bump this thread every time you get invited to connect on LinkedIn

jesus

I'd accept that one, he's got a lot of followers.

i have never been to the website LinkedIn and never want to go, not even for jesus

i think it would probably be fun to troll the shit out of linkedin

"hey we met at a tradeshow"

i would have to do this fifteen times a day now

yah i was thinking like 'for people who are not on linkedin' didnt consider that the message was the same after u joined

And it sends you like SIX HUNDRED REMINDERS. FFFFFFF UUUUUUU!

Yeah those reminders are uuuuugh. *hello Spam folder*

i need to cancel my linkedin account. it serves no purpose.

yeah does anyone actually use this site for anything, anyone gotten any work from it

xp ^^^

(it might have had some use a couple of years ago, but the law of diminishing returns set in a while back)

Know people that have gotten work from it. Depends on the industry you work in, as some seem to have more of a 'presence' than others.

Got one last night from my dad who is a 68 year old retired chef obv in need of a professional network. I LOLd. Someone prob sent him one and he, thinking it was like another facebook, must have checked off something where it sent invites to people in his address book. ha.

vital networking opportunity 4 u

no doubt

No joke, I just got a LinkedIn invitation from

http://www.cdeuroxpress.com/images2/741157679427.jpg

(I contacted her manager about a year ago for work.)

awesome - I love her records!!

bump

i feel like i should get into this. someone tell me its bullshit.

its bullshit

if you want recruiters to contact you then u should do it

thank you

and yet...

lol

I just started updating mine because I really really need to find a new job and so I finally actually looked at the profile my dad has set up for himself.

G B*@%^#&t
retired at onkel sam

Linked in from Dad.

And a picture of a pug on a sun lounger?

lol i got a LinkedIn invite yesterday

Had a reasonably serious conversation with a work contact today. LunkedIn (typo, not correcting it!) is basically pointless unless you have already worked with the people you're contacting. And then you'd have their e-mail addys/other contact details anyway.

x-post - From my dad, no way!

no, not from your dad ENBB

had my boss from nightmare job from hell send me an invite º______º

" unless you have already worked with the people you're contacting. And then you'd have their e-mail addys/other contact details anyway."

not necessarily, I never keep those emails people send out when they quit jobs. actually these days people just send out linkedin invites when they quit to people they didn't connect to later.

haaaaaaacked

lol

i cannot help the feeling of "haha serves all those fuckers right for using linkedin"

Just changed my password. All the articles linked to on their home page are 'lol LinkedIn haXXored'

And I seriously don't expect to go back to the LinkedIn website again, at least not until the next time they screw up and leak all the passwords.

I just got a job copy-editing a gal's travel book after she found me on LinkedIn, so they're cool bros now in my book.

Granted, when she met, she thought that I was friends with people she went to college with (she graduated 5 years before I did), when they must have been connections of my connections.

Haha, so many typos in that post about getting hired as a copy editor.

my estranged father tried to add me on linkedin

I'm back on it, pray for me

If I bumped this thread for every connection, it would never leave the front page.

And now, these "endorsements" rolling in from people I don't even know… what sane person would rely on those endorsements to form an idea about a potential employee, promotion?

I just got endorsed by a guy I know from one of the Razorback messageboards. I'm ready to negotiate my salary now, Google.

A one night stand from my past (who I worked with in my early 20s) endorses me weekly on skills, very weird.

Must've been some skills!

A coworker at my newish job told me that our employer really prefers everyone to have LinkedIn profiles. I think I actually made a pfffffbbbbt noise at him.

Also, pro tip, if you are seeking any sort of benefit that hinges on your inability to work, make sure your LinkedIn profile reflects that inability, or lock that shit down good.

xp pp, I was definitely terrified when I first checked out what he had endorsed ;)

One thing I've noticed about the endorsements is that some of them are provided by linkedin, rather than by the users. Someone just endorsed me for Event Planning, which I hadn't included in my profile. The individual who endorsed that wouldn't have any reason to believe that I have that skill.

what does this site do? i keep getting invites but what does it do?

gets you jobs

looks like it's facebook without the drunken photos.

do people headhunt you from that site?

insider knowledge: yes big time

in that case cool although presumably i need to be 'linked in' with actual people i work with rather than just mates?

my ex-boss recently got a really good job via someone headhunting him on it. i always assumed it was something i'd never use until he told me this.

i'd guess the bigger your network the better, mates or colleagues.

the networking piece is of secondary importance from a recruiter perspective. linkedin have a great model where they give you a platform to share useful data ostensibly only with people you choose to and then they then sell that data to companies like the one i work for, in the guise of 'premium membership' levels

strangely timely revive, as yesterday i logged into linkedin for the first time in a few years.

and found that my dad has endorsed me 10 times

thanks dad

http://i.imgur.com/c4KTaAV.png

ok thanks i have now added one hope a job will come my way soon

I had to create a filter just for a former co-worker who endorsed by talents and skills every day.

I think he was wanting me to endorse him, but fuck that shit, he ain't got no skills.

I just set up an account recently after receiving various invites over the past year. I'm still not really sure whether it is worthwhile or what I should be doing.

What is the protocol around endorsing people's skills? Is it expected as a matter of courtesy or what?

ime it is an annoying way to remind people you exist by supposedly complimenting them

i've gotten a rash of endorsements lately, is that a thing? it's weird

I had to create a filter just for a former co-worker who endorsed by talents and skills every day.

I think he was wanting me to endorse him, but fuck that shit, he ain't got no skills.

I have received a "X has endorsed you for your skills!" email twenty times in the past ten days. I know they have that thing where it gets you to endorse four people at a time, but isn't that a little excessive?!

- an "X..." obviously. All from the same person.

My auto mechanic has been bugging me to link to him. Now, he and his shop are first-rate and I recommend them at every opportunity, but this seems like a strange use of the site.

"gamification"

I'll confess to doing something childish.

I went on my colleague's LinkedIn profile and it asked me to endorse him for X skill. So, not only did I endorse him for that but I added an endorsement I made up: Groovy. He then got an email to accept these endorsements, but didn't read all of the endorsements, only the legitimate one, and they were posted on his profile.

I did the same to my other colleague for Racketeering, Murder, Drug Trafficking, Abuse, and some other things.

All of us got a laugh :-)

uh

Groovy is a programming language fyi.

Point is the thing is broken.

haven't got a job yet :(

neither have I :(

i got one that resulted in a career and industry change

still no job :((

Hi dere Russian evening class teacher from 4 yrs ago

ha, fuckers

my god my career is gangbusters on linkedin

darragh m(a)c____ seems very insistent that i connect on linkedin. i would if i was actually a member, i swear.

lol soz i get crazy anxious that it might work so i blitz it every few weeks, i just dont actually get it is the thing

Got an invitation to connect with a guy whose listed job role is "Jesuspr3neur" today.

preneur m (plural preneurs, feminine preneuse)
taker; one who takes
a lessee, a renter

hasnt thought that through has he

O HAI my long-since retired uncle.

This has become pretty much useless. The only requests for connections I get any more (about two or three a week) are from product reps wanting me to spec their products.

I'm gotten some freelance work via LinkedIn, but that's about it.

Is there some incentive system for people who go around handing out endorsements on LinkedIn? I get odd endorsements from people I don't even know. Are they earning points to enter for a Florida vacation or something?

is an endorsement the LinkedIn version of a FB poke?

http://i.imgur.com/QMRHuk5.png

*swipes left*

it keeps trying to get me to connect with a person who has been dead since 2009 :(

for that you need medium.com