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Mel O'Dramatic
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Hi all
I'm on LinkedIn and thinking of upgrading to Premium but not sure if it's worth it unless you're a business owner or someone with a vocational career. Anyone got any experience of it, did you find it useful in your job search?
I'm on LinkedIn and thinking of upgrading to Premium but not sure if it's worth it unless you're a business owner or someone with a vocational career. Anyone got any experience of it, did you find it useful in your job search?
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You don't need it to see the job adverts and I have not found it of much use to approach someone you don't already know on the job front. I get various recruitment agents approaching me on there at the moment but then my type of skills are in demand now with Financial Services companies.
They've offered to refund me, so I think I'll just cancel and stick to bog-standard LinkedIn.
LinkedIn does have a lot of annoyances such as people boasting about how brilliant they are and fishing for endorsements but it's still probably the best place to find a new job.
You can check if someone has stolen your pics by uploading your own copy of the pics into Google image search and seeing if anyone out there is using them.
The world is full of sick weirdos.
Steve - thanks for the photo warning. I think people would be disappointed if they used my pic for a sex website!
barbela - I get e-mails telling me about the latest jobs I might be interested in but that may have been a feature of the premium trial. Maybe it's something you need to turn on in your settings?
I've never even considered premium (I thought only recruitment consultants found it worthwhile to go premium) and I still get those job emails. It's an option you can select in the settings as you suggested. Most big companies now advertise through LinkedIn plus you can get headhunted so it's worth having your profile as public as possible and keeping it updated. No need to go premium unless you want to contact lots of random people which is never a good idea.
If you follow companies you may be interested in then they often post job openings.
The main sources of job information is either through their jobs pages (https://www.linkedin.com/job/home) or from recruitment consultants who search LinkedIn for potential candiates. That's how I got my current job - I wasn't actively looking to move but I got a call from a recruiter who had found my details on the site.
I don't see job ads
Recruiters ask you to add them then email you asking if they can phone you (and that will often turn into a technical interview).
Usually there is a connection (members of the same user group for instance).
If there's none I refuse.
Unfortunately most of these are as relevant as Amazon's "top recommendations for you" for music and movies