By Jeff Altman, Big Game Hunter
My answer to the question of whether employers care about LinkedIn profiles is two-part. The second one might surprise you.
I’m Jeff Altman, big game hunter. I coach people. I help solve workplace issues to find jobs, better recruit, manage, lead, be more efficient in the workplace.
The question I want to answer in this video is do employers care about LinkedIn profiles? Now, I want to clarify that there is more than one part, so stick with me while I finish the first part because the second part may surprise you. The first is recruiting people to use LinkedIn as a new repository. After all, there are 650 million people on LinkedIn at the time of this writing, and close to 700 million, so once they have a LinkedIn Recruiter account, they can scout and find people for their companies.
For many of them, it replaces the need to receive a resume. They recruit people through keywords in your profile. So, yeah, it’s important to them from a recruiting standpoint.
Now, this is the other part of what I promised at the beginning, which is that for some companies, they’re going to be bothered by the fact that your LinkedIn profile has data in it, and as I wrote for Forbes, some companies will tell their employees that after you’re hired, in other words, after you accept a job and join, they’re going to delete everything in your profile. Therefore, there is no data about you and your experiences. There’s the company name, dates of employment, title, and that’s it.
So from a caring perspective, they care because they are aware of their behavior and don’t want others to recruit their employees. So, basically, what they do is they make you invisible, and there are compliance people in the organization who are looking for violators to talk to because they don’t want other companies, recruiters, or anyone to contact you about another job. So, yes, they care about both.
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