Weak 3

This last week was a rough one, full of life lessons and bountiful wisdom to come. I will definitely be taking advantage of the "lowest homework score is dropped" portion of my syllabi from my work this week. I wish I could apologize for myself. "She's a little tired this week, sorry." "She's really working on it, ok?"

With all of that in mind,

how about LinkedIn?

 I made my LinkedIn last year, while scouring internet search engines for exciting internships from far off lands...

To no avail.

At least not yet. But, many job finder engines, like Indeed.com, which is what I have, highly encourage, if not, require users to have a LinkedIn profile.

I wasn't a huge fan of this. At the time, the LinkedIn profile was extremely similar to that of the Indeed in that I downloaded my resume to the site and it (inaccurately) autofills all of your info into the online profile.

 It was basically, if I remember correctly, doing the same tedious data entry twice, so I really half-assed the LinkedIn to get the the job hunt.

Now that the format has changed a bit, I can see more of a point to the whole idea of LinkedIn. I used to think of it as Facebook for young professionals, which I hated, but maybe there's some potential.

It'd be interesting to see the proportion of

success among LinkedIn users.

Wouldn't it?

Read with me.

40% of LinkedIn users use the website daily.

I can't imagine being that into networking to where you would use LinkedIn daily. Should I ever reach that point, send help.

#20 got me pumped, as a mass comm/ mathematics double major who's considering an emphasis in Statistics.

 "20. Hottest skill on LinkedIn in 2014 that got people hired: Statistical Analysis and Data Mining"

 Even as I read that, I'm thinking, "I'm not sure what numbers they have to back that up," but that excites me, nonetheless.

So, Karen, when you get worried that you don't actually care about math and may be only doing it because it has the potential to offer more technical security than a mass communications degree, just remember your natural skepticism for an organization's self-published statistics.

I often doubt my choice to be a math major, as I am not sure of the job, should it exist, that would pair mathematics with mass communications.

 I've doubted choosing statistics as an emphasis for the same reasons, magnified.

Depending on what "hottest skill" means to them, this information has the potential to make me think otherwise.

Is this a skill that you can put on your LinkedIn page just willy-nilly or will it matter when I have a paper verifying I know said hot skills?

Only time will tell.







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