Do You Have a Profile on LinkedIn?

[TalonStrike]

Do you? Have any of you had employers contact you through this website? Have you actually gotten an offer an accepted it through LinkedIn?

 

[gorcorps]

yes and yes

Not looking for a job though so I turn down employers and head hunters, but a few buddies have gone a bit further and got offers.

 

[yllus]

I have a 100% complete profile on it; I get about one request a week from recruiters looking to fill software developer positions.

 

[TalonStrike]

I have a 100% complete profile on it; I get about one request a week from recruiters looking to fill software developer positions.

neat. I might create a profile soon. Do you have to provide your personal information on their like your phone number and e-mail address? I want employers to be able to contact me, but I don't want random people on the internet to have access to my information like that.

 

[jingramm]

yes I have one but I never get contacted for jobs directly.

Is it because I don't have a 100% complete profile with all the duties and responsibilities under each job?

I joined membership groups but they are useless.

 

[TalonStrike]

yes I have one but I never get contacted for jobs directly.

Is it because I don't have a 100% complete profile with all the duties and responsibilities under each job?

I joined membership groups but they are useless.

what type of job field are you in? IT?

 

[BoomerD]

no


no

 

[yllus]

neat. I might create a profile soon. Do you have to provide your personal information on their like your phone number and e-mail address? I want employers to be able to contact me, but I don't want random people on the internet to have access to my information like that.

100% of people contacting me have done so through LinkedIn's built-in private messaging system. I don't have my phone number on the site. I don't think my e-mail address is listed either, but I don't mind doing so - spam software is sophisticated enough these days that I'm not worried about that sort of problem anymore.

yes I have one but I never get contacted for jobs directly.

Is it because I don't have a 100% complete profile with all the duties and responsibilities under each job?

I joined membership groups but they are useless.

I had my profile up for more than a year at 80% completion - meaning no duties/responsibilites listed for the places I've been employed - and got next to no contacts. In the three or four months since getting to 100% completion, it's almost too much interest.

 

[dennilfloss]

I haven't fullly enabled my profile as I'm not looking for work but I do contribute to the paleontology group.

 

[her209]

I had one but I didn't create it. Then it magically disappeared.

 

[Dedpuhl]

Yes. No.

 

[RichieZ]

yes, i worked there for 3 years

no, i get contacted all the time but have always found my opportunities through my own network - silicon valley is a small place

 

[Bignate603]

Yes, I've got a profile.

I actually got a really good contact through it in December. I started doing the phone interview process and this past Friday they told me they were going to fly me out to do the on site interview.

I wouldn't recommend it as your ONLY way of looking for a job but it isn't bad in addition to other things.

 

[alkemyst]

I don't get job offers, but I get those looking to network.

 

[Demo24]

Interesting replies, which encourages me to fill it out since I've only very basic info up on it right now. Looking for a job so anything that might help would be good!

 

[ViviTheMage]

si

 

[Q]

I do, though I haven't done the 100% thing -- I don't want to ask someone for a recommendation, that's really awkward.

 

[Rage187]

Yes and yes

 

[Michael]

Yes and I get high level contacts for job opportunities through it all the time. Either looking for me or seeking to network through me for recommendations.

Michael

 

[chusteczka]

I have a profile but do not get any job offers. My completeness is at 80% and my job title is owner/partner of a small unknown company without any sales focused on developing some patents; so I am not looking for a job anyway.

A friend went through a recommendation phase where he gave recommendations to all his co-workers and many of them gave him recommendations in return. Within a couple weeks, he accumulated 9 positive reviews.

These reviews worked for him since he recently obtained a position with a new technical company with a position titled "Director of Sales".

 

[TalonStrike]

Is it possible to list referrals from people that do not have LinkedIn profiles?

 

[jessieqwert]

Two of 'em. My job depends on it

 

[Gibson486]

yes I have one but I never get contacted for jobs directly.

Is it because I don't have a 100% complete profile with all the duties and responsibilities under each job?

I joined membership groups but they are useless.

Do not get me started. I joined an electrical engineering group. It was just a bunch of non native people saying, "I, <some hard to pronounce name>, have bs engineering in electrical, have 4.2 year in electrica field. I have interest in position. Please find my profile."
The worst thing about it is that lots of times they are not even responding to a job post.

 

[Imp]

Yes, no, and no.

Made one partly because I found a really close friend on there I lost contact with, and partly to whore myself out on the internet. Most of my profile is open, and it comes up when you Google. Luckily, there are 5 people in the same city that share my name...

 

[masteryoda34]

Do you? Have any of you had employers contact you through this website? Have you actually gotten an offer an accepted it through LinkedIn?

Yes, yes, and yes. I highly recommend LinkedIn. In the future I think employees and recruiters will all go to LinkedIn as automatically as people today use Google for search.

I got the job I am currently in because the recruiter searched for the relevant skills and found my profile. He contacted me (I wasn't even looking for work) and I took the position.