If LinkedIn Endorsements Were Honest

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by datadriven • 13 years ago

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EvanKelly• 13 years ago

I'm endorsed for skills I wouldn't even endorse myself in. Incidentally, the folks endorsing me for these skills have never actually worked with me and couldn't tell you whether I could program my way out of a box.

I don't keep an up to date LinkedIn profile, mainly because I haven't found the network extremely useful to me. This has resulted in some languages and tools that I was once pretty familiar with remaining on my profile long after I forgot how to even spell them.

I wonder how well it could work to reduce "endorse-spam" if I could mark someone's endorsement of me as untrustworthy, and then their endorsements of other people could have a lesser weight? Seems like an overly complex solution to a problem that shouldn't exist.

fnordfnordfnord• 13 years ago

I'd agree with you that it feels like it ought to be a crappy system, but out of curiosity, I just went and checked out my own profile. To my surprise, the "aggregate" of all of my 85 endorsements is fairly accurate. The top 5 are solid, and almost in the same order I'd rank them. There are a few which as you say, I wouldn't endorse myself for; but, only one of them made it to the top ten. I'd say that's not too bad since it a small sample. Maybe they don't need to change anything.

jwillgoesfast• 13 years ago

how about "over promises and under delivers"

also, best linkedIn trolling is endorsing people for languages they despise but have had to use anyway :)

tptacek• 13 years ago

This is the moral equivalent of a single imgur page, just formatted differently. I flagged it.

general_failure• 13 years ago

Endorsements are mostly a joke.

pan69• 13 years ago

For some reason I'm connected to this tech recruiter and I noticed the other day that this dude endorsed for pretty much every single technology under the sun.

LinkedIn endorsements are ridiculous.

If LinkedIn Endorsements Were Honest

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