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The problem's even worse than the article says. Several people from my company's cloud services division have endorsed me as an expert in cloud computing (abou
by CWuestefeld 14y ago
The problem's even worse than the article says.
Several people from my company's cloud services division have endorsed me as an expert in cloud computing (about which I know very little). It appears that simply my putative expertise, combined with my relationship with them, is designed to make potential customers feel better disposed to them when those customers looks to see how much expertise our cloud people are surrounded with.
So there are incentives all over the place that cause this thing to be misused.
- 11001 14y agoMy girlfriend endorsed my SQL skills yesterday because linkedin suggested she might want to. She is a social worker.
- Aloisius 14y agoBut you have to put the skill in your list of skills for them to endorse you. Why would you add a skill that you know very little of in the first place?
- CWuestefeld 14y agoApparently it's not true that it must pre-exist in the list. (A) I never even knew there was a skill endorsement system; (B) I never listed a skill of "cloud computing".
- Aloisius 14y agoI don't see any way to add skills to anyone I'm connected to. AFAICT, everything in there originally came from the old "skills" section of your profile. At least mine did.
- FigBug 14y agoI think the list was initially pre populated from your profile. It's not clear from the UI, but you can add skills to people, just start typing in the box after the last tag. A lawyer has endorsed me for Objective-C and Subversion. I'm sure that's trust worthy.