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Can you expand on what you do for adding content to linked in every day? And how does that help?

EnderMB 14y ago
I'd also like to know why, mainly because I decided to finish off my LinkedIn profile during a lazy afternoon and for the past couple of days I've had recruiters from Google, Microsoft and loads of other companies sniffing around my profile and on my website/github profile. Perhaps it was coincidence, or perhaps putting the right things in your profile tends to get you noticed?
- Vishnu3014 14y ago
  Would you give me an example of "putting the right things in your profile" ? Might be far-fetched but, if I could see an example of "Mr.X"'s profile, that would be great starting point.
  - EnderMB 14y ago
    In my case it was just a matter of playing the game. I added people that I had interacted with at my previous companies as connections, I listed any articles I've written, put up links to personal projects/sites and reduced my skills to a small list of strong skills. I also joined a few small but known groups related to my work and made a couple of posts. Nothing too special, just a few posts here and there to answer some questions. Finally, I added my Stack Overflow reputation and any "out-of-work" stuff I handle. Basically, going from 30% completeness to 100% completeness on my profile. A few days later I checked back on my profile and found that my profile views had gone from zero to around 10-15 a day. I tend to get a lot of recruiter spam on there but have had a few EMEA recruiters from Google, Microsoft and Facebook stop by my profile. No offers, but always nice to see people interested in reading about me.
    - thomaslangston 14y ago
      I'd expect that in addition to 'completeness' you're also landing at the top of the 'last updated' sorting as well.
      - wyan 14y ago
        Indeed. Every time I do any update, even if it's really minor, I get a bunch of visits to my profile.
      - EnderMB 14y ago
        Aha, that'll do it! I never knew that there was a "last updated" list. What worries me is that recruiters must think that this is a legitimate way to source talent...
PaulHoule 14y ago
add stuff to your reading list, participate in discussions, etc. this helps because people presumably (i) see your content and (ii) this helps you in search note two years ago I found that LinkedIn group were choked off by useless spam announcements and discussions. Things are much better now in some groups. Spam is still a problem in many LinkedIn groups, but it's the responsibility of the group administrators to keep it under control. Many groups are dead but many are worthwhile. LinkedIn lets you join up to 50 groups and you should take advantage of this fully. Of course, you want to join the best 50 groups so look for good groups and unsubscribe from bad groups.

I'd also like to know why, mainly because I decided to finish off my LinkedIn profile during a lazy afternoon and for the past couple of days I've had recruiters from Google, Microsoft and loads of other companies sniffing around my profile and on my website/github profile. Perhaps it was coincidence, or perhaps putting the right things in your profile tends to get you noticed?

Vishnu3014 14y ago
Would you give me an example of "putting the right things in your profile" ? Might be far-fetched but, if I could see an example of "Mr.X"'s profile, that would be great starting point.
- EnderMB 14y ago
  In my case it was just a matter of playing the game. I added people that I had interacted with at my previous companies as connections, I listed any articles I've written, put up links to personal projects/sites and reduced my skills to a small list of strong skills. I also joined a few small but known groups related to my work and made a couple of posts. Nothing too special, just a few posts here and there to answer some questions. Finally, I added my Stack Overflow reputation and any "out-of-work" stuff I handle. Basically, going from 30% completeness to 100% completeness on my profile. A few days later I checked back on my profile and found that my profile views had gone from zero to around 10-15 a day. I tend to get a lot of recruiter spam on there but have had a few EMEA recruiters from Google, Microsoft and Facebook stop by my profile. No offers, but always nice to see people interested in reading about me.
  - thomaslangston 14y ago
    I'd expect that in addition to 'completeness' you're also landing at the top of the 'last updated' sorting as well.
    - wyan 14y ago
      Indeed. Every time I do any update, even if it's really minor, I get a bunch of visits to my profile.
    - EnderMB 14y ago
      Aha, that'll do it! I never knew that there was a "last updated" list. What worries me is that recruiters must think that this is a legitimate way to source talent...

PaulHoule 14y ago

add stuff to your reading list, participate in discussions, etc. this helps because people presumably (i) see your content and (ii) this helps you in search note two years ago I found that LinkedIn group were choked off by useless spam announcements and discussions. Things are much better now in some groups. Spam is still a problem in many LinkedIn groups, but it's the responsibility of the group administrators to keep it under control. Many groups are dead but many are worthwhile. LinkedIn lets you join up to 50 groups and you should take advantage of this fully. Of course, you want to join the best 50 groups so look for good groups and unsubscribe from bad groups.