{"id":59,"date":"2009-03-10T05:35:57","date_gmt":"2009-03-10T10:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=59"},"modified":"2009-03-10T05:35:57","modified_gmt":"2009-03-10T10:35:57","slug":"i-got-a-job-through-linkedin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2009\/03\/i-got-a-job-through-linkedin\/","title":{"rendered":"I Got a Job through LinkedIn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n<p>I just got a job through <a href=\"http:\/\/linkedin.com\">LinkedIn<\/a>. That Web 2.0 stuff may actually work.<\/p>\n<p>I retired from my government job several months ago after 28 years of &#8220;government service&#8221; (as we fondly like to call it). I had some skills and qualifications and wanted to work a few more years, and my wife didn&#8217;t want me hanging around the house all day. I did all the right things:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>went to job fairs<\/li>\n<li>scoured the Internet<\/li>\n<li>put my resume on a few dozen company web sites<\/li>\n<li>went to careers.you-name-the-company.com<\/li>\n<li>worked with a professional recruiter<\/li>\n<li>gave my resume to all my personal contacts in industry<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Nothing of substance happened. Everyone I met was courteous and professional. I really met a lot of good people. Everyone I met loved my qualifications; you should have seen their faces light up. Everyone I met assured me they would put my resume in front of their customers; I trust they all did that.<\/p>\n<p>No one I met called me back with a firm job offer; they all called back with &#8220;contingent&#8221; job offers.<\/p>\n<p>In the midst of these months of searching in vain, I weekly updated my LinkedIn profile. LinkedIn sent me emails about this person and that person who I may know. Most of these had something to do with the geographic region. I always clicked the button to invite these people to be my &#8220;friends&#8221; or &#8220;contacts&#8221; or whatever LinkedIn calls the people it links you to.<\/p>\n<p>One of these LinkedIn linked-to-or-whatever-you-call-them people emailed me asking for my home phone. I sent it back to him. A few days later he woke me from my afternoon nap (a perk of retirement) with a phone call. He wanted to talk to me. I remembered him from a few years ago, but couldn&#8217;t understand why his company would want to talk to me.<\/p>\n<p>We met for a few hours. He called me back. We met again for a few hours. He called me back. I got the impression he wanted me to come to work for him. He sent me a real (not a contingent) job offer. I accepted on Friday and went to work yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>So, maybe LinkedIn and these other Web 2.0 concepts work. I was surprised. See me on LinkedIn under &#8220;Dwayne Phillips.&#8221; LinkedIn didn&#8217;t ask me to write this blog. They didn&#8217;t pay me anything to write this blog. It is okay with me if you show this blog entry to LinkedIn as then perhaps they would pay me something \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips I just got a job through LinkedIn. That Web 2.0 stuff may actually work. I retired from my government job several months ago after 28 years of &#8220;government service&#8221; (as we fondly like to call it). I had some skills and qualifications and wanted to work a few more years, and my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,19],"tags":[140,141],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employment","category-web-20","tag-employment","tag-web-20"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions\/60"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}