If LinkedIn Endorsements Were Honest(cadince.com)
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If LinkedIn Endorsements Were Honest
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I'd agree with you that it feels like it ought to be a crappy system, but out of curiosity, I just went and checked out my own profile. To my surprise, the "aggregate" of all of my 85 endorsements is fairly accurate. The top 5 are solid, and almost in the same order I'd rank them. There are a few which as you say, I wouldn't endorse myself for; but, only one of them made it to the top ten. I'd say that's not too bad since it a small sample. Maybe they don't need to change anything.
This is the moral equivalent of a single imgur page, just formatted differently. I flagged it.
For some reason I'm connected to this tech recruiter and I noticed the other day that this dude endorsed for pretty much every single technology under the sun.
LinkedIn endorsements are ridiculous.
LinkedIn endorsements are ridiculous.
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how about "over promises and under delivers"
also, best linkedIn trolling is endorsing people for languages they despise but have had to use anyway :)
also, best linkedIn trolling is endorsing people for languages they despise but have had to use anyway :)
Endorsements are mostly a joke.
I don't keep an up to date LinkedIn profile, mainly because I haven't found the network extremely useful to me. This has resulted in some languages and tools that I was once pretty familiar with remaining on my profile long after I forgot how to even spell them.
I wonder how well it could work to reduce "endorse-spam" if I could mark someone's endorsement of me as untrustworthy, and then their endorsements of other people could have a lesser weight? Seems like an overly complex solution to a problem that shouldn't exist.