Stop Using LinkedIn

Re:Stop Using LinkedIn by hamitron on Friday February 13, 2015 @12:56PM (#9045773)

I am actually working on an alternative that would basically just be a resume API. This is nothing but good news for me.

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Re:Stop Using LinkedIn by gpi5 on Friday February 13, 2015 @03:55PM (#9047131)

One of LinkedIn strength is related to accessing your network though. Being able to have a sense of who does what and when is the only reason why I'm sill on their site. Any plan to have something similar?

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Re:Stop Using LinkedIn by boomzilla on Friday February 13, 2015 @01:13PM (#9045954)

How would you validate the resumes? The power of LinkedIn is in the trust it establishes. Granted I still have a lot of validation to do before hiring/doing business with someone, but Linkedin is a great first filter. I know for software engineers, Github could be a better filter, but it's just a very small segment in the world of business.

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Re:Stop Using LinkedIn by sergiotapia on Friday February 13, 2015 @01:43PM (#9046213)

"The power of LinkedIn is in the trust it establishes."

I feel the complete opposite way. I've had people claim I know PHP on my profile when I've never used PHP in my life. That's endorse stuff is major baloney. How can you trust that when anybody can just click Endorse for whatever they want?

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Re:Stop Using LinkedIn by praneshp on Friday February 13, 2015 @01:58PM (#9046350)

Very true. I have endorsements in C++ from my auto insurance guy, which doesn't make any sense either.

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Re:Stop Using LinkedIn by pimlottc on Friday February 13, 2015 @01:46PM (#9046234)

> I know for software engineers, Github could be a better filter

For some engineers. There are many, many excellent developers who don't spend much time on Github. John Carmack doesn't even have an account, for example...

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Re:Stop Using LinkedIn by dkarapetyan on Friday February 13, 2015 @01:39PM (#9046180)

Validate the resume? What does that mean?

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Re:Stop Using LinkedIn by Throwaway1224 on Friday February 13, 2015 @02:42PM (#9046705)

a lot of companies won't even look at you unless your resume/work history is on linkedin.

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Re:Stop Using LinkedIn by 27182818284 on Friday February 13, 2015 @04:18PM (#9047260)

I've never seen this done. I'd love examples for companies. Social media often augments folks, but I've never seen someone rejected for not having a LinkedIn.

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Re:Stop Using LinkedIn by danielweber on Friday February 13, 2015 @04:28PM (#9047328)

That's as silly as companies that only look at your Github.

I.e., I'm sure someone out there does it, but they are dumb.

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Re:Stop Using LinkedIn by lucaspiller on Friday February 13, 2015 @07:32PM (#9048129)

A company I worked for started outsourcing a lot of its work to a certain Asian country last year. One of the issues we had when trying to recruit people is that they will just blatantly lie about their experience on their CV. Asking for a GitHub profile was an easy way to backup their claims, with minimal time wasted on my side - at least until they cotton on and start putting fake projects there.

(Admitidely trying to outsource work just to save money was dumb, but it wasn't my decision, so I had to make do)

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Re:Stop Using LinkedIn by dkarapetyan on Friday February 13, 2015 @02:42PM (#9046716)

Which companies are those? I've never had a problem getting jobs and interviews without a linkedin account.

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Re:Stop Using LinkedIn by edoceo on Friday February 13, 2015 @02:11PM (#9046463)

I've built a small tool to aggregate profiles together and I use it for my hiring. It builds a profile that is a bit more useful than LI. http://ars.io

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