Name vs NAME vs name
10/03/10 The LinkedIn Personal Trainer
Why do some LinkedIn users use nonstandard capitalization? They stand out – for the wrong reasons… Let’s talk about this for just a minute. The ALL CAPS fellow I’m not sure where, how, or why people do this – B..
How (and Why) to Leave a LinkedIn Group
05/03/10 I'm On LinkedIn - Now What???
I'm a member of a lot of groups… almost 50 (which is the limit). Some of them are awesome, others are beyond useless. One, in particular, ONLY has discussion spam. So I went to the Group page to get out – no more spam from th..
Inside Look: Designing LinkedIn Faceted Search
05/03/10 The LinkedIn Blog
Towards the end of last year, my colleague Esteban announced the full roll out of our latest people search tool – “Faceted Search”. I’d like to give you an inside look at the process, principles, and decisions that went into designin..
Does Anybody Know…
05/03/10 The LinkedIn Personal Trainer
It’s the classic opening from an individual who wants to meet someone. “Use LinkedIn” comes to my mind immediately. And here’s what I do when I hear or read that phrase… LinkedIn tells me… Yup – it&..
When Do You Update Your LinkedIn Profile?
02/03/10 I'm On LinkedIn - Now What???
I read a post on TechCrunch titled MySpace Lost Faith For All Things Mobile; Former VP John Faith Gone . (clever title Robin !) Check out this line, in the first paragraph: His resignation hasn’t been announced yet (nor has his LinkedIn pr..
Tungle.me integrates with LinkedIn to make scheduling meetings even easier
02/03/10 The LinkedIn Blog
Ed. note : This belongs to a series of posts on how web sites and services are integrating LinkedIn functionality using the LinkedIn API . Thanks to Marc Gingras , CEO and Founder at Tungle Corporation for his thoughts on the added value t..
TLPT Readers – Hesitant on Technology
02/03/10 The LinkedIn Personal Trainer
February’s poll results are in – most readers of The LinkedIn Personal Trainer wait to adopt technology. That’s right – 73% are middle of the roaders and wait to try technology until after it’s been around a bi..
LinkedIn for Blackberry – Not Quite There Yet
28/02/10 The LinkedIn Personal Trainer
Join me on the LinkedInPersonalTrainer.com to have a look at the state of LinkedIn’s Blackberry application. Well – that’s what I’d like to do… Demonstration units are always fun;-) On a completely unrelated is..
Receiving Unwelcome LinkedIn Mail
26/02/10 The LinkedIn Personal Trainer
“Steve, what’s up? Fred” Great to get – unless you don’t happen to know Fred… Then it’s an annoyance. Michael asked in an email if I’d address this issue – and that sounds like fun, so l..
LinkedIn Profile Critique: Thom Allen
24/02/10 I'm On LinkedIn - Now What???
LinkedIn for Job Seekers for $49.95 $25. Check out all the specials here . Thom Allen, a local friend, asked me to critique his LinkedIn Profile. On my LinkedIn DVD there are over 20 minutes of video where I critique five professionals' L..
I know that we’d all like to think that LinkedIn is populated with people who know and trust each other, but any time you make a vehicle for communicating with several million people for free, you’re bound to have a few bad apples. It seems that a common payment transfer job scam, this particular one propagated by “H & S International Limited” (see a Google search on the scam reports) has made its way onto LinkedIn. Here’s an image, as the link will probably be broken by the time you read this:
January 2nd, 2008 at 12:43 pm
I suspect we will see this more and more on LinkedIn and elsewhere. This morning on ABC’s Good Morning America, there was an article that suggested “Sites like Facebook, LinkedIn and MySpace that were once exclusively for social purposes are now increasingly being used for recruitment — and that will blossom even more this year. Employers are using these sites to promote their job openings, their corporate cultures and even their benefits all in an effort to encourage you to apply.”
First of all, I realize that Linked in wasn’t used exclusively for social purposes. Let’s move beyond the obvious . . .
Many corporations and recruiters use these sites, but are the sites accomplishing anything for those seeking jobs? In other words, corporations spend loads of money elsewhere promoting their brand to potential customers and employees, are these sites just another venue? Are they effective? And, what does the individual job-seeker get from all this?
http://carterfsmith.blogspot.com/2008/01/are-social-networks-really-that.html
February 10th, 2010 at 4:26 pm
I was looking for a Personal Assistant position in the Denver area. The scam came from ZBT, LTD, advertising for a part time personal assistant.