Kicks and Kisses

LinkedIn has become a marketing tool for working professionals. At the same time it has also become a great tool for potential recruiters to find out/cross check the candidature. More and more consultants are trying to add you in their network. You approve it and you get a call next minute for a Job opportunity in xyz company.

I just thought about the “Trust” keyword regarding LinkedIn profiles. How accurate are people in writing about their title, work experience, skills, breaks etc. These types of discrepancies are always there. People write wrong information in their CV’s too. But one can discover the same while interviewing a potential candidate.

I came across one such profile. I knew the person and his profile in his current company. He is a senior software engineer but he wrote his role as Manager in LinkedIn profile. Later some people in his organization complained against him to management and he changed his profile on LinkedIn.

Recommendation is one of the great tools. But some how I feel it’s not that efficient. I have lots of endorsement requests pending in my inbox. I will endorse all of them one day, may be when I need such endorsements. I endorsed you so please endorse me. But if somebody writes about you it works like magic

Simpler tools can be design to give credential to one candidate. Credential can bring trust factor in particular profile. This credential can be given by people in your network, people outside of your network, old manager, new manager, technical person who interviewed you once, a consultant who talked to you once. There could be number of ways to do it. Statistical equations can serve as back bone for such tool and make great results.

At the same time there could be social implications of such tools. Even there is a possibility of frauds in any such tool. But an Intelligent credential tool can really help potential recruiter to quickly identify a right candidate.