to never again believe a word written on "linked-in"

[thebluebeyond]

I always thought it was a fairly straight forward platform, people just jotted down there main features of their CV and made it public...

But the lie I have seen recently are shocking! literally, the lowliest employees pretending to be working in partnership with the CEO (who they could not even name) etc.

We dealt with a difficult and incompetent employee for a while, but had to let them go. I was a bit concerned about their wellbeing, and looked them up to see if they had found another job.

Well! Apparently they are mentoring me! No! it was the other way around! Apparently they are the lead in my department. NO! Apparently they are planning and managing projects and writing policies! No! No! No! and No! I

'm shocked and gobsmacked and the cheek of it, and in a way, it is funny, but in another way, it really isn't, because how is someone who is being honest going to ever get any recognition on linked-in, if compared to down right liars! And I don't even think it is against any rules, I think you can just say what you like

Not in my field.

that's still on them. Honestly, employing people before seeing the confirmations and references? tbh i wouldn't work for a company that didn't check.

not in mine either.

again: all these companies that aren't doing their due diligence on employees are asking for trouble and almost deserve going to the wall.

It is easy enough to check a) references and b) qualifications and c) conduct proper interviews. So I'm guessing from the pp here that 95% work for idiot companies, and some of us use LinkedIn as a resource, and because we are careful about connections etc, it is useful for us.

Easy to avoid the liars - but you have to invest a tiny bit of time.

I was hiring and a guy I used to work with sent me, personally, his LinkedIn CV, knowing it would be me reading it, and it was all bullshit about how he'd had a senior tech engineer role for 20 years. He was a salesman, he knew I knew he was just a salesman for that company, I sat in the same room as him for 5 years! Zero engineer experience whatsoever.

This 👆

It didn't start this way, but it is what it has become. People wanting to connect who you've never met, jobs that don't exist and are just collecting data, and mindless outpouring of bullshit from people as it might land them another job. Completely useless now.

This is the level of lie I am seeing- claiming to be office manager when actually the cleaner

My resume on linked in is true but I had dressed it in such complicated language that it appears that I am a super high flyer and I am running the country as a sideline.
Have had so many enquiries from agencies and consultancy firms.
Also have a laugh reading reading other people's stuff which I know is also total bollocks

There are since great fights discussions under some posts. However it is always the same idiots winding people up.

Problem is, I want to use it as a professional network. IMHO it was all about employment. I don't really care about what anyone thinks.

I agree though, of my connections, it is always the usual suspects posting.

I never trust anything on LinkedIn: I can't believe anyone uses it. The outright lies I've seen on there are astonishing.

I thought for years I was the only person totally sceptical about LinkedIn. I would only hear from distant contacts when they had updated LinkedIn and were job hunting!

This has always been the case though. I've read interviews over the years with well known people admitting they bullshitted their way into the role that started them on their way.
I had a reference for doing a non existent job written by a friend, as I couldn't get a foot on the ladder, this was a few decades ago, I got the job and did a good job too.
Lots of CVs are couched in phrases that make the applicant sound far more experienced than they are. Not exactly lying, but certainly economical with the truth.
In the same vein employers frequently aren't honest about the jobs or salaries that they are advertising.
None of it is morally right, but desperate times and all that.

I was forced to join in the course of my work. It's excruciating. There's something off about that type of self promotion. Probably why I had a nervous breakdown and no longer work. Yeah, I blame LinkedIn. Lol.

The former colleagues I see being very active on LinkedIn aren’t the ones I thought were in any way exceptional. Far more often I think, really, you’re a Head Of? It’s for bullshit merchants and people with no self awareness.

My BIL is on linked in claiming to be a neurologist (among other specialities).

He's in tele-sales.

I work with someone & her Linkedin BIO is basically the opposite of what she is. 🤣