LinkedIn is the world’s largest professional network, and like other sites such as Twitter, Facebook, and others, it’s attracting various types of scammers, fraudsters, and even spy agencies.

They are creating fake LinkedIn profiles for various reasons; I tried to cover those reasons in my article “Top 11 Reasons Why Fake LinkedIn Profiles Exist.”

And now I want to share with you several tips for spotting a fake LinkedIn profile.

1. Fake Photos

Often, you will come across a profile that is using the picture of some well-known actor or maybe of someone you have seen many times on the internet. Does it ring a bell? You need to be smart and understand that fake accounts use pictures of others to make themselves prominent, so beware if you encounter such a profile. …

When your phone rings and you don’t recognize the number, in most cases you just ignore the call instead of accepting it. But you probably start asking yourself, “Who called me?” and wonder whether you should accept it or call back.

But before you call back, you should try to find who called you so you know if it’s another scam or telemarketing call or if it was something else that deserves your attention.

There are several easy steps to find out who called you for free, yet sometimes it can take several minutes to check all those sources. Even though those methods are free there are several websites and applications that will reveal the name of the person or company behind that number after you pay for their service. …

Did you know that a good employee experience affects the productivity and profitability of your company? In fact, productivity is not the only thing affected by it. Retention, engagement, revenue, work culture, and many other things are affected by the employee experience too.

Many studies show that companies that invest in their employee experience are better places to work and that having a good employee experience leads to higher levels of enthusiasm, engagement, and involvement from the employees of your company. Jacob Morgan’s study shows that companies that invest in an employee experience outperform those that don’t.

In 2019, I was preparing for my SourceCon presentation and I spent more than six months learning to understand how the big corporations were using their resume databases (ATS), how the candidates were selected and invited for an interview. I had dozens of avatar resumes that I was submitting with several customizations, to tailor the best resume that would get me an invitation to an interview.

I started with that because I saw that several career coaches and so-called career coaches (and people with a huge network on LinkedIn) were selling jobseekers “ATS Ready templates” and giving them false hope that thanks to their template they would get a new job way faster. …

Are you getting so many LinkedIn invites that you already unsubscribe from all LinkedIn notifications? And is the number of LinkedIn invites that you are getting from strangers getting bigger every day?

Then I will show you five easy tricks to limit the number of invitations you receive and hide your LinkedIn profile from recruiters.

Disclaimer: Your profile is still not going to be 100% invisible. Even if you delete your LinkedIn profile, your data is already on the internet, and there is always a possibility that recruiters will find you.

Five Ways to Limit the Number of LinkedIn Invitations You Receive

1) Delete your LinkedIn profile

This is the easiest option to become invisible on LinkedIn. But I am not recommending that option, especially if you don’t want to miss a great job offer from people like me :), an offer that could change your life. You probably already spent some time building your profile and you don’t want to lose all your contacts from your network. Also, even if you delete your LinkedIn profile, it will take some time before it’s going to vanish from all the apps that recruiters are using. …

Disclaimer: The information shared in this article is for information purposes only. The names of the companies and individuals used in these examples have been changed to protect their identities, and I am not implying that they are doing something wrong or illegal. My intention is to demonstrate how you can double-check who is behind the tools and raise awareness among web-application and web-tool users

Dozens of new chrome extensions and web applications are brought to life every day. …

Note: These tips are for recruiters and sourcers that lost job recently, but they are applicable to people working outside the recruitment field, as well.

Both employers and employees are facing unprecedented times when conditions have changed a lot, if not drastically. And many people including recruiters lost their job during the pandemic, and they are struggling to find new ones due to travel restrictions or hiring freezes at many companies.

While it may not be that easy to find a job these days, it is not impossible. You just need to change your strategy a bit, become more flexible, and be more open-minded. …

Some time ago, one of the entrepreneurs posted this quote on their LinkedIn profile: “People work at their best when their backs are against the wall.” At first, I thought this post must be old, like from 1990, but when I checked the date, I saw it was posted in 2020. My other thoughts were, “His account must be hacked because what kind of leader believes and communicates this type of message in 2020.

“Putting peoples’ backs against the wall” is an approach that belongs to the 19th century, and a leader who believes in this probably has no clue how to motivate others. …