I read Alistair Blair’s article on LinkedIn (Bloggers with Bite, Recruiter, February 2013) with great interest and think his criticism of the site was fair. I feel it is a shame that LinkedIn (LI) is focusing its efforts purely on being a recruitment site — it used to be primarily a networking site and some members have the right to feel like they have been misled. The quantity of spam that LI produced for its members is intolerable and recruiters who want to get success from using it should purely use it as a name generation tool and focus on traditional headhunting methods – ie pick up the phone!

Finally, I feel that LI is missing a trick. They are trying to stack adverts high and sell them cheap and here is where the problem lies — this should be a premium function with a premium price; less is more to the advertiser and the viewer.

Jon Dweck, managing director, Pod Talent

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