Comments on: LinkedIn Lemons to Lemonade

By: Keep Your LinkedIn Profile Current « asuccessfulcareer

Keep Your LinkedIn Profile Current « asuccessfulcareer — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 03:33:26 +0000

[...] Sharib, who wrote an article for ere.net called “LinkedIn Lemons to Lemonade” about outdated LinkedIn information. You see, it just isn’t enough to put your data into your shiny new LinkedIn profile and [...]

By: Maureen Sharib

Maureen Sharib — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 14:03:43 +0000

Sorry Glenn – I missed the last n in your name in the former post because the tears in my eyes (from laughing) blurred my sight and the heaving of my shoulders made me miss the second n on the keyboard!

;)

Maureen

By: Maureen Sharib

Maureen Sharib — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 13:58:03 +0000

HaHa Glen!

I’ve had to find promise in the problem.
It wasn’t easy but it was there all along!
I just wasn’t looking in the sweet spot.

;)

Maureen Sharib
Phone Sourcer
513 899 9628
http://www.techtrak.com

By: Glenn Gutmacher

Glenn Gutmacher — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 13:45:02 +0000

Maureen – it’s amazing how you so easily turn today’s latest technology news into evidence of old-school job security. Is there anything that really scares you as to thinking you couldn’t keep doing what you do forever? Do you lose more sleep from fears of increasingly savvy gatekeepers making good data harder to come by, more phone sourcers wanting to move in on your action at a slightly lower namerate, or what?

As I just commented on Dr. John Sullivan’s recent ERE post about LinkedIn, spamming there (and on related sites) is going to accelerate, making those sites less valuable as an increasing number of in-demand candidates remove themselves from such sites. Well, maybe not less valuable for the foreseeable future, since the continued net increase of profiles on such sites should more than offset the defections.

But if you’re already enjoying an 8-new-on-top-of-existing-5 ratio across the board as it is (with more current/validated data to boot), then I can only imagine it should get even better for you down the road!

By: Carol Schultz

Carol Schultz — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 21:17:54 +0000

Maureen: On target as usual. There will always be recruiters who go the extra mile to get information and those that will go for the low hanging fruit. Your example is classic in that the client you mention went for the low hanging fruit. If that was working for him, why would he need you??

By: Sylvia Dahlby

Sylvia Dahlby — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 18:20:58 +0000

This article illustrates the fact that LinkedIn or any database is not the be-all end-all. And yes there are plenty of great candidates not on LinkedIn and not easy to find across the world wide web. Recruiting not about storing information, nor is sourcing just about finding names. It’s how you use it. A good database provides the tools for COMMUNICATING with people and developing relationships, networking for referrals, keeping notes about past contact, asking for leads, and staying in touch with talent and industry associates in your network.

By: Cathy Graham

Cathy Graham — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 14:01:41 +0000

Maureen
so true, you can count on most active job seekers to have current LI profiles, but there are certainly lots of people who don’t/won’t use the service. However, it does work well to kickstart the name generation process.It seems like the more information there is about people the more you need to rely on the tried and true: pick up the phone and verify. I love LI but you need to remember: user provided info with all the inconsistencies and inaccuracies that go along with that.