LinkedIn losing credibility?

I can't help but to notice that more and more people on LinkedIn are posting content that does not belong on there such as posting pictures of their kids or getting engaged (yes I've seen this). To me, this devalues LinkedIn and groups it in with the rest of the social media/networking websites (not entirely) unfortunately which could make it hard for people to reach out to professionals in their industry trying to network for jobs if they aren't checking LinkedIn as much.

It seems like before LinkedIn was just strictly business professionals and less crap like vacation pictures and what not that belong on Facebook.

Could there be a way to filter stuff like this out? Hoping so.

 

True...except they also need to give a reason for the users to stick around...so if they don't figure out how to filter this content more and more users will leave. Thus the appeal to recruiters will soften.

And quite frankly...indeed.com resume search is a better search tool (IMHO) for recruiters. Heeps of formatted resumes with decent search functionality.

 

I think it's becoming the de facto job search tool as well. They recently changed their layout and it's pretty nice. Plus there are some jobs that you can apply to in maybe 2-3 clicks without having to type all your data in. Not sure where it stacks up against Indeed, but my guess is that it won't be long (if it isn't already) before it overtakes Indeed.

 

I'm a buyside recruiter, and I'm willing to pay to reach you guys (I actually do pay LinkedIn lots of money...). But it's increasingly becoming useless, as the customized emails I send to professionals get drowned in a mass of I'm-a-SEO-expert-from-this-or-that-country-can-we-do-business-with-you-type emails and connection requests.

 

Agree totally. I'd happily pay for a professional linked that is something like a Linkedin/GoBuyside hybrid. Linkedin is still OK, but I find myself unfollowing and hiding an endless stream of content. I have no issue with recruiters reaching out and other sales stuff, but the annoying, inappropriate posts and just junk content is killing the site. Personally, I am on Linkedin because the next best thing hasn't been created. Facebook was like that for me until it finally became too fucking annoying and I deleted it. I can definitely see a day when I do the same with Linkedin.

 

This is very interesting TNA. Gosh I should go on WSO more often. The internal search tool and profiles my team built at talentswat (mostly out of frustration about LinkedIn) is slowly becoming such a hybrid. As our network is becoming way too large for us to have a chance to speak with everyone, we're starting to consider moving away from headhunting altogether and instead opening the platform to other recruiters. It's becoming sort of a private club, with very strict membership criteria. While at this time our users can't write to each other and don't have access to the search features used internally by our team, unlocking those search functionalities for all users wouldn't be very difficult.

Obviously we couldn't build all of the features that LinkedIn has (nor would we want to), but our business is going well and we'd be willing to invest non-negligible amounts of money to build something robust enough that our members would be willing to pay for.

What features do you think would provide sufficient enough value for Wall Street professionals to pay for?

 

I would have agreed with you a few days ago, but in the last week or so I've gotten several decent job prospects from recruiters contacting me (that said, I have zero interest in leaving my current company, but if I did have interest the last few days have demonstrated that Linkedin still has value).

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My thought process is that if the quality of content goes down, people in this industry well stop checking it as much (not marketing, sales or HR) and thus not be as receptive to in mails/ cold mailing for people trying to break into their aspiring job fields.

 
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My thought process is that if the quality of content goes down, people in this industry well stop checking it as much (not marketing, sales or HR) and thus not be as receptive to in mails/ cold mailing for people trying to break into their aspiring job fields.

That's definitely a possibility. But the in-mails are sent directly to our personal emails, so it felt like I was being contacted directly by the recruiters.

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As was said in the other LinkedIn thread, this is just the natural cycle of a social media platform. You get the early adopters, then the mainstream, then the expansion, then the social decline but user base increase. It really applies to anything that is "cool," such as slang. Early adopters start saying something, then "cool" people do, then everyone does, then your grandma says "bae" or "fleek" or dabs and by then it's already been dead for a year.

Facebook went through a very similar cycle. As everyone knows by now Facebook started at select schools and then grew to requiring a .edu email to create an account. When I got my college email in 2006, the absolute first thing I did was create a facebook, because facebook was simply that cool. Then, facebook expanded to everyone and it started to suck some. Then your grandma and that racist you went to highschool with and your cousin who is really into anime got facebook and both post meme after meme and like stupid after stupid and it all shows up on your timeline. Facebook doesn't care because they are now basically the passport to the internet, but the content on facebook blows dick.

Likewise, LinkedIn used to be just an online resume. It was easier than making a "personal webpage" and everything was all in one place. Then they started letting famous people write articles. Then they started letting PR and Advertising majors and 25 year old "entrepreneurs" write "articles." Now the same idiots who post "If this kid gets 100,000 likes his cancer will go away" posts on facebook post "inspiring" memes on LinkedIn and the shit content rises - but LinkedIn doesn't care because they need those people to help their numbers.

LinkedIn was never "credible" - it just was. It existed. So it didn't lose credibility. The userbase simply expanded, bringing in all of the Beachbody reps, Unemployepreneurs, recruiters who don't even read your profile before spamming your inbox, and and the people who do all of the things in this thread: http://www.wallstreetoasis.com/forums/what-are-your-linkedin-pet-peeves

I still get good articles and company-specific news from it and I still use it before meetings to get some info on a person's background. In that way, it hasn't lost the only two purposes I ever used it for.

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Totally on point. That being said, I think if your network primarily consists of people in high finance and not random 70-year-olds, etc., your feed will primarily be professional, maybe with a bit of shit content.

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I think it's more of a who is on your linkedin.

If you're in high finance/enterprise sales or any industry where your credibility matters and is based on long term connections I wouldn't post anything non professional.

It is absolutely in your best interest to not post anything that would possibly offend anyone.

The occasional family picture might be non professional, but it is by no means bad.

VS Sales Rep at Random Shitty Startup or redneck oil worker Joe where what you post has significantly less of an impact because you don't have the same profile.

The worst is when I see old people all commenting on the picture of an attractive girl saying stuff like "You're so pretty!" and sexual-ish comments.

Look, I get it if you want to hit on hot young women and I'm not here to stop you and I really don't care, but this is absolutely NOT the place for that.

 

Oh wow - there was a post like Abigail McAlpine's that I saw a while ago that went semi-viral and then turned out to be fake to drive profile views. Can't believe this is actually happening now. Sorry to hear that.

Make Idaho a Semi-Target Again 2016 Not an alumnus of Idaho
 

You should focus on your studies/networking instead of the grammar posted on a social networking website at 8:30am on a Sunday morning.

When your boss emails you using abbreviated words and sentences with missing periods, are you going to care or point it out? No - because you (and more importantly, your boss) have much more important matters to worry about.

That being said, any email sent to your boss should never have spelling errors, etc. But again, it shouldn't matter on WSO.

 

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