

Slacker007

jgakenhe wrote:

and judge their professional accomplishments.

:thumbsup: :-D

Amarnath S

HR Managers, HR Executives, HR <> are always on the prowl. Looks like LinkedIn is one of the least expensive ways of recruitment. Have been approached by several recruiters to become a connection; initially I used to respond, but of late, have started ignoring them.

Mike Hankey

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Camilo Reyes

I landed a good job with descent benefits through LinkedIn. I feel like it's a better platform than Stack Overflow Careers. At least in my experience, I only find shitty employers through SO. LinkedIn tends to have more established, reputable employers on there.

SoMad

I did not get a job through LinkedIn, but I think I could have. The recruiter who got me my current job is also on LinkedIn, but then again, I think every recruiter in the world is on there. My recruiter found my resume when I had it up on Dice. I took it down from Dice two years ago when I got my job, but I still get emails from recruiters all the time. My resume must have been reposted to other sites by someone, but I don't know where. In retrospect, I should have created a separate email account just for that. I often get connection requests from recruiters on LinkedIn. When I was looking for a job, I accepted them and communicated back and forth by email. They seem more focused than the hordes of recruiters an contracting shops that keep sending me direct emails. Soren Madsen

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Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

Nope, the case would be opposite. I have a LinkedIn account with probably 60 good connections, but I am more likely to even get ignored for a job landing due to LinkedIn. 1. Most of the job landings are like: - If you want a job, like the post and I will contact you. Yes, there are many cases where people ask you to like their status, or comment under the post to get hired. How does that help you? 2. Most messages are like, I have this cool feature, wanna try it? 3. I am building a network, can you work as {standing} on my network? The network is just named professional, there is nothing professional in it! Take my tip, don't create an account unless you want extra emails from networks. :)

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Duncan Edwards Jones

Yes

Ravi Bhavnani

I find LinkedIn useful. My LinkedIn contacts are people I actually know and am in touch with. Only 3 of my 500+ contacts happen to be recruiters. If you don't see the need for a professional contact service, you probably aren't missing anything and shouldn't bother using one. :) /ravi

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Joe Woodbury

I think that the recruiter who landed me my current gig found me on LinkedIn.

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Ditto. :thumbsup:

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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter

I got a few interviews (on phone), but turned them down, because I do not work via recruitment agencies...

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Munchies_Matt

nope, linkedin is a massive pile of useless crap.

Slacker007

I am of that assumption as well.

glennPattonWork3

Errr, I have one because it was recomened to increase my Social Media (?) presence get the odd job off in places like Jordan and the like. Recruiters like it, how ever it does not give you faith that they all look twelve years old! :omg:

Forogar

I got my current job after a recruiter saw my LinkedIn profile.

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R Erasmus

I will definitally recommend it. I get lots of agents making contact with me during the year offering jobs. I am not interested in leaving my current job so I haven't followed up on any thing.

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Greyze

My current job came from LinkedIn, got contacted by a company purely based on my LinkedIn profile. Most of my job opportunities and interviews have came through LinkedIn, I would estimate about.. 10% of jobs I've attempted to get came from various jobsites.

JamesIgoe

It is hard to say where recruiters find my profile, and then decide to contact me. I am contacted frequently by recruiters for jobs via LinkedIn, and it is one of recruiter's favorites, according to surveys. I looked at my last two (2) job's email trails and neither indicated from which source the recruiter found me. Even if I cannot pin down from where the recruiters, or their automations, found me, it would be ludicrous to not have a strong presence on LinkedIn. I have numerous online profiles - some of these I use personally as well as for career persona - LinkedIn, Monster, Google+, Twitter, FaceBook, Indeed, etc., and I would be hard-pressed to guess, but if you wanted to be found, LinkedIn seems essential, judging from the amount of email I get from that site. As for others, I do know of one person unemployed from the real estate mortgage industry for several years, that once he was on LinkedIn, friended or was friended by several thousand people, was employed and moved out of his girlfriend's apartment in a matter of weeks.

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If someone has, it may be by mistake! I don't know how many jobs I applied for and received no response until one recruiter told me that everything they were receiving from LinkedIn was unreadable garbage. I won't ever use it for job applications again. I will only use it for professional connections.