I've never heard of Indeed, thanks for the tip. I have not had the same poor experience with linkedin. I have been contacted by recruiters from some pretty big companies who found me via linkedin through my listed experience and contacts. It may not work for everyone, but it has worked for me.<br>
<br>I hardly ever get spam from linkedin (aside from job inquiries, which is the whole point of it IMO), and linkedin will not spam your friends unless you tell it to. I also have not run into any trojans or viruses from the site.<br>
<br>I don't see much difference from putting up your resume on a website like <a href="http://monster.com">monster.com</a>, and putting it up on linkedin. To say LinkedIn is not a job seeking utility is a bit off the radar.<br>
<br>-Andy<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 1:04 PM, Chuck Cole <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cncole@earthlink.net">cncole@earthlink.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="4">Better
to use a real job-seeking function like Indeed.com that won't spam everybody and
invite makware attacks on your system. My ISP frequently stops bad trojans
and malware from the social cesspools (Linkedin, Facebook, Twitter) and
notifies me of their attempt. This dominant aspect of Linkedin (et al) is
NOT "useful" to me!</font></span></div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="4"></font></span> </div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="4">Indeed
is like Google for jobs. Nothing else is as good or better. Finding
a job listing it doesn't have is difficult. Their search feature is better
than others, and one syntax searches all listing, allowing interesting ones to
be saved for follow-up.</font></span></div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="4"></font></span> </div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="4">Linkedin is not first and foremost a job seeking function. When a
Linkedin job is listed on Indeed, one can go to the company site and not use
Linkedin at all.</font></span></div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="4"></font></span> </div><font color="#888888">
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="4">Chuck</font></span></div></font><div><div></div><div class="h5">
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><font face="Tahoma" size="2">-----Original Message-----<br><b>From:</b>
<a href="mailto:tclug-list-bounces@mn-linux.org" target="_blank">tclug-list-bounces@mn-linux.org</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:tclug-list-bounces@mn-linux.org" target="_blank">tclug-list-bounces@mn-linux.org</a>]<b>On
Behalf Of </b>Andy Schmid<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, January 14, 2010 11:56
AM<br><b>To:</b> Justin Kremer<br><b>Cc:</b> tclug-list<br><b>Subject:</b> Re:
[tclug-list] Invitation to connect on LinkedIn<br><br></font></div>It may
suck, but if it can help me find a job when I'm out of work ... it is at
minimum in the 'useful' category.<br><br>-Andy<br><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 11:44 AM, Justin Kremer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:justin.kremer@gmail.com" target="_blank">justin.kremer@gmail.com</a>></span>
wrote:<br>
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<div>On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 10:41 AM, Joel Dick <<a href="mailto:joel_cd@yahoo.com" target="_blank">joel_cd@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br>>
Dare I ask why people don't like Linkedin? Just wondering, as a few people
have recommended that I sign up there, that it's good for job
networking.<br><br></div>It claims to give you a "network of trust" or some
other word for<br>trustworthy businesspeople you know, but it is mostly just
a<br>popularity contest like Facebook for business people who are too
good<br>for Facebook. People add contacts that they've never met in
person<br>regularly, defeating any semblance of this network of trust
that<br>Linkedin is supposed to provide.<br>And when you sign up, it asks
you for your e-mail password so that it<br>can try to spam everyone in your
contacts, which would be how that<br>e-mail got sent to this mailing
list.<br>I know for a fact that I have a whole lot of people in my
e-mail<br>contact list who I would not consider to be someone I trust,
not<br>necessarily because the person is not trustworthy, but because I
don't<br>know them well enough to vouch for them.<br><font color="#888888">-
Justin<br></font>
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