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  • creepycoug
    creepycoug Member Posts: 24,284
    edited June 2014
    Hate to break it to you but it's here for a while. The recruiting calls have picked up again after a long while after nothing. Every company that called looking for interest screened me on Linkedin.

    My advice is to treat it the way colleges tell high school kids to treat their facebook and twitter accts: clean it up
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  • topdawgnc
    topdawgnc Member Posts: 7,839
    creepycoug said:

    Hate to break it to you but it's here for a while. The recruiting calls have picked up again after a long while after nothing. Every company that called looking for interest screened me on Linkedin.

    My advice is to treat it the way colleges tell high school kids to treat their facebook and twitter accts: clean it up

    Then they found out you were a fake.
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  • ApostleofGrief
    ApostleofGrief Member Posts: 3,904
    creepycoug said:

    Hate to break it to you but it's here for a while. The recruiting calls have picked up again after a long while after nothing. Every company that called looking for interest screened me on Linkedin.

    My advice is to treat it the way colleges tell high school kids to treat their facebook and twitter accts: clean it up

    it's amazing the bullshit people believe.
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  • creepycoug
    creepycoug Member Posts: 24,284
    topdawgnc said:

    creepycoug said:

    Hate to break it to you but it's here for a while. The recruiting calls have picked up again after a long while after nothing. Every company that called looking for interest screened me on Linkedin.

    My advice is to treat it the way colleges tell high school kids to treat their facebook and twitter accts: clean it up

    Then they found out you were a fake.
    not your most salient comeback sir.
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  • creepycoug
    creepycoug Member Posts: 24,284
    ApostleofGrief said:

    creepycoug said:

    Hate to break it to you but it's here for a while. The recruiting calls have picked up again after a long while after nothing. Every company that called looking for interest screened me on Linkedin.

    My advice is to treat it the way colleges tell high school kids to treat their facebook and twitter accts: clean it up

    it's amazing the bullshit people believe.
    I was thinking the same thing.

    blow it off if you want; it's your life. let's just put it this way. I see people WAAAAAY up the career food chain from me (and likely you) use it. if it's good enough for people who are where I'd like to be, then it's good enough for people like me.

    I don't have a social media platform, and I sure as hell don't use Linkedin for that purpose either. But you have to be a fucking moron to fight this and argue about spending just 8 minutes cutting and pasting from your resume and completing a profile. that's it. it's free and it's so easy a monkey could do it.
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  • Kaepsknee
    Kaepsknee Member Posts: 14,919
    Tequilla said:

    There's value in LinkedIn ...

    It's not entirely tied to people that are about to lose their job ...

    But fair point that activity level increases when people are thinking about a change (if you're not associated w/ HR)

    It's all about networking. I mean it's not like anybody uses Linkedin when they're drunk at the Coug.
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  • creepycoug
    creepycoug Member Posts: 24,284
    salemcoog said:

    Tequilla said:

    There's value in LinkedIn ...

    It's not entirely tied to people that are about to lose their job ...

    But fair point that activity level increases when people are thinking about a change (if you're not associated w/ HR)

    It's all about networking. I mean it's not like anybody uses Linkedin when they're drunk at the Coug.
    bingo.
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  • HFNY
    HFNY Member Posts: 5,513
    I use it to brag about all the art-history and gender studies degrees I have (but don't feel comfortable sharing that I'm $700,000 deep in student debt that the Federales financed for me).

    Not to fear, Obama is going to make it go away to win my vote and take attention off Deserter Bergdahl and the VA!

    Si Se Puede!
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