LinkedIn Questions & Answers

The recommender should be direct, comment on project you have worked on, and a brief summary of your work style

LinkedIn sends moles to invade your computer and they avoid admitting that they disrespect users.

DON'T use LinkedIn and don't upload your ID to them. LinkedIn is a monitoring website where past, present and future employers can monitor your information and what you post on there and discriminate or use against you.Most people don't land jobs on LinkedIn. And it should NOT be used against you for not using it- what does that have to do with anything? Your skills are not determined by a job seeking social media website. That sounds shady. If you use it DO NOT post or respond to anyone or anything or you can be terminated for posting things they don't approve of especially if you're a conservative. It's political and underhanded. The website is a social media job web but it's actually to see how you you are as a person.

The word on the grapevine here is that not only are hiring officers increasingly using Linked In to check out prospective staff, but that in a couple or three years, they'll move entirely to using Linked In instead of accepting paper resumes. Presumably candidates will be asked to submit their Linked In profile URLs, no other options. It makes a lot of sense from an employer's point of view; I didn't know this before but have been told that many of them already use automatic scanning software to relieve them of the time-wasting job of reading resumes at all. The software scans for the current relevant buzz words, words taken from the job description, layout and fonts and text sizes and so on. Apparently the idea really caught on when the software proved able to catch people who were simply copying the job description in its entirety into their "skills and experience" sections. And it can identify stock phrases and rule them out, leaving only original content, if any. I understand that any excuse is already used to dismiss resumes - even a margin set to the incorrect width will earn that piece of paper a trip to the WPB. Doing this is still consuming resources, though, and it would be quicker to simply scan Linked In which is already in an electronic format. If it happens, or when, this is likely to be a huge coup for Linked In. Maybe it's time to start saving up for the IPO?

Do NOT upload your Identification ( drivers license, passport, work ID etc.).it's a VIOLATION of your privacy and a high risk for identity theft. Don't use LinkedIn it's a monitoring website and your employers past, present and future can use what you post or say against you especially if your opinions and views don't align with theirs.

It is a platform for professionals to connect with each other but it is failing miserably because it doesn't deliver. There is a great deal of dissatisfaction with the product.