LinkedIn is a waste of time! (for networking)
People use LinkedIn as a virtual Rolodex and that’s about it. If you “connect” with random people thinking they’re going to help you, they won’t. No one checks their messages on a regular basis. Don’t connect after you interview with someone. An interview doesn’t denote a valid connection in the corporate world. If you can’t call the person up to grab a drink or coffee, don’t waste your time adding them on LinkedIn. TWICE it’s happened to me where I saw I had a “2nd Degree Connection” at a company I was looking to apply at. So I contacted my acquaintance/friend who supposedly knew them. One had just interviewed with the person and they didn’t offer him the job. Yet he still connected with them online?? That’s like getting rejected by a girl at a bar, going home and sending her a Facebook friend request… Where’s the dignity? The other knew the guy from like junior high and hadn’t talked to him since. GREAT connection LinkedIn! Connecting professional strangers.
How LinkedIn IS used…
HR and Head-Hunters use LinkedIn. HR will check to make sure you are competent enough to maintain a professional online presence and that it lines up with the resume you give them. LinkedIn is the best thing that has ever happened for Head-Hunters! They search for the qualifications the job calls for thousands of names pop up. Even they don’t ask to connect though. I’ve had 50/50 where they’ll either send me a LinkedIn message or call me and tell me they saw my LinkedIn profile. None had anything good to offer.
Customers use LinkedIn. I know a Private Wealth/Financial Advisor who thought LinkedIn was a waste of time so he didn’t create one. A potential client he had met with tried to look him up and didn’t find him. She told him that she didn’t believe he could be a good money manager if he couldn’t manage an online profile! Customers view your LinkedIn like an online dating site. They want to see where you’ve been, what you’ve done and what you’re doing before they get into bed with you.
Following a company gives you an easy way to keep up on the company’s non-front page news. If a company wants to have a PR presence, it couldn’t hurt to pay attention to it. It might give you something to talk about in an interview when they ask you what you know about their firms current activities.
LinkedIn “Groups” are just Spam-filled blogs for the most part. I left almost all of them that I had joined when I was in college.
Bottom line: Maintain your LinkedIn Profile, follow some Companies you like and share interesting news articles if you want to have activity. Don’t rely on “Connections” to get you anywhere! And PLEASE only add people you feel comfortable talking shop with. Everything else is just noise.






is someone upset because no
is someone upset because no one replied to their networking efforts.....
Those bastards... how DARE
Those bastards... how DARE THEY not respond to your messages on YOUR schedule... and HOW DARE the people you know not live up to your online standards... the nerve...
“...all truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.”
- Schopenhauer
seabird: HOW DARE the people
HOW DARE the people you know not live up to your online standards... the nerve...
Dear MTV, thank you for helping me discover my supposed "model" girlfriend is really a morbidly obese gay man.
Okay, I have family over, and
Okay, I have family over, and they're kinda annoying me so I had to take a break for a minute. Also, I'm kinda already drunk - so i'm gonna keep this short and sweet.
You're a fuckin idiot - linkedin works.
RIP WSO Chat.
that was kinda harsh tho
that was kinda harsh tho sorry.
RIP WSO Chat.
Febreeze: You're a fuckin
You're a fuckin idiot - linkedin works.
I've only been actively using LinkedIn for a couple weeks and I've already had several analysts and associates at small funds and boutiques agree me to meet up for coffee (after a few back and forth InMail messages) and offer to deliver my resume to hiring managers.
1) Use LinkedIn to find names
1) Use LinkedIn to find names of people in desired industry/firm
2) Use firm email format to send networking email
3) ?????
4) Profit
^This. LinkedIn has helped me
^This. LinkedIn has helped me get most of the connections I have in the industry.
OP, try to reevaluate your
OP, try to reevaluate your LinkedIn strategy.
It's worked wonders for me and actually got me my current internship.
linkedin can be good if you
linkedin can be good if you network effectively
I am using it right now and
I am using it right now and it is working great. I thought I had 0 alums in finance (non target) but I've found 4-5 today.
LMAO you must be SO shitty at
LMAO you must be SO shitty at networking or are so awkward in emails (i dnt knw who you can be awkward in emails/messages, but you must be) or a dull person
i personally got my FT offer and previous internships SOLELY through networking, hard-work, luck and WSO (but mainly networking through LINKEDIN!!!!!!!!!!!)
i really feel bad for you if you dont know how to use linkedin to talk to people coldly. you should learn how to be witty/keep up a convo with a stranger. its a great life skill to have let alone a way to network.
merry christmas too :)
I don't throw darts at a board. I bet on sure things. Read Sun-tzu, The Art of War. Every battle is won before it is ever fought- GG
" HR will check to make sure
" HR will check to make sure you are competent enough to maintain a professional online presence and that it lines up with the resume you give them"
Dude i know plenty of people that dont use linkedin that are employed at very respectable firms and those that DO have linkedin and is well maintained and dont get interviews/offers
its as correlated as you are making it seem by HR checking it
just delete this thread now, lol so pointless
I don't throw darts at a board. I bet on sure things. Read Sun-tzu, The Art of War. Every battle is won before it is ever fought- GG
its *not as correlated
its *not as correlated
I don't throw darts at a board. I bet on sure things. Read Sun-tzu, The Art of War. Every battle is won before it is ever fought- GG
LinkedIn does and can
LinkedIn does and can work...
But if you think that its largely beneficial to the regular employee (like you and me), than you are sadly mistaken-
LinkedIn is a headhunters/HR/Employee fact checkers wet dream. But if you are smart and nimble, it can work for you...
"Sounds to me like you guys a couple of bookies."
Linkedin works very well. I
I think it can be an
LinkedIn has helped me a
Two biggest benefits for
If you don't think LinkedIn
IamObama: If you don't think
I don't throw darts at a board. I bet on sure things. Read Sun-tzu, The Art of War. Every battle is won before it is ever fought- GG
Just untrue (to the OP)
I guess things are really
clungeandman: I guess things
I don't throw darts at a board. I bet on sure things. Read Sun-tzu, The Art of War. Every battle is won before it is ever fought- GG
When used properly, LinkedIn
The main point of this post
Make opportunities. Not excuses.
WSRenaissanceMan: The main
I don't throw darts at a board. I bet on sure things. Read Sun-tzu, The Art of War. Every battle is won before it is ever fought- GG
I almost forgot about my
Make opportunities. Not excuses.
WSRenaissanceMan: I almost
I don't throw darts at a board. I bet on sure things. Read Sun-tzu, The Art of War. Every battle is won before it is ever fought- GG
AnalystMonkey2769: LMAO you
Make opportunities. Not excuses.
WSRenaissanceMan: AnalystMo
Oreos: WSRenaissanceMan:
I don't throw darts at a board. I bet on sure things. Read Sun-tzu, The Art of War. Every battle is won before it is ever fought- GG
While I agree OP is very
"If it were easy, everyone would do it"
What if they asked where you
trionfatore: What if they
Oreos: trionfatore: What if
"If it were easy, everyone would do it"
My only question is this, do
Just a sophomore looking for an opportunity to start up this dream of mine.
Falcon: My only question is
I don't throw darts at a board. I bet on sure things. Read Sun-tzu, The Art of War. Every battle is won before it is ever fought- GG
I have a new LinkedIn
"If it were easy, everyone would do it"
JPMortgage: I have a new
Because when you're in a room full of smart people, smart suddenly doesn't matter—interesting is what matters.