Whilst Linkedin is a vital tool, if one of my candidates sent me a link to their linkedin page when I ask for a copy of their CV I wouldn't bother helping them and I would tell them as much.
If you can't go to the effort of compiling a detailed CV for me to send to my clients then I can't be bothered going to the effort to try and get you an interview with people who pay me top dollar to find the strongest, hungriest applicants.
If I sent a linkedin page to an employer instead of a candidates CV I am almost certain they wouldn't even bother looking at it.
As far as I know, LinkedIn makes most of its money by selling access to recruiters. There's definitely automated software that spiders LinkedIn to make it easy for recruiters to search - but they're still going to want a CV to send to their clients.
I was asked some time ago to provide my CV and I also used a pdf export of linkedin cause it's such a simple option.
I believe it's a bit lacking in some areas eg, I recall it does not have anything about human languages (when you are moving around in europe that is kind of useful). I may be wrong though.
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Thanks for your offer!
Currently I do not really have a CV anymore, I link to my linkedin or make a dump of my linkedin to doc/pdf.
What do you think of this practice?
Anyone else who has opinions on "moving the CV to linkedin"?
Whilst Linkedin is a vital tool, if one of my candidates sent me a link to their linkedin page when I ask for a copy of their CV I wouldn't bother helping them and I would tell them as much.
If you can't go to the effort of compiling a detailed CV for me to send to my clients then I can't be bothered going to the effort to try and get you an interview with people who pay me top dollar to find the strongest, hungriest applicants.
If I sent a linkedin page to an employer instead of a candidates CV I am almost certain they wouldn't even bother looking at it.
As far as I know, LinkedIn makes most of its money by selling access to recruiters. There's definitely automated software that spiders LinkedIn to make it easy for recruiters to search - but they're still going to want a CV to send to their clients.
I was asked some time ago to provide my CV and I also used a pdf export of linkedin cause it's such a simple option.
I believe it's a bit lacking in some areas eg, I recall it does not have anything about human languages (when you are moving around in europe that is kind of useful). I may be wrong though.
i too missed that option in linkedin!