[Gllug] Camalyn Vacancy Posts

[Jose Luis Martinez]

On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 12:48 PM, David L Neil Mailing list a/c
<GLLUG at getaroundtoit.co.uk> wrote:
> Balbir Thomas wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>>     > How does one get ahead on MERIT if nobody knows who you are?
>>
>>
>> In academics getting a job in the intial 10-15 years of your career is
>> almost totally a matter of who you know and what they think of you, both
>> professionally and personally. I can only speculate why it is so, but it
>> seems to be a vestige of the feudal practice of apprenticeship. In the
>> industry in my experience there is a little more opertunity for
>> competent people who may not have a network.
> ...
>
> May I broaden this topic even further?
>
> Aside from the hype, does anyone have experience of whether the LinkedIn
> social-computing/social-network/Web2.0-community actually works for job
> seeking IT people, project staff, managers, or ... ?
>
> I did actually sign-up, ages ago, but only because it seemed to gain
> kudos for an old friend, referee, ex-colleague, etc. So am in complete
> ignorance...

It does work in the sense that agencies and head hunters approach you
with real jobs (they have a reputation to maintain in the site, so you
don't get the mock around kind of agency).
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