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> "unless your profile is exceptional for some reason, it probably does more harm than good" Isn't this true of your resume as well? What makes LinkedIn any wo

> "unless your profile is exceptional for some reason, it probably does more harm than good" Isn't this true of your resume as well? What makes LinkedIn any worse than a public resume? And if you don't have a good resume, that's totally fine, many companies will still call you in for an interview, however the companies that have a long queue of interviews, will use those resume for discriminating between potential candidates and there's no way around that. If your online profile isn't good, then improve your online profile. Work on some public projects, write a blog, read some marketing books and apply that knowledge. And on LinkedIn ... actively ask your former colleagues to recommend you on LinkedIn. People writing words about you is the best kind of endorsement you can get. Don't be ashamed of asking for it.

viraptor 6y ago
I'm not sure what the author means by this, but my view is that unless you're good enough to get the recruitment people you'd like to see, you'll only get low quality messages that waste your time.
- bad_user 6y ago
  I have some experience on being recruited. Most of the messages you receive are indeed junk. But that's not the value of LinkedIn. The value is being connected and receiving recommendations from your current or former colleagues. That's not something you can easily maintain on your own. And if you want to be recruited, then you have to actively improve your profile and even to actively seek a job — this means maintaining relationships with capable recruiters that can filter out the junk for you, or even contacting the companies that you like directly. And in both cases having an up to date online profile helps. In other words a combination of outbound and inbound marketing. LinkedIn can help with both, or it might not help, but passively receiving messages from recruiters is not the provided value. Due to the supply and demand curve, software developers have gotten lazy, but marketing is a soft skill we should all learn.

viraptor 6y ago

I'm not sure what the author means by this, but my view is that unless you're good enough to get the recruitment people you'd like to see, you'll only get low quality messages that waste your time.

bad_user 6y ago
I have some experience on being recruited. Most of the messages you receive are indeed junk. But that's not the value of LinkedIn. The value is being connected and receiving recommendations from your current or former colleagues. That's not something you can easily maintain on your own. And if you want to be recruited, then you have to actively improve your profile and even to actively seek a job — this means maintaining relationships with capable recruiters that can filter out the junk for you, or even contacting the companies that you like directly. And in both cases having an up to date online profile helps. In other words a combination of outbound and inbound marketing. LinkedIn can help with both, or it might not help, but passively receiving messages from recruiters is not the provided value. Due to the supply and demand curve, software developers have gotten lazy, but marketing is a soft skill we should all learn.