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I wish that LinkedIn had the ability to disable your profile. I'm not looking for a job, I'm not looking to connect with recruiters, and I really don't like th
by imroot 12y ago
I wish that LinkedIn had the ability to disable your profile.
I'm not looking for a job, I'm not looking to connect with recruiters, and I really don't like the ability for one of my exes to publicly see where I'm working so that she can continue to harass me -- on the other hand, My LinkedIn Profile is around eight or nine years old at this point in time, and I've amassed a fair amount of connections, that I'd like to keep should I need to start looking for a job anytime soon. I wish that I could disable it, hiding it from search engines, recruiters, and anyone else who's looking for it, until I'm ready to start looking for a job without deleting every one of my connections and starting over.
- dangerlibrary 12y agoYou don't pay for LinkedIn. You are the product, and allowing you to hide your profile makes you a less valuable product to the customers (recruiters). Until paying customers start complaining that their response rates are too low because there are too many inactive/unresponsive profiles, this won't happen.
- LoSboccacc 12y agoWhat I hate the most are the cheapskates recruiters that don't pay for premium and spam you connection request not being able to send direct mails. I don't mind being connected with relevant offers, that's what I signed up for. But then there are those low rate recruiters sending shotgun requests, asking for connecting and then asking me to do their job (you know, that'if you know someone interested' part) with mass request that are not even close to my listed skillset. I don't understand how people can benefit from employing them, if they can't even match skills too job most prospects sent to interviews will be a waste of time for both parties involved.