Is LinkedIn Cheating Employers and Job Seekers Alike?

Re:Is LinkedIn Cheating Employers and Job Seekers Alike? by hga on Wednesday August 14, 2013 @02:54PM (#6213477)

I'd assume that's for recruiters, and that what you see in the incognito window is to give them a taste (perhaps they have governors to limit how much can be found per unit of time).

Not being that sort of recruiter I've only ever wanted to see that kind of thing to confirm if a particular "John Doe" is the one I'm thinking of before asking to connect to him, and personalizing the note takes care of that well enough. Otherwise I can see the profiles of people in my network just fine.

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Re:Is LinkedIn Cheating Employers and Job Seekers Alike? by minouye on Wednesday August 14, 2013 @03:23PM (#6213636)

I'm definitely not a recruiter and LinkedIn could easily extrapolate that from my resume. Say for example I just want to do some due diligence on a contractor (or business associate or company exec. or whatever). I don't want to connect, just see their qualifications, general background, etc.

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Re:Is LinkedIn Cheating Employers and Job Seekers Alike? by hga on Wednesday August 14, 2013 @03:55PM (#6213820)

Ah, I didn't mean to suggest you were a "recruiter", although the examples you gave could be part of the recruiting function, and it wouldn't be unreasonable for LinkedIn to want some money from your to do perform such due diligence. It would be interesting to see if they've got an account level for that sort of small scale thing.

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