No new news in regard to ordering specific positions within experience, and I just went and looked – no “unannounced” changes either.

Yes – it might be awkward to list individual assignments on a profile.

I’d recommend having one position “Independent XYZ Contractor” that acted as a cover for all of the smaller assignments. Then within that one could list different clients that have been worked for.

That way adding a new client is not such a big deal, and the length of that position would look longer. “Yes, I’ve been taking these 10 week assignments for 4 years now – and am quite accustomed to working in this fashion.”

Within my own profile, I list several different positions within Eastman Kodak under one “Kodak” position. But then when I joined Questra, I list my “Senior Systems Architect” position separately from my “Director of Desktop and Network Services” position.

Consider this as an option – and thanks for writing.

steve

Any word on order customization in “Experience” for consultants?

The other difficulty consultants experience is that even if a consultant is contractually free to assume multiple positions, it is always awkward to add the next position, knowing that controlling management of the first firm will see the addition and question their priority–especially for strategic consultants or business development consultants.

It would be nice to have the option to select privacy settings by organization or viewer to mitigate this situation (a la Facebook). That said, there is always room for a coding glitch created in a platform upgrade or shared contacts spilling the news, creating an even greater faux pas!

Any thoughts? At a minimum, thank goodness for setting customizations enabling users to prevent the “announcement” of changes and/or additions, propelling the “news” across the network…

Cheers!

Don’t hold back now, let us know what you really think;-)

Your position is quite valid – I like the beta connections page because of the tagging, but otherwise, it’s just a different way of viewing the same information.

I was used to the left navigation, but it was redundant.

Thanks for commenting!

steve

Even if they come up with a feature to change the “default” order within the experience section (i.e. reverse chronological order w/ newest positions on top), people should be pretty careful about using that option. Most people are accostomed to seeing your past experience in reverse chronological order.

It might be a better if there were a section for “other experience”. You could leave your relevant experience where it is, then move your less-relevant experience futher down, so people can still look at it but not be distracted by it.

Or maybe just don’t put “irrelevant” experience on your profile, or just have a really short (or no) description.

On a side note, I hate, hate, hate the new “My Connections” page layout. It’s a beta version, so maybe it’ll get better. But it’s cluttered and cramped and the text is smaller and I have to do a lot more scrolling and clicking and there are these stupid “mini-profiles” that are useless and just take up wasted space. It’s annoying as heck (just like my previous run-on sentence)! If you hate it too, you can send a note to LinkedIn customer service. Supposedly they’re looking for feedback – who knows if they’ll use it.

Just to be nice, I’ll say that I really like the new features in the navigation tabs at the top of the page. The tabs have nice dropdown menus so everything is organized and more intuitive than before.