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Re:Jobstart – Personalized, expert guidance to land your nex... by dotBen on Wednesday June 24, 2015 @02:06PM (#9773350)
As a hiring manager, I use LinkedIn either to primarily source engineers or to validate the experience of an engineer that I found via some other means (open source project, coding event, etc).

To some extent, if you don't have a LinkedIn you don't really exist within the job market - which is fine I guess if you never intend to change jobs but might be something you do want to do some day :)

I'm actually curious why you wouldn't have a LinkedIn?

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Re:Jobstart – Personalized, expert guidance to land your nex... by brianpan on Wednesday June 24, 2015 @03:46PM (#9774029)
I have considered moving away from LinkedIn and designing an online resume. LinkedIn is not perfect, there are plenty of reasons you might not want to use it.

Besides finding engineers, what does LinkedIn provide you as a hiring manager that a resume would not? (Assuming an online resume or a pdf has links to company information, references, etc.) I can't imagine anyone actually puts stock in LinkedIn "endorsements" or "recommendations".

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