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Poll: Has LinkedIn ever been useful to you? Thread poster: ProZ.com Staff
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After a while, I cancelled my membership on LinkedIn (too expensive for what you get) but anyway taking part in two groups (Translation Agencies – Good, Bad, and Cheap + Unacceptable Translation Rates Naming and Shaming Group) has been very useful.
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When I started to use LinkedIn more than 10 years ago, it was the novelty and seemed important to have a profile there.
The problem appeared a couple of years later when phishing professionals started to use LinkedIn profiles, as it was (still is) much too easy for any hacker to access. So I decided to change my profile to keep my data private in order to stop the amount of spam/scams that I was getting.
After I had done it, it was fine for a while, but then I started t... See more When I started to use LinkedIn more than 10 years ago, it was the novelty and seemed important to have a profile there.
The problem appeared a couple of years later when phishing professionals started to use LinkedIn profiles, as it was (still is) much too easy for any hacker to access. So I decided to change my profile to keep my data private in order to stop the amount of spam/scams that I was getting.
After I had done it, it was fine for a while, but then I started to realize the number of want-ads had decreased. I really don't know if it was due to the fact that I'm not sharing any sort of contact information there (not even a profile pic) or not, but it was suspicious.
Then, also, I don't trust in LinkedIn algorithms and the way people's publications/comments end up being indexed in Google's first page for anyone to see, like if it was SEO targeted.
So, I still have the profile, but I don't use it; it's a true waste of time. ▲ Collapse
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Lingua 5B 
Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Never, I received a couple of offers at funny rates (almost asking me to work for free). I am not active on LinkedIn any longer.
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I saw a funny meme on LinkedIn once. Wait, no... that was somewhere else.
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Johan Beyens
Belgium
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I'm sorry to say, but in the past year LinkedIn has been more useful to me than Proz for finding jobs/clients and business related info. As it turns out, the majority of nonsense job offers also came through this site, to the point that I had to resort to turning off all contact info on my Proz profile.
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Baran Keki
Türkiye
Local time: 04:38
Member
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She turned out to be a scammer... I found Tinder to be more useful.
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🏆Patrik Högkvist
Sweden
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I have about 600+ "friends" on LinkedIn, 95 % of them are in the business, but no. Not useful at all.
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Tom in London
United Kingdom
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Member (2008)
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ProZ.com Staff wrote:
This forum topic is for the discussion of the poll question "Has LinkedIn ever been useful to you?". View the poll results »
No, never and I can't understand how it's supposed to work.
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Angie Garbarino
Local time: 02:38
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It is listed at a very useful platform but for me it is useless
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Zea_Mays
Italy
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| What's the dynamic? | Jan 22 |
Johan Beyens wrote:
I'm sorry to say, but in the past year LinkedIn has been more useful to me than Proz for finding jobs/clients and business related info. As it turns out, the majority of nonsense job offers also came through this site, to the point that I had to resort to turning off all contact info on my Proz profile.
May I ask how finding jobs/clients works there? Do they contact you directly, or do you reply to job offers? (I don't use the platform, so I don't know anything about its features.)
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Johan Beyens
Belgium
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The work I found through Linked was simply by using the listings and contacting the person in question - pretty much like you'd apply for a regular job. Knowing a few people here and there obviously helps. I found 3 agencies and 1 direct client (small one) that way.
In contrast, my job hunting on Proz in the past year has always ended in complete silence on the other end or me having to reject ridiculously low rates.
I've only started using Proz for job hunting since last year... See more The work I found through Linked was simply by using the listings and contacting the person in question - pretty much like you'd apply for a regular job. Knowing a few people here and there obviously helps. I found 3 agencies and 1 direct client (small one) that way.
In contrast, my job hunting on Proz in the past year has always ended in complete silence on the other end or me having to reject ridiculously low rates.
I've only started using Proz for job hunting since last year, so I don't know how it was before. ▲ Collapse
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jyuan_us
United States
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| Thank you for sharing the information | Jan 22 |
Johan Beyens wrote:
The work I found through Linked was simply by using the listings and contacting the person in question - pretty much like you'd apply for a regular job. Knowing a few people here and there obviously helps. I found 3 agencies and 1 direct client (small one) that way.
In contrast, my job hunting on Proz in the past year has always ended in complete silence on the other end or me having to reject ridiculously low rates.
I've only started using Proz for job hunting since last year, so I don't know how it was before.
You mentioned "The work I found through Linked was simply by using the listings and ..." What did you mean by "using the listings?" Are there job listings in LinkedIn?
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Johan Beyens
Belgium
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LinkedIn has job listings. They are not a freelancer platform, so you'll usually be looking at general job descriptions as "Translator" with agency or company X. There is also a "services" function where clients can request your services on specific projects, but this looks quite useless to me (seemingly random offers from random people - just like on Proz).
I have tried a number of dedicated freelancer platforms like Jellow, Malt, SmartCat and Proz. From these, I only had limited s... See more LinkedIn has job listings. They are not a freelancer platform, so you'll usually be looking at general job descriptions as "Translator" with agency or company X. There is also a "services" function where clients can request your services on specific projects, but this looks quite useless to me (seemingly random offers from random people - just like on Proz).
I have tried a number of dedicated freelancer platforms like Jellow, Malt, SmartCat and Proz. From these, I only had limited succes with SmartCat (got a few jobs but very low pay). So in comparison LinkedIn has worked much better for me. ▲ Collapse
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| Infested with spam | Jan 22 |
Baran Keki wrote:
She turned out to be a scammer... I found Tinder to be more useful.
Yes, the level of spam on LinkedIn is huge. I used to get bizarre messages by strangers out of the blue, just because I reacted with a thumbs up to a publication.
Plus, the level of spam sent by LinkedIn itself with promotions, “possible jobs” listings that have absolutely nothing to do with my searching parameters, courses, “people you possibly know” that live in countries I don't have idea where they are (How can I possibly know someone I have no idea where's living?) and upgrade offers, it's horrendous.
That's why I don't trust LinkedIn's algorithm, because it's too invasive or broke. Also, if there's a want-ad that I have to apply using Linked, I turned all the cookies and trackers off since it has so many that pages take ages to load.
IMV LinkedIn's tracking algorithm is the worst all over the internet.
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