On 2013-10-25 at 09:17 -0600, Yves Dorfsman wrote: > I've used linkedin for three reasons:
The same three for me; notably though, from what I see the SF startup scene has largely switched to wanting to know your GitHub account so that your portfolio can be reviewed. If you have open source work, whether it's code or Puppet configs or documentation, demonstrating that you know git well enough to maintain a GitHub account and to keep things running using it is becoming increasingly important to employability in this crowd. Which, in the IT sector, _tends_ to influence which way the rest of the sector behaves, although with a bit of a lead time. Whereas if you're user facing, I for one would look to see if there's a StackExchange profile for you (ServerFault, SuperUser or an OS specific stack), to try and get a feel for how you answer questions of varying degrees of sophistication and how tactful you can be. SE has a Careers section. LinkedIn remains popular outside of IT and with recruiters, because of some of the powerful tools they provide to recruiters, but for referral-based hiring in IT they're in danger of losing relevance to GitHub and StackExchange. -Phil _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
