I recently wrote about Job Hunting Symptoms on LinkedIn, where one of those clear signals was an influx of new recommendations. What I didn’t mention though is that any prospective job hunters should of course make sure they screen what is written before publishing them. I noticed this little gem of a LinkedIn recommendation today in my update feed. For privacy purposes I’ve removed the surnames and company names.
Although I haven’t verified if this was just a joke that shouldn’t have been published or if it’s supposed to be a an ironic and “fun” recommendation (in which it then totally fails as there’s no way of knowing that), It does highlight how important it is to make sure you keep all your online profiles up to date and actively manage how you represent yourself across all social platforms.
In this case I’m not sure who seem to have the poorest judgement – the former employee who asks his manager for a recommendation albeit he must surely know she’s not his biggest fan, or the manager who rants on and on, and on and on…
I’ll let you be the judge, and perhaps you’ve got a job for Dave?
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This has to be a joke. It’s just too damn funny
I think you might be right (the recommendation got changed to a more typical one-liner, albeit quiet dry, about an hour after this post got published and seeded back to linkedin), but it still goes to show how risky it is to put anything in the public domain that requires any background info – internal jokes should be kept just that, internal.
To put in perspective, this niche blog post so far got about 150+ views since published this afternoon and the twittpic (http://twitpic.com/ju42c) about 50 views so anything you publish has the risk of spreading in a way you didn’t plan, but at least I was kind enough to remove the names