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What if few people you've worked with are on LinkedIn?
manwiththemachinegun
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So I'm building my online resume with LinkedIn and trying to get skills endorsements. The problem is, most teachers aren't exactly tech savvy where I live, and most of whom wouldn't know social networking if it came up and stabbed them in the ribs. Of the six teachers I worked closely with, only one is on LinkedIn and I'm have trouble contacting him. I have a few letters of reference available, but I'm told they don't carry nearly the weight they once did. It's hard when you've worked in a field for 3 years and have very little you can share online.
I'm contacting other people for other endorsements, but teaching is the main one I'd like to pad. Any ideas other than going to the districts directly? So... how weighted are endorsements really? Is it better not to have a skills section if you don't have endorsements?
I'm contacting other people for other endorsements, but teaching is the main one I'd like to pad. Any ideas other than going to the districts directly? So... how weighted are endorsements really? Is it better not to have a skills section if you don't have endorsements?
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Recommendations are worth something, though.
Endorsements on LinkedIn are completely worthless.
So you would say keep it to contacting people at various companies/schools you want to work with and keep it there?
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As someone who works in a more client-facing business, LinkedIn is pretty cool! Whether it gets you a job or not, I don't know, but companies are starting to use it for hiring and other purposes, so it's good to be on it.
But I wouldn't stress too much about making your LinkedIn account perfect. Get a plugin that lets you post your resume on your page while you're looking for a job, and don't quit your day job (which, if you're unemployed, is looking for work or figuring out a way to make money).
my favorite was the (otherwise very good) summer associate candidate who i interviewed, and her fb profile came up, and the only thing you could see was her name, school, and that she was admin of a group called the itty-bitty titty committee. which obviously you can't bring up in an interview, even though i guarantee every interviewer saw that. but, two years later, i can barely remember what school she went to, don't remember her name, just that fact about her.
Disagree. I have had people headhunt me through linkedin.
10000% agree.
LinkedIn is just fine as a place to store an online resume. But watch out for the scam artists. Take job offers with a pinch of salt.
I've got "endorsement seekers" on my list who endorse literally everyone for everything, because they're hoping you'll return in kind.
The recommendations are also pretty worthless, because it's been my experience that the least capable people I've worked with have lots of recommendations, while the most capable don't have any. I assume this is because the least capable people are spending their time on linkedin when they should be working. :P
I'm guessing she wanted to buff you?
I don't do social media. The only one I had considered was LinkedIn. But purely for professional "networking" showmanship (putting things in place so months later I exist if you google me and people say nice things about me) ... which made me feel dirty for thinking about getting involved.
The only case that endorsements MIGHT mean something is when Bob the salesman has 15 years of experience in the field, has held numerous positions, and has 50+ endorsements in each category.
Any hiring manager that looks at a few endorsements and takes them for the real thing simply doesn't know how Linkedin works.
I've had my parents and other family members connect with me, as well as their friends who I've met a few times.
And they've done the Endorsement thing for skills I've put on there that I haven't used in forever. But now that those are endorsed, I can't remove them.
I get hit up by headhunters all the time, even though I'm not looking for another job and, AFAIK, have nothing that indicates that I am.
I basically keep it very barebones, because I haven't had much use for it.
I did solid profile when I graduated, worked for six months without changing anything on it, switched jobs and basically just added a description of the job I left and a few sentences on the job I went to. The update took like 10-15 minutes, and I keep a profile in two languages so I had to do everything twice. A month goes by and I get a call from a guy who found me on LinkedIn and wants to interview me for a job. I wasn't interested right now, but I've got the guys number, and if things go belly-up at my current lovely job, he's now the first guy I'll call.
That's an amazing time-effort-reward ratio compared to lead-generation when you're actually doing it actively because you need to.
That said, I have but a single endorsement. So they don't appear to carry much weight.
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It works well for job networking so I have to strongly disagree.
However other than for a place to display your C.V. and maintain a contact list I'll agree it is useless. Like the endorsements which are at best funny - being endorsed for technical skills by people you know hardly know what those skill are about is not uncommon thus the endorsements carry little weight.
In my experience LinkedIn is one of these things people are told they need to be on and are keeping up with imaginary joneses and like Facebook the amount of endorsements or skills you say you have really don't carry as much weight as those people might perceive, and half of them are probably outdated or were spam anyway. It feels like a sucker's game for those who are just outside the bubble of technologically literate or capable of doing anything on the internet and want to be seen as with it. The worst thing is meeting with someone for a project or meeting and then at the end they're trying to ask if you're on LinkedIn because to them another endorsement seems to be more important than the actual, physical job.
I'd think you'd be better off with a presentable facebook picture and nothing too incriminating there and simply uploading to a career based website. But I admit at this point were I the hiring person for my company, someone who had little to no online presence would peak my interest more because in this day and age it would appear like they are busy working instead of being glued to social media.
Don't you suspect that their real online presence is under another name? One of my Facebook friends uses her cat's name for personal stuff.
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I don't trust the desperate kind of recruiters that just spam you. Steer clear, I say. Though I do not have personal experience with them; others may know more.
My experience is exactly opposite. If you work in finance/accounting or law, everyone I know has had very good experience with it.
I know people in different fields (advertising and engineering) who have been contacted by recruiters, received job interviews, and subsequently gotten great jobs because of LinkedIn.
However, as someone in the teaching field, I don't think LinkedIn is as significant a resource for finding a job teaching. As others have said it is a good idea to have a good "Google" profile and LinkedIn can certainly provide a positive result for your name, but I think an online portfolio would do more for you. Moreover, I think that regarding endorsements, it is much more powerful to have a reference from an administrator rather than a fellow teacher (your internship mentor would be an exception and should be listed as a reference imo). If you are trying to teach I recommend just looking up schools and regional educational consortiums in your target area. Almost all school sites have an employment link. There are also teaching specific websites that are much better than LinkedIn.