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. 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. I don't see much difference from putting up your resume on a website like monster.com, and putting it up on linkedin. To say LinkedIn is not a job seeking utility is a bit off the radar. -Andy On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 1:04 PM, Chuck Cole <cncole at earthlink.net> wrote: > 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! > > 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. > > 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. > > Chuck > > -----Original Message----- > *From:* tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org [mailto: > tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org]*On Behalf Of *Andy Schmid > *Sent:* Thursday, January 14, 2010 11:56 AM > *To:* Justin Kremer > *Cc:* tclug-list > *Subject:* Re: [tclug-list] Invitation to connect on LinkedIn > > 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. > > -Andy > > On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 11:44 AM, Justin Kremer <justin.kremer at gmail.com>wrote: > >> On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 10:41 AM, Joel Dick <joel_cd at yahoo.com> wrote: >> > 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. >> >> It claims to give you a "network of trust" or some other word for >> trustworthy businesspeople you know, but it is mostly just a >> popularity contest like Facebook for business people who are too good >> for Facebook. People add contacts that they've never met in person >> regularly, defeating any semblance of this network of trust that >> Linkedin is supposed to provide. >> And when you sign up, it asks you for your e-mail password so that it >> can try to spam everyone in your contacts, which would be how that >> e-mail got sent to this mailing list. >> I know for a fact that I have a whole lot of people in my e-mail >> contact list who I would not consider to be someone I trust, not >> necessarily because the person is not trustworthy, but because I don't >> know them well enough to vouch for them. >> - Justin >> >> >> > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20100114/2cbc5530/attachment-0001.htm