Quote: (08-19-2013 10:30 PM)Cattle Rustler Wrote:
How useful is it for a fresh grad or student?
My profile is okay, got some unrelated work but related internship experience.
Out of the 4 invites from people that I got:
2 - Students, not much value there
1 - Former FB, different field than me.
1 - My dentist, dude lives 1000 miles away in Mexico City.
If I put the "search my email" function, I'll get some okay people (experienced, not C-level) in Mexico (I'm in Texas).
If you are young you are not going to get passive interest from recruiters and HR people. Once you hit the 2ish years mark, that's when you might start getting hit up. That's certainly when it happened for me.
When you're a fresh grad you have to be proactively using Linkedin to join groups and discussions and, if you want to cough up the cash, send direct private inmails to MDs at companies to get a foot in the door for internships and interviews.