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People love to hate the endorsement system, but I have found that while I get endorsements from people who clearly aren't qualified to asses my skills, it still
by troels 13y ago
People love to hate the endorsement system, but I have found that while I get endorsements from people who clearly aren't qualified to asses my skills, it still ends up such that my most-endorsed skills are actually fairly close to reality. As a recruiter you'd be foolish to use this at face value, but for doing a rough search to narrow down candidates, I don't think it's way off.
- victoriap 13y agoDue to the way LinkedIn asks people about endorsing others, endorsers are usually people who are very kind to you, like your mom, your close friends, relatives.
- troels 13y agoSure, there's a lot of noise in there. What I mean is that given enough endorsements, you kind of tend to get most endorsements in the skills you actually work with. It does not say much about how well you perform in those, but for searching out potential candidates, I imagine that it's fairly accurate.