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I love this idea. I’ve found that it’s been hard for me to find a mentor. Especially one I can trust. As a software engineer, it’s hard to even understand diff
by peterchau 6y ago
I love this idea. I’ve found that it’s been hard for me to find a mentor. Especially one I can trust.
As a software engineer, it’s hard to even understand different levels when you’re early in your career.
I see that you can add your skills and endorsements.
Would it make sense for your product to pull this data from LinkedIn?
I know I wouldn’t want to replicate this info.
Best of luck!
- brauhaus 6y agoInitially, that's what I wanted to do! But then I found out that to get someone's skills you must accepted into a program of theirs called "Apply with LinkedIn". The whole thing sounded way too complex. I got the feeling LinkedIn was only interested in sharing that info if you were part of one of their revenue pillars (hiring, marketing, sales, learning). Now, however, I feel glad that I'm using my own Skill tables. We can now add stuff like Piano Playing as a skill. It may be not very "professional" looking, but imagine how cool it would be for team bonding if you could also find mentors for skills not directly related to your current job! For the endorsements, one thing I've heard a lot while interviewing users was that they thought LinkedIn endorsements were useless, like Facebook's poke button of yore.