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LinkedIn is missing a major feature, different classes of connections. Your network is meaningless when it’s full of recruiters as well as people you actually w

by Nursie 5y ago

LinkedIn is missing a major feature, different classes of connections. Your network is meaningless when it’s full of recruiters as well as people you actually worked with.

foolfoolz 5y ago
linked in doesn’t solve the networking problem. maybe i’m different but i’ve never reached out to anyone over linked in to “network”. if i needed to do that i would call, text, email. linked ins real purpose is a search engine for recruiters to contact you. your whole contact list could be recruiters and no colleagues and it would be the same website
- ghaff 5y ago
  If I don't know you and you call or text me, I'm ignoring and blocking you.
- Nursie 5y ago
  I infrequently exchange messages with old colleagues on there, people I have worked with but wouldn’t have on Facebook, and I may not have a personal email address for them.
snowwrestler 5y ago
I have rigorously only accepted connections from people I’ve actually worked with in some capacity. Makes for a nicer feed, but maybe that means I’m missing out on some recruiting opportunities? I thought recruiters could reach out to folks on LinkedIn without establishing a connection first.
- Nursie 5y ago
  They can, but they seem to want to connect too. I’ve never taken much interest in the ‘feed’ part, and view the site mostly as a tool for finding work, though I’ve not had to look for the last few years due to non-LinkedIn networking...