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CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone âš2â© âšmonthsâ© ago
I have a serious question. My husband has received an email from management. They want to âshowcaseâ him on LinkedIn. We donât even know what LinkedIn is really about.
What are the pros and cons of doing this? If he agrees what should/shouldnât he do?
LinkedIn IS Facebook these days. It used to be work-related now itâs people posting crap with a tangible connection to the work/business world.
I would ask for a draft of whatever they plan to post to approve before they go ahead, to make sure youâre happy with what gets posted.
If anyoneâs still on Reddit, r/LinkedInLunatics is a fun read. We have one here too, but itâs not super active
It sounds like a fine gesture, others have accurately spoken about what the platform is (corporate facebook).
I killed my LinkedIn years ago because it seemed to just be a place for people to be fake and virtue signal all day to self-promote and I canât STAND that nonsense.
But Iâd just think of it as them wanting to post a news article to the corporate world about how cool he is. Nothing to stress about.
Like people are saying, itâs facebook for âcorporateâ or similar. Really fucking cringey.
Workplace wants to use him as a promo for something.
His real name and work details will be online for people to see.
Thatâs pretty much it.
That platform recently had a bad data breach. My work is mandating a certain number of their courses per year. I refuse to join, so there are now group viewing sessions of their (largely useless) videos.
I refuse to join most of these apps as well
My immediate reaction: âShowcaseâ him how?
Is this just a LinkedIn post? A video? An article on the company website thatâs linked to on LI? Something else?
Maybe clarify with them? It could mean making a profile whereby he is identifiable by name and workplace etc.
It can be made so that you have to be logged into LI to access, but yeah, thatâs the gist. Some fields love it for networking/jobs etc.
Not my tumbler, but different horses, you know.
Nath@aussie.zone âš2â© âšmonthsâ© ago
LinkedIn is like Facebook for business. Itâs full of useless content extolling the virtues of putting your workplace ahead of your personal life. Things like âI am on holiday on this tropical island but had a killer idea, so I am now at a shared workspace networking with professionalsâ etc.
Unfortunately, if you are looking for a job in IT, LinkedIn is one of the likely places to find it - so a LinkedIn profile is sort-of required in some fields. I hate that it is sorta necessary, because itâs the one place on the Internet where I am listed under my real name.
If his employer wants to âshowcaseâ him, it means they want to brag about him on the network. They are trying to make the company look better. To customers? To prospective employees? To government? I donât know, potentially all of the above.
Maybe your husband is a leader in his field and they want to entice rookies to work at the place so they get a chance to work with your husband. Maybe he has done something cool they want to brag about? Maybe theyâre a tiny company that nobody has heard of so theyâll showcase some employees to look more legit? I honestly donât know.
If my employer wanted to showcase me, Iâd hesitate. I might concede, but Iâd need a bit of time to think about it. It could be a good thing: if I have an employer bragging about me, it would probably make me look good to future employers. If someone Googled my name though, this will come up. I may not want people to know where I work and what I do.
Short version: This is something they want. It may or may not be something your husband wants.