Thought-provoking Things Worth Sharing - Issue #114
Should You Update Your LinkedIn Profile When Starting a New Job?
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There’s a link later in the newsletter this week about using LinkedIn well when job-searching, but I also saw another bit of advice this week in another post, that I can no longer remember where that has stuck in my brain.
The advice was not to do the one thing we all do, especially those of us affected by layoffs, and spent some months searching, updating our profile, and announcing the new position when we started. Their recommendation was to wait 90 days.
In a way this makes sense. Why announce something, have second thoughts, or have it turn out to be a bad fit, and then have to explain what happened to your network?
But I had one question that was left unanswered. As an employer, if you hire someone and 30-60 days later you can see that they’ve never added the position to their LinkedIn profile, but are otherwise active on the platform, doesn’t that become a red flag for you?
Does that lack of an update more than a couple of weeks after starting suggest they are hedging their bets on the position, maybe even continuing to look for another one, force you to wonder if you should be hedging your bets too? Maybe that looks like not assigning them to any long-term projects, or not investing a lot of time in development and mentoring.
And is that any way for an employee relationship to work?
How would you view an employee who refused to update their LinkedIn profile 2-3 months after you hired them?
Careers and the Workplace
Linked - Gen Z Workers Aren't the Problem. the Rest of Us Are.
The promise of working hard and being rewarded is hard to swallow when you've seen Gen X and Millenials work hard and get absolutely nowhere. Forced to start over again and again as successive organizations let them go, or went under, while the people who ran those organizations got paid millions.
Speaking of young workers, this is related to the above - Young Workers Don't Want to Become Managers — and This Study Uncovers the Reason Why.
As promised, some solid LinkedIn advice gathered in one place by Hannah Morgan - How to Use LinkedIn Effectively During Your Job Search (From the pros)
If they sacrifice and put in the emotional work of being a fully engaged employee and doing the work that helps the company succeed, there'd better be more than a yearly 2% raise and a pizza party to celebrate. Especially when Don in the cubicle across from them left at 5 every day, did the bare minimum to keep his job, and got the same 2% raise. There had better be a path forward for all the hard work, otherwise, they're just wasting time and effort here.
Training and Development
Who Is Responsible For Your Career Development?
You. your employer and your boss can support your development, and good employers will offer to help, but at the end of the day, they will only do what is in their best interests. You are responsible for the rest.
Mental Health in the Workplace
Are you feeling lonely? You're not alone—strategies for addressing loneliness epidemic at work. - And no, everyone returning to office isn't necessarily the answer here. Plenty of people are lonely in the office too.
Get them aware early - 10 Quick Self-Care Tips for New Lawyers
Privacy, Security, and Legal Tech
We sort of knew this would come out eventually, right? - iPhones have been exposing your unique MAC despite Apple’s promises otherwise
Never a bad time for a refresher - Cybersecurity Awareness Month: A Basic Primer to Keep Your Data & Information Safe
Cybersecurity is Important for Small Business Too. - The number of times I’ve heard that small business isn’t a target for hacker gangs versus the number of people I know working in small businesses with ransomware stories. I wonder which is higher?
It was Halloween this week - eDiscovery Horror Stories 2023
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