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Employer looked at my LinkedIn ?

Post by Anonymous User » Wed Mar 19, 2014 8:35 pm

So I applied for a summer internship, and supposedly the company is in the process of conducting interviews for the next few weeks. I noticed this morning that the employer viewed my LinkedIn page, but I haven't received any email offer yet. Should I assume I haven't gotten the gig?

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Re: Employer looked at my LinkedIn ?

Post by gdane » Wed Mar 19, 2014 9:34 pm

Anonymous User wrote:So I applied for a summer internship, and supposedly the company is in the process of conducting interviews for the next few weeks. I noticed this morning that the employer viewed my LinkedIn page, but I haven't received any email offer yet. Should I assume I haven't gotten the gig?
No friend. It's been less than 24 hours since this employer visited your page. Probably just snooping around. Don't read tea leaves.

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Re: Employer looked at my LinkedIn ?

Post by dirkdigler » Wed Mar 19, 2014 9:40 pm

After a callback I had an employer not only view my Linkedin profile, but also "friend" me. A few days later I received my ding.

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Re: Employer looked at my LinkedIn ?

Post by Danger Zone » Wed Mar 19, 2014 9:41 pm

The place I'll be at this summer looked at my LinkedIn profile after my callback. You really can't read into it at all.

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Re: Employer looked at my LinkedIn ?

Post by TTRansfer » Wed Mar 19, 2014 11:19 pm

dirkdigler wrote:After a callback I had an employer not only view my Linkedin profile, but also "friend" me. A few days later I received my ding.
Haha. That's pretty fucked up.

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Re: Employer looked at my LinkedIn ?

Post by TTRansfer » Wed Mar 19, 2014 11:20 pm

The firm I will be working at never looked at me and I had to search out people I worked with over the summer to add.

So as you can see, it's all over the map.

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Re: Employer looked at my LinkedIn ?

Post by UnfrozenCaveman » Wed Mar 19, 2014 11:55 pm

Seems weird for potential employers to be looking at your social media profiles. Could be finding out info they aren't supposed to know.

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Re: Employer looked at my LinkedIn ?

Post by itachiuchiha » Wed Mar 19, 2014 11:58 pm

Anonymous User wrote:So I applied for a summer internship, and supposedly the company is in the process of conducting interviews for the next few weeks. I noticed this morning that the employer viewed my LinkedIn page, but I haven't received any email offer yet. Should I assume I haven't gotten the gig?

they want the d

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Re: Employer looked at my LinkedIn ?

Post by UMich11 » Thu Mar 20, 2014 12:06 am

UnfrozenCaveman wrote:Seems weird for potential employers to be looking at your social media profiles. Could be finding out info they aren't supposed to know.
I put both links to Facebook and LinkedIn on my resume. There are multiple people on the internet with same first/last name and some a pretty weird so I don't want them to look and be turned-off.

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Re: Employer looked at my LinkedIn ?

Post by BVest » Thu Mar 20, 2014 12:09 am

UnfrozenCaveman wrote:Seems weird for potential employers to be looking at your social media profiles. Could be finding out info they aren't supposed to know.
Why have a LinkedIn profile if not for potential employers to be looking at it? Potential employment is the only reason I put up with all the LinkedIn spam.

ETA: And god help you if you put info that employers aren't supposed to know on your LinkedIn profile.
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Re: Employer looked at my LinkedIn ?

Post by TTRansfer » Thu Mar 20, 2014 1:00 am

itachiuchiha wrote:
Anonymous User wrote:So I applied for a summer internship, and supposedly the company is in the process of conducting interviews for the next few weeks. I noticed this morning that the employer viewed my LinkedIn page, but I haven't received any email offer yet. Should I assume I haven't gotten the gig?

they want the d
They didn't Myspace him, dude.

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