Comments on: Have Any Super-Sekrit Information On Your LinkedIn Profile?

By: Connecting To Stranger Danger | The LinkedIn Personal Trainer

Connecting To Stranger Danger | The LinkedIn Personal Trainer — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 13:41:40 +0000

[...] in your updates. I’ve maintained for a long time that you don’t want to put “super sekrit” information on your profile – just don’t do [...]

By: Job Search Common Sense, Privacy and Blame :: Career-Resumes® :: Former resume expert for Monster.com

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:47:26 +0000

[...] is a safe place, right? WRONG. I just read Steve Tylock’s post about people putting secret company information (projects they are working on that their [...]

By: Steve Tylock

Steve Tylock — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:03:26 +0000

Well, I’d call that a bit unethical – and why tread there when you don’t have to. It appears people are willing to put all sorts of material out without prompting anyway…-)

steve

By: Martin

Martin — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:27:26 +0000

Hi Steve,

I must admit that LinkedIn still is less harmful than some Facebook profiles, but this is a classic. You can easily monitor your competitions projects by looking at their staff movements!

Another thing we want to take into consideration here: nothing stops you from creating a profile with competitor information and cause a social media “viral bomb” by posting something that may – or may not – be true just to see your competitors reaction in the press. If their lawyers are on the case immediately it most likely means they are actually working on the project!

All the best

By: Steve Tylock

Steve Tylock — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:27:15 +0000

Doc,

The LinkedIn profile is definitely gone, and as you say, the individual’s status at Microsoft may or may not be gone as well…

steve

By: Doc Farmer

Doc Farmer — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:18:18 +0000

I’m just guessing here, but I’d wager that the “poor employee” might NOT be in the employ of the Microsoft Corporation anymore…