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deanwebb

July 18, 2017, 12:02:45 AM
LinkedIn Job Roulette: A career suicide game?

In the July 18, 2017 Ask The Headhunter Newsletter, LinkedIn members reveal how they use the network to commit career suicide. Question Do you think LinkedIn has lost whatever promise it once had for people hoping participation would lead to job leads and better positions? Does it have any value now to the job seeker, or to the person seeking a better position than the one they currently have? Thank you for your thoughtful commentary. Nick’s Reply LinkedIn once showed promise as the leading professional network. Sadly, today it is at best merely an online directory. I think CEO Jeff


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Take a baseball bat and trash all the routers, shout out "IT'S A NETWORK PROBLEM NOW, SUCKERS!" and then peel out of the parking lot in your Ferrari.
"The world could perish if people only worked on things that were easy to handle." -- Vladimir Savchenko
Вопросы есть? Вопросов нет! | BCEB: Belkin Certified Expert Baffler | "Plan B is Plan A with an element of panic." -- John Clarke
Accounting is architecture, remember that!
Air gaps are high-latency Internet connections.

icecream-guy

#1
July 18, 2017, 07:22:35 AM
That's pretty funny.
:professorcat:

My Moral Fibers have been cut.

deanwebb

#2
July 18, 2017, 08:37:06 AM
Loved the snarky replies. :smug:
Take a baseball bat and trash all the routers, shout out "IT'S A NETWORK PROBLEM NOW, SUCKERS!" and then peel out of the parking lot in your Ferrari.
"The world could perish if people only worked on things that were easy to handle." -- Vladimir Savchenko
Вопросы есть? Вопросов нет! | BCEB: Belkin Certified Expert Baffler | "Plan B is Plan A with an element of panic." -- John Clarke
Accounting is architecture, remember that!
Air gaps are high-latency Internet connections.

Nerm

#3
July 18, 2017, 08:57:24 AM
I get what he is saying, but at the same time I do not agree with dismissing Linkdin as a tool entirely. Linkdin is how my current employer found me.

deanwebb

#4
July 18, 2017, 09:13:25 AM
Quote from: Nerm on July 18, 2017, 08:57:24 AM
I get what he is saying, but at the same time I do not agree with dismissing Linkdin as a tool entirely. Linkdin is how my current employer found me.

To be sure, it's a tool that can be used properly, once one has some education about it. It's no magic wand, not for the recruiter and not for the job-seeker.
Take a baseball bat and trash all the routers, shout out "IT'S A NETWORK PROBLEM NOW, SUCKERS!" and then peel out of the parking lot in your Ferrari.
"The world could perish if people only worked on things that were easy to handle." -- Vladimir Savchenko
Вопросы есть? Вопросов нет! | BCEB: Belkin Certified Expert Baffler | "Plan B is Plan A with an element of panic." -- John Clarke
Accounting is architecture, remember that!
Air gaps are high-latency Internet connections.

icecream-guy

#5
July 18, 2017, 10:57:16 AM
and ya don't go splamming every know-who asking them for a jobbortunity.

I wonder how many of these Bill Gates gets every day?

:professorcat:

My Moral Fibers have been cut.

deanwebb

#6
July 18, 2017, 11:03:59 AM
Quote from: ristau5741 on July 18, 2017, 10:57:16 AM
and ya don't go splamming every know-who asking them for a jobbortunity.

I wonder how many of these Bill Gates gets every day?


Enough to have people read his email for him and then forward the good stuff on up to a different alias that he reads.
Take a baseball bat and trash all the routers, shout out "IT'S A NETWORK PROBLEM NOW, SUCKERS!" and then peel out of the parking lot in your Ferrari.
"The world could perish if people only worked on things that were easy to handle." -- Vladimir Savchenko
Вопросы есть? Вопросов нет! | BCEB: Belkin Certified Expert Baffler | "Plan B is Plan A with an element of panic." -- John Clarke
Accounting is architecture, remember that!
Air gaps are high-latency Internet connections.

wintermute000

#7
July 18, 2017, 04:27:24 PM
I just got spammed today for a devops role. Not sure if I should be complimented LOL

deanwebb

#8
July 18, 2017, 04:36:48 PM
Quote from: wintermute000 on July 18, 2017, 04:27:24 PM
I just got spammed today for a devops role. Not sure if I should be complimented LOL

There must have been an acronym on your profile that means something else to developers from what it means to networkers that triggered his search filter.

Pat yourself on the back when you get offered a CIO role. I'm wondering if I put "I managed to keep my sanity" under my 11 years of teaching experience if that would translate as 11 years of management experience...
Take a baseball bat and trash all the routers, shout out "IT'S A NETWORK PROBLEM NOW, SUCKERS!" and then peel out of the parking lot in your Ferrari.
"The world could perish if people only worked on things that were easy to handle." -- Vladimir Savchenko
Вопросы есть? Вопросов нет! | BCEB: Belkin Certified Expert Baffler | "Plan B is Plan A with an element of panic." -- John Clarke
Accounting is architecture, remember that!
Air gaps are high-latency Internet connections.
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