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"We'll pay you $1,500 per year to drop your LinkedIn account"

6 points by hoodoof ↗ HN
"We'll pay you $1,500 per year to drop your LinkedIn account"

Employers pay big money to recruit people. How about they start to pay their employees NOT ot be on LinkedIn to stop the recruiters sniffing around.

Does anyone think we'll start to see employers paying employees to "disappear" from sites like LinkedIn?

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geophile
I'll take that. I haven't found LinkedIn useful for anything other than getting LinkedIn invitations.
AznHisoka
Me too. Colleagues keep adding me like they want to collect Pokemon. The only thing I find useful is the LinkedIn Groups.
acoyfellow
I would hate to be controlled so much. They better pay me a lot of money to "restrict my freedom" so much.

Unless I was breaking some sort of ethical/moral code of the business, then it's stupid to try and control the personal life of people. That is just me though.

andymoe
You could not pay me enough to stop networking and that's basically what you are asking me to do. Changing jobs comes with a significant salary increase usually (or you are doing it wrong) Agreeing to a deal like this would be foolish.
adziki
I think it's a tough sell as networking can also help companies to broaden horizons, make new business leads, and grow. Is there any research into employees who leave based on LinkedIn contacts rather than just searching a dice.com or monster.com?
tocomment
I never hear from recruiters on linked in. Am I doing something wrong?
bks
Chances are that yes you are doing something wrong...if you goal is to attract recruiters. Linkedin has some secrets just like any other platform and one of them is that recruiters tend to like 2nd or 3rd level connections so that they can see who you network with.

There are also ways to add keywords to your profile that make it easier for them to search by certain competencies or experience.

The number of recruiter requests that I get has increased steadily as I have increased the size of my network. Once you hit over 500 connections it seems to be a tipping point.

There are some other settings that indicate that you are open for conversations on hiring, business opportunities etc - that make it easier for them to contact you. Good luck.

devs1010
Put your email address somewhere in your profile and you will get people contacting you, most people do it like emailadd [at] something [dot] com, etc to keep the most simplistic bots from spamming. You will get a bunch of crap messages but it at least gets a lot of people to add you, etc.. its worth it if you want to grow your network, I had mine on there for a while but then got tired of the noise so I took it off and have noticed messages have slowed down considerably.
[dead] akashicflow
Yahh!!!!! the CIA needs it's worker database not going to happen until someone bringsthem to their knees. A.
fourmii
I got my current job from LinkedIn, and my network isn't all that big. I actually use LI for keeping up to date on industries and certain interests via the groups. So, no, there would be no incentive that would keep me off my personal networking. Besides, where do you think alot of these recruiters go to find talent?
rms
I'll do it for $50.
alex_g
I'll do it for $1. Let me know if you're interested.