Have you gotten a job on LinkedIn? Or, has LinkedIn effective marketing campaign persuaded you that having a profile on their website will make you appealing towards employers in your industry.
I would like to think that the latter clearly describes LinkedIn. As a college student I have opened my account and connected with friends that I have on Facebook. This social networking tool is redundant if you contact those same people on facebook.
But, in order to play devils advocate, LinkedIn does give users the feeling of being professional when posting information. It is clearly not a place to post wild drunken night pictures, or to create MySpace status's like @DMALL. But I am not sold on LinkedIn.
I will say it is a place where you can link with old coworkers who you do not want to reveal a lot of your personal life to, but in terms of jobs I have yet to obtain a job through LinkedIn. Additionally, it would be more profitable if I kept in contact with those professional coworkers instead of having them as a LinkedIn friends. In addition, a LinkedIn friend who may obtain updates on my change of profile, but would never hear from me.
In conclusion, I will keep my LinkedIn profile as it is a great way to brand myself as a professional. I will however probably only return to the site to add friends and maybe update my resume. I think employers are using this tool as another way to spy on you.
In the end, I don't expect anything great from this tool, but removed features found in facebook and myspace.
i.e: Another Limited Profile :D
I would like to think that the latter clearly describes LinkedIn. As a college student I have opened my account and connected with friends that I have on Facebook. This social networking tool is redundant if you contact those same people on facebook.
But, in order to play devils advocate, LinkedIn does give users the feeling of being professional when posting information. It is clearly not a place to post wild drunken night pictures, or to create MySpace status's like @DMALL. But I am not sold on LinkedIn.
I will say it is a place where you can link with old coworkers who you do not want to reveal a lot of your personal life to, but in terms of jobs I have yet to obtain a job through LinkedIn. Additionally, it would be more profitable if I kept in contact with those professional coworkers instead of having them as a LinkedIn friends. In addition, a LinkedIn friend who may obtain updates on my change of profile, but would never hear from me.
In conclusion, I will keep my LinkedIn profile as it is a great way to brand myself as a professional. I will however probably only return to the site to add friends and maybe update my resume. I think employers are using this tool as another way to spy on you.
In the end, I don't expect anything great from this tool, but removed features found in facebook and myspace.
i.e: Another Limited Profile :D
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