Re: [PLUG] MS linux

[Fred Stluka via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>]

    Yeah, I hate that MS recently bought LinkedIn.  But it IS currently
    
    the only game in town.  Everyone uses it for business networking.  
    
    And yeah, employers will certainly be impressed by strong
    well-written recommendations.  Whether given TO you, or BY 
    you.  See my tip at:
    -
http://bristle.com/Tips/Career.htm#how_to_get_recommendations_on_linkedin
    
    Refresh your browser if you've been there recently.  I've been
    mailing that tip to individuals for years, but just today added 
    to my Tips page.

--Fred

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Fred Stluka Bristle Software, Inc. http://bristle.com

#DontBeATrump #SadLittleDonny #ShakeOffTheTrumpStink #MakeAmericaHonorableAgain

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On 2/20/20 2:00 PM, Rich Freeman via plug wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 11:27 AM Keith C. Perry via plug
> <plug@lists.phillylinux.org> wrote:
> > It is unfortunate but I would say that LinkedIn is a practically a
> > necessary evil.  I personally would not knock someone for not having
> > a presence there but quiet as kept I've seen people get knocked for
> > not having one.  Its so bad now that people are even using LinkedIn
> > instead of business cards.
> >       
> It seems a bit much to make it a required field, but really just about
> anybody applying for any job of consequence these days is going to
> have a LinkedIn account.  I'm sure anybody they'd consider hiring
> would probably have a github account as well.  Github wasn't required,
> and they had fields for other portfolio links/etc, and my guess is
> that if you listed a gitlab/etc account with great work on it they
> wouldn't look down on you for it.
>
> If it filters out people who are GPL3-only types they probably
> consider that a feature and not a bug.  Linus is definitely not from
> the RMS school of licensing in general.  I'm somewhere in-between
> those positions personally, but if you're the sort that won't touch a
> laptop if it isn't running coreboot then you're probably not a good
> fit for them.
>
> LinkedIn might not be completely essential if you're working for some
> really small company, but just about any big company has almost all of
> their employees on it.  I know a lot of managers routinely check
> profiles for job applicants there.  If you were one of 20 applicants
> for a job, and your resume was one of the top-5 interesting ones, but
> you were the one out of the five that didn't have a LinkedIn profile,
> chances are you wouldn't make it into the interview list, and you'd
> never know that was why.  That isn't to say that having a profile
> would have made the difference, but it might have.  Ultimately when
> you have more candidates than interview slots the manager is going to
> try to spend the least amount of time necessary to filter them down,
> and when they're looking for extra background to set candidates apart
> (like endorsements / references), then they're not going to find
> anything useful for candidates that aren't on LinkedIn.
>
> It isn't some big conspiracy theory, but business culture is a thing.
> If you want to do your own thing that is great, but you might very
> well be giving up a lot of money to do so.
>
> And I'm hardly the most suave businessman out there...
>
>     
    
  

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