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Does anyone have any alternatives to LinkedIn? I think it plays a function that's useful, particularly the floating, easily discoverable resumes you can point p
by scarmig 13y ago
Does anyone have any alternatives to LinkedIn? I think it plays a function that's useful, particularly the floating, easily discoverable resumes you can point people at plus recommendations. But the cons just drastically reduce its overall value well below zero.
The resume aspect is easy enough to host yourself, and the searchability is not clearly an overall pro anyways: I really don't want to be harassed by random recruiters who found me using a keyword search.
But would it be weird to host your recommendations of others on your own site? I.e. include a link to some canonical representation of their identity and vouch for them? That may be getting into the weird territory. And what about hosting their recommendations of you? That seems well into the weird territory.
Maybe the best thing that LinkedIn offers is a willingly creepy networking site that gives you an excuse to ignore social norms.
- stephengillie 13y agoWhat you're describing reminds me of the never-launched social network Diaspora, but for business. Would someone be interested in trying to launch a Diaspora-nee-Linkedin?
- driverdan 13y agoHow is it weird to get recommendations from other people? That's pretty normal. Posting them on a website might seem unusual for individuals but companies do it all the time.
- scarmig 13y agoIt's the posting on a personal website that sets off my awkwardness meter. I think recommendations in general, though, are quite useful.
- anaphor 13y agohttp://careers.stackoverflow.com/ http://careers.stackoverflow.com/
- dreen 13y agoThis. My LinkedIn profile contains only thing: "To see my current online profile, please visit http://..." http://..." (link to careers.so) I lost my first job after uni three months ago and started looking. People told me I'm severely limiting my chances by not having a full LinkedIn profile. They were wrong, I found an amazing job and the bulk of interview offers came from people seeing my SO, C.SO or GitHub profiles. C.SO doesnt have all the meaningless social bullshit, also top companies and recruiters pay a lot of money to just use their search engine. Also, all LinkedIn mail gets redirected to the bin.