LinkedIn Decides Recommends Aren't Worthless Enough, Adds Endorsement Gamification

Jeremy Goldman says:

October 29, 2012 at 7:42 pm

Appreciate the tutorial, Chris – but I’d personally love to hear more about why you think LinkedIn recommendations aren’t useful. Most of my business leads and jobs have come from people seeing my LinkedIn recommendations. I think endorsements do have some major issues, especially as they don’t necessarily consider how close the endorser and endorsee have been from a work perspective.

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- Chris Voss says:
  
  October 29, 2012 at 10:48 pm
  
  Jeremy, I’m happy to hear it works for you. Given the amount of recommendations that are hustled or traded in Social Media I dont put much stock in them. Thats my opinion and I’ve polled many users about it. But being an employer for 25 years I dont put much stock in references either. If you get business from it, all the more power to you.
  
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LinkedIn Decides Recommends Aren’t Worthless Enough, Adds Endorsement Gamification