So how exactly do people endorse other people on LinkedIn unless the "nag" screen comes up? and how do you endorse people for a skill that isn't on their profile?
I got a semi-witty endorsement last week and I saw somebody else that got endorsed for "burning things on the barbecue" and "claiming that it's supposed to be that black". You know who you are!
I've had someone thank me for endorsements (from the "nag" screen), who's concerned that if they get any more they'll get a 6-month driving ban. Poised to endorse them for being "as mad as a bucket of frogs", I can't find how. Does anybody know?
Mark are you listening?
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Aha!
There's a little "+" button next to their skills you can use to endorse them for skills they've got listed. I'm still having trouble with the "as mad as a bucket of frogs" endorsement though.
Oh stop it!
This is a genuine skill! Everybody that knows the person in question would agree. It's part of the person's charm.
A humurous "skill" is, I think, a far cry from writing a random obscenity on someone's "wall". Oh no, it's a "time line" these days isn't it?
Besides, a skill of being as mad as a bucket of frogs pales into insignificance compared to the recommendation I've given!
It's only taken me all evening
But I do now know the answer.
On the person' profile there's a big blue "Send a message" button at the top with a drop down arrow next to it. On the drop down menu, there's an "Endorse skills & expertise option".
When you click that, a box appears populated with a handful of skills that aren't currently included on the person's profile. You can leave them or delete them. You can also type in the box, and if what you type matches a skill on the big LinkedIn list of skills, you can add it and endorse them for it.
They do get to approve it before it gets added to their profile.
Sadly, even after I'd tried adding it to my own profile, "as mad as a bucket of frogs" didn't appear on the big LinkedIn list, so I couldn't add it. I could have selected "Badboy", "Git", "Mad", "Long hair", "Ambulatory" and a few others that made me chuckle just because they were even there.
Still I know how it works now.
I think the "burning things on a barbecue" and "claiming it's supposed to be that black" may have been added by the endorsee in question!
Thank you Steve!
I find Linked in very difficult to use and I know lots of other people do too.
One other thing...
... that I did discover in my quest for mischief.
If you scroll down the home page far enough it eventually stops adding "new" updates and you will get to click the "Help Center" [sic] link at the bottom of the page, which is quite helpful. It would be more helpful if they put the link at the top of the page, obviously.
But the 'real' endorsements are anything but!
Being an old misery, am I alone in finding that the endorsement thing has watered down usefulness of LinkedIn? Being endorsed for skills that the person has no way of knowing is a complete farce! I am pleased if a client endorses me for accountancy, but how can an acquaintance have any idea??
Bah, humbug!
I quite agree
Until recently LinkedIn was an oasis of sensibility. It has been seriously devalued by the Facebook and Twitter mindset of users. And don't get me started on the reciprocal series of endorsements that take place between colleagues in the same office. Nauseating!Being an old misery, am I alone in finding that the endorsement thing has watered down usefulness of LinkedIn?
Endorsements
Being an old misery, am I alone in finding that the endorsement thing has watered down usefulness of LinkedIn? Being endorsed for skills that the person has no way of knowing is a complete farce! I am pleased if a client endorses me for accountancy, but how can an acquaintance have any idea??
Bah, humbug!
Yes I agree. I have been endorsed for all sorts of skills recently by someone I met at a networking event a few years ago!! I have never performed any of these skills / worked for him, anyone reckon he is after some favours back soon??
endorsements + recommendations
if you have both endorsements and recommendations then that's the way to go - I refer potential clients to my LinkedIn page as a source of client references and they seem to like it as a way of checking that I am not a complete chump - the combination of both endorsements and several written recommendations of my work seems to do the trick :-)