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LinkedIn | What do you do when you're endorsed by people you never met?

Posted on 6/25/15 at 9:34 pm
Posted by rpg37
Ocean Springs, MS
Member since Sep 2008
47854 posts
Posted on 6/25/15 at 9:34 pm
I have three 'connections' who have endorsed me in randomized skills. I do not recall meeting these people. I accepted their invitations only because sometimes I do forget people through business meetings and casual contacts. I find these endorsements weird to me.

Furthermore, what percent of businesses really look at endorsements or LinkedIn accounts anyway?
This post was edited on 6/25/15 at 10:16 pm
Posted by RummelTiger
Texas
Member since Aug 2004
89940 posts
Posted on 6/25/15 at 9:37 pm to
quote:

What o you do when you're endorsed by people you never met?


Nothing.

quote:

Furthermore, what percent of businesses really look at endorsements or LinkedIn accounts anyway?


0%
Posted by junkfunky
Member since Jan 2011
33930 posts
Posted on 6/25/15 at 9:38 pm to
99% of the time I ignore everything. It's turned into facebook.
Posted by MasCervezas
Ocean Springs
Member since Jul 2013
7958 posts
Posted on 6/25/15 at 9:41 pm to
I usually reply with a dick pic
Posted by Spankum
Miss-sippi
Member since Jan 2007
56101 posts
Posted on 6/25/15 at 9:43 pm to
honestly, I don't pay much attention to it at all...

however, some dude from mumbai, india has looked at my profile several times. I have to say, I do find that a little bit wierd...
Posted by SamuelClemens
Earth
Member since Feb 2015
11727 posts
Posted on 6/25/15 at 10:01 pm to
Endorse em right back buddy! Don't you even LinkedIn?
Posted by TigerFred
Feeding hamsters
Member since Aug 2003
27186 posts
Posted on 6/25/15 at 10:05 pm to
I don't connect with anyone that I do not know.

It is something like Facebook with some of the bs but it can be a resource to check for HR type people.

I have a lot of international business so I do get some connections that I only have talked to but never met. It helps to eventually meet them in person.
Posted by ChunkyLover54
Member since Apr 2015
6530 posts
Posted on 6/25/15 at 10:18 pm to
Nothing. You do nothing
Posted by Breesus
House of the Rising Sun
Member since Jan 2010
66982 posts
Posted on 6/25/15 at 10:22 pm to
Usually i just sit at home and masturbate
Posted by kywildcatfanone
Wildcat Country!
Member since Oct 2012
119430 posts
Posted on 6/25/15 at 10:23 pm to
Delete the email.
Posted by AZTarheeel
Member since Feb 2015
3702 posts
Posted on 6/25/15 at 11:48 pm to
Most endorsements are random. LinkedIn recommends a group of people and random skills and gives you an option to "endorse all". At first I felt like a pimp having all these people endorsing me. Then I realized how the system works and nobody is actually singling me out for an endorsement. LinkedIn endorsements are worthless.
Posted by Jim Rockford
Member since May 2011
98305 posts
Posted on 6/26/15 at 12:21 am to
Linkedin is Facebook for tryhards and gunners.
Posted by TigahLilly
Chicago
Member since Dec 2013
361 posts
Posted on 6/26/15 at 1:15 am to
From what I've seen endorsements don't mean too much. I am in a form of sales and sales people have no problem linking in with you or endorsing you even if they don't know you. They just want to get the connection and network (which is a part of any sales job so I can't blame them). My line of thinking is these random people endorse me because they want reciprocation. I won't put my name on something I don't know so I don't endorse the randos back.

I have gotten a few random job offers from there, unfortunately from places I don't want to move to. I have been trying to find a new job recently so I have noticed people looking at my profile from companies I've applied to. If you are job hunting I'd say the site is worth keeping up with. If you aren't then I don't see the point in it since it's like professional Facebook.
Posted by SmellslikeKevinBacon
Louisiana
Member since Dec 2012
6185 posts
Posted on 6/26/15 at 6:56 am to
I send them dick pics.
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