Wanted to get your take on
LinkedIn endorsements. I've got a lot of great endorsements from people I've worked with.
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Do you think there's a place for them on my resume? Obviously all the endorsements are going to be positive because the person has to approve them, but I think mine are especially strong. Maybe as a one-page addendum? Or a line that references it on my resume?
I suspect that recruiters like you would do the search and see if you have people in common (that's what I do when recruiting) and see them anyway. But most recruiters aren't that thorough.
Thanks,
Rocky
The endorsements are nice, but I think a better way to handle them would be as a reference in your cover letter.
A page of LinkedIn endorsements, lifted out of their natural context, might be viewed as odd or as padding.
They speak well for you within LinkedIn, but they lose a lot of their meaning and significance when presented separately.
That will especially be the case when presented to prospective employers who do not use LinkedIn.
(For more about online communities, read Pat Walters' recent
Poynter piece on journalists and Facebook.)
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