social media, or something

[redbird]

No, LinkedIn, I am not going to accept "endorsements" for skills that I do not in fact have. One of them is a thing that I have never done in my life.

Yes, people are trying to help, but having to answer an email from someone who says "I see you have copywriting experience. Tell me about it" with "actually, I don't" isn't going to get me work. It's just going to waste my time, and the hypothetical recruiter's, and possibly make me look bad.

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[flick]

I have never understood why people do this. If I were a recruiter, I don't think I'd pay any attention to them, because I'm forever getting random endorsements!

[azurelunatic]

LinkedIn likes to suggest random things that you *might* know along with the things that you've *said* you know, in their "hey, does this person know this thing?" unless you know the right setting to twitch. And if you don't know LinkedIn super well, you're like "Oh, if LinkedIn is putting it in front of me to endorse, that must mean they know it, so I'll endorse them for it, because clearly they'd not list it themselves if they didn't know it!"

And, just. No. *headdesk*

[flick]

Ah, ok: that makes *slightly* more sense. Still, though!

[ethelmay.livejournal.com]

I think most recruiters must know about such LinkedIn weirdness. (I don't think I knew one could refuse endorsements, now that I think about it. I have three for "publishing," which, well, as a SKILL, no. I think the endorsers must have thought they were endorsing me in a general AREA.)

[redbird]

I'm not sure you can reject endorsements explicitly, but if I read the emails right they don't show unless you accept them. (Like sites where the options for friend/connection requests are "accept" and "maybe later" but you can't say "I don't know who this is" or "I never want to hear from this person again.")

[ethelmay.livejournal.com]

Turns out if you hover over the list of "skills and endorsements" there is an edit symbol by each thing, and if you click to edit that thing there is an X to delete it if desired.