I received 2 emails in rapid succession from a coffee shop/lunch eatery I like, that told me– then un-told me–that something happened with my frequent-visitor account there.
Oops, they sent the first by mistake. It was a test, they later explained.
So they had to eat serious crow (not that they serve it, I hope!) but they did have to eat their words!
Has that ever happened to you on LinkedIn? It can, and here’s where.
When you edit or add any entry in a job on your Experience section, if you do not push the rocker switch on something you are editing to “off” the gnomes of LinkedIn will think it’s an APB to announce the change to all your connections, and then they erroneously think you have a new job, and the congratulations pour in.
Then you get to eat that same crow, or feel like you dropped your ice cream cone and need to beg for another.
So before you make any edits or other changes to your Experience section, move that switch to “off” if is not already, so LinkedIn doesn’t report to everyone, and then after you have made that change on your profile (check to be sure you like the change(s) one more time), be sure that rocker switch is “off, “and it has not returned back to its default position, which oddly is “on.”
This is one time I do not suggest you be “on,” but “off” on LinkedIn…and it’s one of LinkedIn’s real oddities. Seems inside out.
But it is what it is… as they say.