Does LinkedIn make you look good?

[Jaedon]

When using sites like linked in or websites that advertise yourself and your skills, does it look good? Or does it just look like you're boasting about how awesome your resume is online. I strongly doubt people make connections through linkedin and when you submit your resume to employers...you've already submitted you resume so there's no need for them to see it yet again on your linkedin account. Despite having my fair share of accomplishments myself, whenever I see a friend with an extraordinarily thorough linkedin account, it looks as through they're boasting and trying to receive praise and acknowledgment for this accomplishments rather than remaining modest. At the same time, I guess it does help create a name in the online world...but it's rather redundant when employers already see your resume...

is there something im missing...it's just. I'm wondering whether or not I should update my linkedin account. Is there a benefit? Or will it just envoke jealousy and make my peers negatively regard me?

[694]

I think LinkedIn is a useful networking tool for some people. For those people, it makes sense to have a detailed profile listing all of their skills and achievements, because that increases the number of potential matches that will come up when someone else searches in LinkedIn.

So when I see someone like that in LinkedIn, I don't think they're boasting, and I don't think negatively of them; rather I just assume they are trying to make the most of using LinkedIn. The fact that they have a detailed profile really doesn't affect either way my inclination to contact them or network with them.

But there is something else that people do on LinkedIn which I *do* dislike - which is when people I don't know, and who are really not connected to me, want to connect with me (for instance, someone who knows someone who I worked with 5 years ago but who I was never really friends with). I view those people the same way I view people on Facebook who have hundreds of friends - I just think they're shallow.

[melissa]

Yeah, you should update your LinkedIn account. It has over 200 million users worldwide and has now made it easier for users to go about their site by simplifying the navigation bar.