Ask HN: The value/impact of listing many roles or topics on LinkedIn profile?

3 points by aruanavekar 3 years ago | 3 comments

Here are some examples of LI profiles

Ex-company names Ex-titles Degree / collage alumni

Tech Founder and Innovator. Co-Founder, C-suite - Startups. Technology/Digital Officer of the Year. Speaker and Thought Leader in #saastech, #digitaltech #digitaltransformation. Global Advisor & Mentor.

PaulHoule 3 years ago |

In those particular cases I think every title is a warning sign for pathologcal narcissism. If people are going to see it that way, one title is enough. If they aren’t going to see it that way you could clobber them with 50 titles and they still won’t get it.

Note that these aren’t diluted with any real accomplishments (though Baudrillard taught us that the use of the world ‘real” is itself a danger sign.). They are not a ‘public speaker about ancient rome’ or somebody who ‘grew revenue of a company 475% in three years’, etc.

logicalmonster 3 years ago | |

> In those particular cases I think every title is a warning sign for pathologcal narcissism.

That's one potential explanation.

But another explanation is along the lines of SEO keyword stuffing.

We all are aware that jobs tend to use dumb keyword filters to whittle down the numbers of applicants.

This is why everybody lists every dumb technology and job title on their resume just to bypass these filters.

PaulHoule 3 years ago | | |

Is anybody really searching for those keywords though? (E.g. “public speaker”… I spent just enough time in academia to be ahead of of 95% of those chumps because if I have 15 minutes to speak I shut my trap at 15 minutes and let the next speaker speak.)

I deleted my LinkedIn account because it was bringing me more bullshit artists, salespeople who couldn’t sel and people would set up meetings with domain experts and ignore what they say than I could deal with.