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« on: February 17, 2012, 12:23:10 PM » |
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I keep a fairly up-to-date LinkedIn profile. Any opinions on whether it is good, bad, or otherwise to connect with faculty I've met at my interviews, particularly the ones where I've not heard about offer or rejection? It seems like it can't hurt but I don't want to do anything to hurt my chances. The only negative I can think of is that I might come off as desperate, but I don't think it will be perceived that way.
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bacardiandlime
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« Reply #1 on: February 17, 2012, 12:34:10 PM » |
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Wait until the search process is over. Then you can connect with them, but don't ask them anything about why you didn't get the job (unless you did, in which case they are your colleagues now, so connect away :)
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YOU ARE NASTY
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heptameron
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« Reply #2 on: February 18, 2012, 12:13:31 PM » |
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Don't try to connect via LinkedIn or any other online social media (or offline) with faculty at an institution at which you campus-interviewed. If they try to connect with you, then okay, sure, accept the invitation if you want.
But do not initiate anything --and certainly not before you have accepted the position. Even then, it sounds premature. It also sounds like it lacks what some forumites call "social competence" in that it could be easily interpreted as presumptuous insofar as it sends the message to your interviewers that you consider yourself their equal and their colleague in cyberspace.
Even more potentially damaging for you would be the moment when your interviewers (all the faculty you met) receive the invitation and then have to decide whether to ignore it or react to it in some way. Do you really wish to put anyone in such an awkward position?
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larryc
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« Reply #3 on: February 18, 2012, 12:20:10 PM » |
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Noooooooooooooooooo!
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marlborough
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« Reply #4 on: February 18, 2012, 06:27:11 PM » |
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Long before your interview, please have an accessible website with your current interests and research--I'm a book review editor and the last couple of months looking for likely reviewers has shown me the good, bad and ugly of department websites. A short, searchable couple of paragraphs and a working email address may well bring you offers of free books and conference panels if someone searching keywords can actually find you!
Grad students--if your department has a page for you, take advantage of it!
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« Reply #5 on: February 18, 2012, 06:31:24 PM » |
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Here's the thing about LinkedIn.
It doesn't operate the way academics do. It operates the way businesspeople do. Don't use it to make academic connections. It's presumptuous, and unpleasant.
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hikingprof
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« Reply #6 on: February 18, 2012, 11:48:48 PM » |
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Absolutely do not do this. This may vary by institution and discipline, but none of the faculty I know outside of business/economics use LinkedIn. The last thing you want to be remembered as is the person who signed the SC members up for spam emails about using an unwanted new social networking service.
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janewales
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« Reply #7 on: February 19, 2012, 11:10:56 AM » |
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I am currently being pestered by a LinkedIn request to join the "professional network" of someone I don't think I know at all. I do not use LinkedIn, and these persistent reminders are making me view it as something akin to a spam generator.
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« Reply #8 on: February 19, 2012, 01:10:47 PM » |
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I agree - this seems really desperate to me.
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« Reply #9 on: February 19, 2012, 07:47:13 PM » |
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Absolutely do not do this. This may vary by institution and discipline, but none of the faculty I know outside of business/economics use LinkedIn. The last thing you want to be remembered as is the person who signed the SC members up for spam emails about using an unwanted new social networking service.
I do know people outside of business/economics who are on LinkedIn, but it's still a weird thing to do since the network is so small that it's more like a wish to get in on the ground floor in case LinkedIn takes off in the field rather than a useful way to network. |
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If you haven't got either the anatomical or metaphorical balls to post your own question on a pseudonymous internet forum, then academia is the wrong job for you.
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« Reply #10 on: February 19, 2012, 08:16:45 PM » |
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Asking for connections with contacts from a recent interview is a bad idea.
Linkedin in general is a great idea, as a place to offload student friend requests into an appropriate arena.
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tuala
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« Reply #11 on: February 19, 2012, 08:26:36 PM » |
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Maybe you could follow them on academia.edu (if they are there) - perhaps they will then follow you.
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« Reply #12 on: February 19, 2012, 09:49:45 PM » |
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Linked-in? Ugh - ick.
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bcohlan1
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« Reply #13 on: February 19, 2012, 10:17:32 PM » |
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Related question: is it bad form to follow someone on academia.edu after you've been formally rejected for a position at their institution? I wouldn't do it while an active candidate for obvious reasons, but it's hard to see how following them after the fact could be construed as a machination (and, in fact, I am just interested in this handy way of following these people's research).
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Basically the moral of the story is that bcohlan1 is talking out of his ass again.
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postdocker
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« Reply #14 on: February 19, 2012, 11:25:22 PM » |
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Well thanks for the advice. I suppose I won't be adding anyone. However, I'm surprised by the very negative reaction to LinkedIn here. There is quite a disconnect from what I observe in my field and what I read here. I know many faculty, including senior faculty and administration, who maintain active LinkedIn profiles. On the other hand, I'd never heard of academia.edu before I came to this forum and I haven't found a single person that I know on there. FYI my field is a STEM field and not business/economics related.
@hikingprof and janewales - Of course I would never invite someone to join LinkedIn and expose them to spam. I'd only EVER consider adding them if they already maintained an active profile, which is quite easy to see.
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