ASK THE HEADHUNTER Will publishing on LinkedIn make me look like an expert?

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deanwebb

January 21, 2020, 06:03:05 AM
Will publishing on LinkedIn make me look like an expert?

In the January 21, 2020 Ask The Headhunter Newsletter a reader wants to be an expert. Question In your previous postings, you suggest that LinkedIn is a poor medium for applying to companies. (See LinkedIn Payola: Selling out employers and job hunters.) At the same time, building one’s reputation as an expert in their profession is a big competitive advantage while finding a professional home. Is LinkedIn an appropriate and productive medium to build one’s professional “brand” by publishing articles and making intelligent comments? Or do you recommend other media for this purpose? By the way, after reading your articles,


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icecream-guy

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January 21, 2020, 06:26:24 AM
only 3 letters will make you look like an expert

phd
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deanwebb

#2
January 21, 2020, 01:39:53 PM
Quote from: ristau5741 on January 21, 2020, 06:26:24 AM
only 3 letters will make you look like an expert

phd

It's easy to *look* like an expert.

Actually having the brains to *sound* like one is a different matter entirely...
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.

dlots

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January 21, 2020, 02:15:48 PM
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I will say that bragging on stuff you have done on linkedin can be a great way to build your "brand".  It got me my current job.

icecream-guy

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January 22, 2020, 06:01:45 AM
Quote from: dlots on January 21, 2020, 02:15:48 PM

I will say that bragging on stuff you have done on linkedin can be a great way to build your "brand".  It got me my current job.

I should re-engage linkedin.
:professorcat:

My Moral Fibers have been cut.

Otanx

#5
January 22, 2020, 09:04:22 AM
I just updated mine last night based on this. All I need is a good photo. All of my photos are either in silly hats, or with a cigar and whisky. Need to shave, and take one.

-Otanx
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