Re:What I Learnt From Reviewing 22 CVs
by PragmaticPulp on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @09:04AM
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I think you’re all reading way too much into people’s LinkedIn habits.
LinkedIn is a tool. Everyone uses it differently. You can’t draw deep conclusions about a person by trying to interpret nuances of their LinkedIn usage behaviors.
People like to draw specific conclusions about LinkedIn behavior that they think is a proxy for a good candidate, but 90% of the time it boils down to people selecting for others who use LinkedIn the same way they do. We all like to assume our way of using tools is the “right” way, and we all subconsciously like to hire people who validate our feelings and behave like ourselves.
Use LinkedIn as an online resume. An additional source of information. Don’t try to draw narrowly specific conclusions about things like their number of connections.
> I've worked with had horrible social profiles because they were concerned about making things and learning rather than social credits.
Having an up-to-date LinkedIn profile isn’t mutually exclusive with “making things and learning”. The amount of time it takes to write a few lines on your LinkedIn profile once or twice per year is trivial. I know it’s popular to be anti-LinkedIn right now, but it really is trivially easy to write a short profile in 10 minutes (30 if you’re a perfectionist) and be done with it. Recruiters and business contacts really do use it as an online resume.
LinkedIn is a tool. Everyone uses it differently. You can’t draw deep conclusions about a person by trying to interpret nuances of their LinkedIn usage behaviors.
People like to draw specific conclusions about LinkedIn behavior that they think is a proxy for a good candidate, but 90% of the time it boils down to people selecting for others who use LinkedIn the same way they do. We all like to assume our way of using tools is the “right” way, and we all subconsciously like to hire people who validate our feelings and behave like ourselves.
Use LinkedIn as an online resume. An additional source of information. Don’t try to draw narrowly specific conclusions about things like their number of connections.
> I've worked with had horrible social profiles because they were concerned about making things and learning rather than social credits.
Having an up-to-date LinkedIn profile isn’t mutually exclusive with “making things and learning”. The amount of time it takes to write a few lines on your LinkedIn profile once or twice per year is trivial. I know it’s popular to be anti-LinkedIn right now, but it really is trivially easy to write a short profile in 10 minutes (30 if you’re a perfectionist) and be done with it. Recruiters and business contacts really do use it as an online resume.