Some say it's a must especially if you got both of your degrees from overseas; so you need recommendations from locals to overcome that and bring more credibility to your LinkedIn; attract recruiters so to speak.
I see your point but don't you think those recommendations will market your profile for recruiters/head hunters to reach out and introduce you somehow to the hiring managers ?
I'm happy where I'm today and not in rush to go somewhere else anytime soon. Besides; I think most of the applications go to the trash as long as there is no referral or recruiter/head hunter to push it to the hiring managers. In other words, I've been told that LinkedIn can be useful per some career coach training which I had from my previous employer part of the layoff package...
My experience has been that your title, tenure, and company drive the solicitations. Used to have no recommendations, now have 4. No difference in solicitation frequency between pre/post. My switching roles and thus titles did lead to a drop off in solicitations though. FYI US educated
Not really. I don't think they matter too much. I hardly look at recommendations when browsing through someones profile.
It’s something good to have. I would say it would impress when someone in the same industry look you up on LinkedIn than recruiters. To attract recruiters you just need to put some good job description/title/relevant keywords so it would pop up when the recruiters use the search feature
A few will probably add a little validation when someone looks at your profile but I wouldn’t call it a must. It felt like it was more of a thing 3-4 years ago.
So you think it was a trending thing back then; but not anymore?