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If you watch your LinkedIn profile, you can tell two things, based on my observations: People only update their profile on LinkedIn when they are looking for a
by gacba 16y ago
If you watch your LinkedIn profile, you can tell two things, based on my observations:
People only update their profile on LinkedIn when they are looking for a new job, or just lost a job (for the most part). Some keep tweaking it all the time, but you can spot the ones who never have activity and then suddenly have 7 updates...you know something's cooking there.
You can spot general trends about economic activity, assuming your friends are geospatially similar. If, suddenly, you get spikes in activity where none existed a month ago, you can assume that the job market in your area is getting very turbulent. You can decide whether it's positive or negative based on what you see ("Hey I got a new job", or just plain profile updates while someone is looking...)
Very interesting.
- biot 16y agoA guy at work has a 100% prediction rate for when people are about to (voluntarily) leave the company. And it's as simple as "this person never updates their profile, and the last few weeks they're updating everything in it". It'd be interesting to find out if someone has used this as a negotiation tactic. It would likely only work if you're recognized as a rockstar employee, but a few weeks before you talk to your boss to negotiate a salary increase, be sure to routinely update your LinkedIn profile. At the very least, if your boss gets LinkedIn updates it'll make them think twice before using the "He/she wouldn't quit if I don't give them a raise" line of justification for denying a raise.