@wendynather We're hiring at work, and have gotten several resumes where people claim to have 4-5 years experience implementing our internal systems.
I have asked the manager to let us interview at least one of them, just to see how they answer questions
@wendynather Your skillset would be ideal for franchising opportunities! đ
I hibernated my LI account just yesterday. I've had it over 20 years but it's not been terribly useful for a long time. Considering purging it, but don't want to make a final decision yet.
"i'm very impressed by your resume -- i have an opportunity that i think you'll be very interested in. it's a 3 month contract with no guarantee of followon employment, pays 1/3 your current rate, and requires you to be in office in small rural town in the swamps of Louisiana. i've contacted you several times with no response but i'm sure we can come to an agreement."
my favorite linkedin story...
in my decades long career, i've had one single "management" job. sr director. only 6 months at that company/job. everything else was SME/individual contributor for my entire career.
i got contacted by an executive headhunter for a VP of engineering job. i was already morbidly curious about what kind of supposedly executive headhunter could think i was a VP candidate, so took the call.
it was a startup company, first round of funding, yet had no VP of eng yet.
so, i ask innocently, what's the company's plan/product?
recruiter: "oh, we're building an AI based linkedin scraper to automate looking for suitable candidates."
i pause for a moment to try to figure out the least tactless response i could.
me: "huh... interesting. and did you use this product to find my resume?"
recruiter: "exactly!"
me: "i'd suggest you find and hire a qualified VP of engineering and some engineering staff and give them 6 months of coding work *before* you try using your own product to find any candidates. thanks for your time."
yeah... not in a good way, but definitely amazing...
sometimes i think about what the world would be like if *all* jobs had malpractice penalties, like law and medicine...
would certainly make linkedin a quieter place.
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@wendynather I got this today
%%first_name%, I work with some great Providence area business leaders
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