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Our company has recently become more active on Linked In, the professional social networking site. We have a neutral reference policy for supervisors. We have seen more collegues provide recommendatio
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Linked In Recommendations
posted at 8/17/2010 4:57 AM EDT
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Our company has recently become more active on Linked In, the professional social networking site. We have a neutral reference policy for supervisors. We have seen more collegues provide recommendations to our employees with the company. Some people that have performance issues are getting recommendations. has anyone seen this happen and how do you all handle that? |
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Linked In Recommendations
posted at 8/17/2010 12:05 PM EDT
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Actually I will disagree with hrbth as not only do I have first hand knowledge that references their are generally sound but that the over riding consensus of the site is that these recommendations are but an indicator and require further investigation/due diligence. My first hand knowledge comes from such due diligence.
As to a policy regarding "neutral references". I find that archaic and disruptive to a good relationship between employees and their employer. |
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Linked In Recommendations
posted at 8/18/2010 3:08 AM EDT
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Well, I've seen four profiles on LinkedIn of people (HR people!) that I know personally, and their profiles are complete lies (HR people!) - and given that, I think their recommendations must be very suspect at best. When I've railed about this to friends and colleagues, they've all said very cynically "Oh yeah, and we all know that LinkedIn is such a bastion of truth, right." Plus I've read this in several articles. |
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Linked In Recommendations
posted at 8/18/2010 10:01 AM EDT
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I've never had any issues with using LinkedIN references or profiles, but I do think it'd be altogether too easy for someone to fabricate references or get someone else to do it for them.
I certainly would not use LinkedIn references as my only reference source. |
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Linked In Recommendations
posted at 8/20/2010 6:35 AM EDT
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Slightly off-topic here, I just need to vent - I'm also very annoyed at the vast numbers of headhunters who are always trying to get me to join their LinkedIn networks just because I'm an HR person. I don't know/have never worked with 99% or more of these people and yet they just keep on barking at my door - four so far today (and that doesn't include the phone calls, faxes and emails) - grrrr. I know this isn't LinkedIn's fault but this misuse of the site is not helping its reputation, not at all. |
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Linked In Recommendations
posted at 8/24/2010 5:58 AM EDT
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First: 3/27/2008 Last: 3/1/2011 |
Definitely agree with you, HRBTH. It seems like as soon as I get off the phone with a recruiter, they send the linked in invitation. My assumption is that other people respond so they figure it's worth a try! |
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