LinkedIn for Creatives
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- oey0
i've got two linkdingalingadings
- benfal990
i almost got 1 project from a client on LinkedIn 1 year ago.
- fadein110
they sell user data like no other social network... not to mention the endless 'spam'.
- necromation0
Man, i still get great offers thru Linkedin and have in the past received quite a few jobs. I never bothered with Be-hance and most my mates in LDN never use it. As a CD now if i want to check anyone out i go straight to their Linkedin profile. I do get the odd Be-hance portfolio every now and then but not much. I think Linkedin is great.
- freedom0
Anyone who calls themselves "a creative" is just a snob.
- breadlegz0
You can either moan about how it is, or you can use it to get new clients. It's up to you.
You can turn off all the alerts and annoying crap that they email.
At the end of the day, it's a network like any other. You have to be on there and learn to use it to make any headway.
Just yesterday for example, a lady phoned me up because she'd seen something I have on my profile that she wants to offer to her clients. So out of the blue, I have a new referrer.
- formed0
I refused to participate in it until recently and I was quickly proven wrong.
I've both connected with clients and started looking for people to hire on there.
Not the best site, but it seems to be getting better.
I do wish they were more clear on how you can request 'connections', seems to be totally random who requires emails and who doesn't (long time client requires email, random people across teh world doesn't)
- dirtydesign0
Its a tool.
Find its use.I stay in contact with former work acquaintances, see where they're working. Application process is much quicker when you know someone.
You can search companies and see whose hiring as well.
- Continuity0
As a research tool, I love LinkedIn. If I want to bypass HR to send my CV to an ECD, LinkedIn is absolutely the first place I look to.
- GeorgesIV0
update: I cleaned my linkedin, loaded some new work, followed some companies and it actually helped me get some job interviews,
Now from tomorrow I'll update my be_hance, haven't posted anything on it since 2010.. let see how it goes
- cannonball19780
Ive gotten laid from linkedin lol
- that's the spirit!!GeorgesIV
- Where do I sign up?!?!?!nylon
- hahahahahahaHAHAAHHA...loool
- linked "IN".omahadesigns
- benfal990
Its a tool for lurking people
- not really since it tells them you viewed their profilemonospaced
- you be anonymous when you view other people's profiles.zarkonite