This thread had me go log in to my linkdin account. And I don't recall the last time I did that.
@kirkette is one my "people you may knows"
My VP at work and my MIL sent me invitations in February and March of last year. Would it be weird to confirm now? Is my VP going to think I'm job searching? I have mixed feelingssssss.
This post is a classic example of schadenfreude fremdschämen. Like when farmer asked her boss how her urine was.
miso, I've gotten several LinkedIn invitations and I always know that it's someone who happened to invite their address book. I think it happens a lot.
Linkedin makes so sense. It autoimports all my contacts and suggests I add the. Random people keep adding me and some weirdo from my school keeps endorsing me. I don't see the point at all and I feel like it's only useful to snoop on people, lol.
Tell me about the chick with the fez! Tell it all if you're that bored
Her screenname was cinegirl (or something like that; there may have been numbers).
She had a broken leg and a giant black full-leg cast that she was wearing when we met for drinks. She had to wear it on her wedding day, too.
I had never gone to a GTG. We met at a Latin fusion place. I was the first to arrive. She was the second.
She was wearing a fez.
A fez!
And I was alone!
With this strange woman in a fez!
I think I said something like, "Uh, that is quite a hat." And then I uncomfortably pretended to pore over the happy hour menu, so I didn't have to talk to her while I desperately hoped that another Knottie would show up soon.
When one did, I actually leaped out of my chair and gave her a humongous hug. (For those in the know, this Knottie was our dear lilcee, with whom we are still friends and who came to misotiny's first birthday party recently.) She must've thought I was insane, as we'd never met prior to that moment.
cinegirl had her reception at an Italian restaurant near a Crate & Barrel. For whatever reason, she and her husband got their photos taken all over store as if they were playing house. The best (worst) photo of all was the two of them on a couch. She is looking down at her bouquet. He has his head thrown all the way back on the back of the couch as if he's already exasperated with her the first day of marriage. Meanwhile, you can very clearly tell that they are in a furniture store because the Crate & Barrel tags are prominently displayed on the coffee table and on the couch. It's hard to describe and do this terribly stupid photo justice.
She also came to another GTG with me and wannabe and a few others at a free makeup show at Nordstrom. wan was probably in a cute casual dress. I distinctly remember wearing a Ralph Lauren polo shirt. cinegirl came in nasty linty black sweat pants -- the kind with the elastic cuffs at the ankles. It was...memorable.
Is cosmos around? I believe she got her current job because a recruiter at her company found her through Linkedin.
I have found it very helpful to figure out who I know where. That can be helpful if I'm looking to apply to a job at a company and figure out that someone I know from law school or my old firm or whatever can introduce me to the recruiter/hiring manager/etc. I can't keep track of where everyone is, so Linkedin does it for me.
It is also useful to vet witnesses or whatever.
I accept almost all requests, particularly in the industries I work for. But I have not accepted invitations from complete randoms or, say, the random husband of a random knottie who keeps trying to connect with me.
I did! LinkedIn is a huge resource for recruiters, both internal and external. In my case, an internal recruiter found me. They were trying to fill 3 vacancies for my department for around a year but through regular ads, they weren't finding qualified candidates. (Mainly because my position requires legal knowledge and they weren't targeting lawyers at first....). So the recruiter apparently did a search and since I was a local employment lawyer, he asked me if I knew anyone who would be interested in the job. And I told him I was. I had a phone interview with him that day, and then was recommended to my now boss
I've also gotten contacted to interview for other positions in other companies and law firms over the years.
Its also huge for me to connect with not just random people in my industry, but to connect with senior leadership at my own company. It never hurts to have those people know who you are and when they see me in the cafeteria or in the hall, to recognize me from my picture.
I accepted your invite. Lol. I don't accept everyone. I accept people I "know"- obviously IRL friends, colleagues, former classmates, etc. I'll also accept someone I've met at a networking event, Nesties/GBCN that I recognize, and people who are known in my industry. And anyone who works in corporate at my company. I've gotten requests from call center employees that I support and turned them down. They don't need to know my background as a lawyer (I hide a lot of stuff now until i connect with that person, but I'm hoping to be able to become public again if I get the promotion I am interviewing for next week).
Recruiters definitely use it. I know because they like to stalk actively, and though they call to pitch I can see that they've often already checked my LinkedIn profile. If my firm didn't omit things like graduation year on our bios this might happen less, but in house you probably don't have a bio, so I would assume it's a great tool.
And apparently late to the thread, lol. I'm sorry Miso. This just happened to my husband as well and he flipped out. He had invited competitors who then could see clients he had. He frantically called me and begged to change his settings so no one could see his connections.
Unrelated to all these randoms from The Knot getting invites, I also invited a bunch of concierges and chefs.
This is so embarrassing.
the gm at mo chica once invited me. his invite is still languishing in my inbox.
linkedin is pretty useless in my industry for the types of places at which i tend to work. but most general job websites out there are. i do use it to stalk/see where grad school friends have ended up. useful in case i need a connection at certain places.
otherwise, i get requests from a lot of vendors & subconsultants or would-be vendors & subconsultants.
oh wait, i just got inmail (stupid name!) from a recruiter at sonos. asking me to consider moving to santa barbara or cambridge, ma to do something i have no experience in (obvs from my page) and would never want to do. not even uber!
eta: this thread had me rolling at the memories. ROLLING.