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LinkedIn: Missing opportunities due to mismatch between job title and job function
My job title is Applications Engineer. In my role, however, I work fully as a Data Scientist. I have tried to indicate my job function in my LinkedIn profile in various ways, including in my Headline, ...
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How does one handle name changes of employers on Linkedin work history?
Working in the IT field and having skills that are in demand, I have changed jobs quite a lot over the years. My Linkedin profile lists around a dozen positions. Due to mergers, acquisitions or just ...
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Is connecting with a hiring manager on LinkedIn prior to the interview a breach of etiquette?
I just requested a LinkedIn connection to the hiring manager before the interview session and he accepted the connection.
After I researched LinkedIn connection etiquette, I realized that I may have ...
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How can my boss know that I am looking for a job via LinkedIn? [closed]
Today, when my boss was talking with me, he suddenly said: No you don't need to worry about it, everyday you have 3 or 4 messages with agent in LinkedIn, right?
I am very very surprised because :
I ...
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Why would recruiter reach out to me on LinkedIn with an "opportunity", then ask for a call before giving me details of the opportunity in writing?
I have a profile on LinkedIn which gets me contact with recruiters who often send me job specs. This works great as I can read the spec, look at the salary and the company and very quickly see if it's ...
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Received a recruitment email from LinkedIn contact at my work email address (from CEO of another company) - how to respond?
A few weeks ago, I received an email at my work email address from someone outside my company asking if I had seen a post they had put up on LinkedIn about a role they are recruiting for at their ...
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Strange Behavior by Recruiters on LinkedIn
I wanted to talk about something strange that's been happening with me and recruiters on LinkedIn.
The thing is, the recruiters contact me there through the messaging service describing a potential ...
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Are LinkedIn Recruiters Mostly Scam?
I have a really poor view of recruiters who reach out on LinkedIn and just want to get a sense if they are actually scams or not.
A decent part have international numbers. Seems like an easy scam to ...
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Slight Career Advice Regarding Recruiter on LinkedIn For Software Engineering [duplicate]
I was wondering if anyone can help me out with a recruiter who contacted me yesterday on LinkedIn for a potential role. The problem is in my response I had a typo and before I got the chance to review ...
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Recruiter asks for curriculum without providing details about the job offer
Context
I recently got contacted by a recruiter on Linkedin with a message similar to this:
Hi ...,
my name is ... and I'm a recruiter for company X, an engineering company that works across Europe ...
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Is it appropriate to say "Excel hell" on a LinkedIn profile?
A majority of my current job is replacing exceedingly complicated Excel-based data processes with automated software. I heard the phrase "Excel hell" on the podcast Talk Python To Me and thought it ...
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Recurring recruiter contact on LinkedIn
I'm aware of quite a few questions asking about the best way to handle messages on LinkedIn from recruiters, but I think this is different enough to warrant a question of its own.
There are quite a ...
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Cannot get reply from recruiter
I sent a job application to company X a month ago. This is a big global company with thousands of employees and currently hundreds of job vacancies.
10 days ago I got a reply like this:
Thanks for ...
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Unreturned recomendations on Linkedin: should I hide them?
I'm starting to use LinkedIn now (I have very few connections) and I would like to use it professionally and to give a good impression both to my friends, to former colleagues, and to potential ...
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Recruiter not disclosing where he got my phone number and resume from
Background
Normally when I am open for changes in my career I update my CV on some carrier or professional networking portals like LinkedIn, Indeed.com etc.
If something interesting comes up through ...
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