Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter encourages you to give endorsements on LinkedIn in order to get endorsements on LinkedIn.
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Here’s a way to really stand out from your competition.
Understand that there are a lot of recruiters both corporate and third-party recruiters who are using a product called LinkedIn Recruiter to identify candidates on the web. What we are doing is going out there to evaluate skills and (1) search engine optimizing your profile with keywords that might be used as part of the search for what you do is a big part of how you might become visible. Another way to stand out is by receiving endorsements.
You can ask your entire network to endorse you, but, frankly, you look like a mooch when you do that. I want to suggest that you reach out by giving endorsements. Remember the old saying, “Give more. Get more.” Giving endorsements, particularly to those who know you so that they profit by the relationship, will help you get endorsements back in return.
I want to say that there is reciprocity because I don’t give endorsements because I don’t really know the work that you do. I don’t sit next to you. I’m a coach. I’ve done recruiting. If I give endorsements, people will believe that your entire list of endorsements is bogus!, Instead, I want to encourage you to give endorsements to those who you have a basis of judging their work. Complement people.
You’ll discover that your number of endorsements will increase. Knowing that there is a bias that recruiters and employers have toward passive candidates, you will look like the superior person to them by having large numbers of endorsements. After all, when you think about it, when you look at my LinkedIn profile and see that I have been endorsed 500 some odd times for one attribute or another, there is a message and that, especially, especially when you notice that the average recruiter may have fewer than 20.
Stand out from my work because people have seen it and like it. Look for that same thing, too, but give it in order to get it.
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