Has anyone landed job because they have a LinkedIN account?

[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.

[Lost User]

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.

[Member 11243814]

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.

[Roger165]

Landed a few thru Craig's List.

[loctrice]

I did land a job from LinkedIN. I got an offer from there, but I took a different offer. That's not LinkedIn's fault. I have a recommendation from a previous company there, and have professional contacts who validate my skillset. It shows how I know some people on there (i.e. working together at a company). I definitely think it's worth it. I get contacts from recruiters a lot there, but that's not big deal. It's like the officey version of facebook to me. Plus, you can search for jobs. The one I got the offer from I found from the linkedin suggestions. Plus, you can search jobs there.

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[MikeTheFid]

I'm not a big LinkedIn user, but I've had an account for a long time. I was invited last week by a rep from Amazon to attend a hiring fair in Toronto through LinkedIn. A move to Seattle isn't in the cards for me given my particular circumstances, but it was nice to be asked. My bosses keep endorsing my skills on LinkedIn --- to the point where I'm concerned their painting the porch in hopes a buyer comes along! :~

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[Slacker007]

All of you who are getting jobs from LinkedIn, are not settling down with one employer for any length of time. If you are moving up in salary, I can understand this, or if you are doing contract work. However, if you are jumping from job to job, and you don't have a good reason, then I would question that, as an employer. I don't live in an alternate universe. If you read all the threads to this post, there are some that find it useful and some that don't. I am at my salary cap for being a software engineer. I make extremely good money for what I do. So job hopping right now for me, is pointless.

[JamesIgoe]

I am not job hopping at all. My current employment is so far 2.5 years, which started as contract, but then hired. Before that, contract employee for 3.25 at UBS, and before that contract 2.25 years at Deutsche Bank. Recently, the CIO of the company I work recently connected with me via LinkedIn, and it is often the first place I go to connect with colleagues. I can look at someone's background before I talk with them to understand them better. Regardless of the recruiters, it presents your professional place in the world, even if you are a long-term perm employee. Some people will inevitably check out your profile and that will reflect on you. If you want to move beyond being a software engineer, it likely pays to groom your web persona. Do you want to get found by someone that wants you as architect or as lead or as development manager, which in terms of title is the step above engineer? Clichés about networking aside, contacts and presence still matter, both internally and externally.