Can we please ditch the requirements for having LinkedIn?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I value applicants who do not have LI. They resist social media, reveal confidence in who they are, and can maintain privacy. Not having LI is special!

Are you hiring (serious)?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am the only person with my name (first/last) in the country. I stayed off LinkedIn for sometime but do occassionaly Google myself.

One day, one of the results was a LinkedIn profile with my name, hometown and profession; beyond those details, it was empty of content.

I created a "real" profle soon after, set to as private as LinkedIn allows, with the elements of my job history that are public. No information other than job title and my employment dates for career-relevant positions.

At the very least, for those with uncommon names, I would encourage claiming a profile.

Here's a better question - why was someone trying to spoof your account and steal your identity? How did they even know where you're from?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Old boomers wanna use paper resumes and rotary phones instead of LinkedIn

I’m Gen X and I want to use a paper résumé. I’m on LinkedIn and I absolutely hate it that it seems to be required. It’s ridiculous.

[Anonymous]

Reviewed 300 applications we got last week through a LinkedIn post. I have no idea whether these people have LinkedIn accounts or not and do not care either way.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My DD is a senior in college searching for a job. She and all of her friends and classmates use mainly Handshake and Linked In to find internships and jobs these days (well - besides the nepotism jobs ). Several of them search for recent alumns from their universities who work in the field or company that they are interested in, and they contact them to see if they would like to chat or meet for a coffee. We have one friend who got a job that way.

The young folks find it very useful for networking.

That’s how my kid got her job. A carefully crafted LI profile. She then intentionally connected to women alumni from her school who were 1-2 years older. Connected, requested a mock interview as interested in company. It worked.

To be brutally honest. I interview a guy same age as me yesterday with no real LI. He had one no picture, contact info, no posts and maybe 30-50 connections.

Mind you same age as me. But he shows up gray hair, little heavy, crooked yellow teeth, a suit from the 1990s. He used dated terms. I think he was fearful of age discrimination so no social media presence.

However, I am his exact age. I have zero gray hair, perfect teeth (should be for the cost) in shape, I make sure my clothes are modern and I know all the layers buzz words.

Jennifer Anniston, George Clooney, Tom Cruise aa we age perhaps get ahead of it.

I know I am not hiring a model but I at least want Men in Black meaning they are not noticeable.

Also this guy could have used a ton of interview tips and mock interviews.

If I was him first I would have got tips my LI connections.

Here is why LI is PRICELESS I had a guy I never met contact me last month about interviewing at my former job. I ended up talking to him on phone and I realized I still had list of interview questions with expected answers and HR sheet for that job. I sent it to him along with messaging a reference.

It is a powerful tool beyond belief. Your personal network is BS. I got a $200 an hour consulting job on it from a Luxembourg company and so many jobs over last 20 years.

Indeed or applying on line is a black hole.

J1/J2 guy is back!

[Anonymous]

Literally no company has this requirement.

[Anonymous]

LinkedIn is great. Main way to keep track of your friends, network and contacts when they change jobs, which can be every few years or more!

Also great for getting intros to others for references, advice, jobs, information, events, etc. Have been using it since 2005.

That’s fine if Op doesn’t work in an industry where that’s helpful or if Op doesn’t want to make a short profile. Whatever.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You have our resumes, what other info do you need? Why is LI ‘required’ by so many HR people, and why is it a ‘red flag’ if you don’t have a profile? LI is now extraordinarily invasive. There is too much info that needs to be put out there that makes it easy for scammers to steal your identity or try to phish/social engineer you or your bank. It’s also crazy how many permissions LI now asks for. Can we get rid of this platform already? It’s probably worse than Facebook and ruins everyone’s privacy.

Troll.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My DD is a senior in college searching for a job. She and all of her friends and classmates use mainly Handshake and Linked In to find internships and jobs these days (well - besides the nepotism jobs ). Several of them search for recent alumns from their universities who work in the field or company that they are interested in, and they contact them to see if they would like to chat or meet for a coffee. We have one friend who got a job that way.

The young folks find it very useful for networking.

That’s how my kid got her job. A carefully crafted LI profile. She then intentionally connected to women alumni from her school who were 1-2 years older. Connected, requested a mock interview as interested in company. It worked.

To be brutally honest. I interview a guy same age as me yesterday with no real LI. He had one no picture, contact info, no posts and maybe 30-50 connections.

Mind you same age as me. But he shows up gray hair, little heavy, crooked yellow teeth, a suit from the 1990s. He used dated terms. I think he was fearful of age discrimination so no social media presence.

However, I am his exact age. I have zero gray hair, perfect teeth (should be for the cost) in shape, I make sure my clothes are modern and I know all the layers buzz words.

Jennifer Anniston, George Clooney, Tom Cruise aa we age perhaps get ahead of it.

I know I am not hiring a model but I at least want Men in Black meaning they are not noticeable.

Also this guy could have used a ton of interview tips and mock interviews.

If I was him first I would have got tips my LI connections.

Here is why LI is PRICELESS I had a guy I never met contact me last month about interviewing at my former job. I ended up talking to him on phone and I realized I still had list of interview questions with expected answers and HR sheet for that job. I sent it to him along with messaging a reference.

It is a powerful tool beyond belief. Your personal network is BS. I got a $200 an hour consulting job on it from a Luxembourg company and so many jobs over last 20 years.

Indeed or applying on line is a black hole.

Happy to not work for you!

[Anonymous]

I know of no such company. I have never heard of a linkedin requirement.

[Anonymous]

LinkedIn is for losers who love to talk in work jargon but don’t actually do much.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:LinkedIn is for losers who love to talk in work jargon but don’t actually do much.

It’s really just for people who are marketing their skills and trying to break into new roles. If you’re at the top already, your network works for you.

It’s also a fairly useful place for organizations to engage with certain members of the public, unlike the app formerly known as twitter. I would like it if the algorithm was a little more chronological for that kind of thing though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I hate LinkedIn. It's a waste of time.

+100.

[Anonymous]

You do realize the best jobs are not posted they recruit you. LinkedIn is how they find you.

[Anonymous]

My friend who does online background investigations loves Linked In. Rich source of info to investigate.

As a result, does not have one herself.