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By: Viewers Of This Profile Also Viewed… | The LinkedIn Personal Trainer

Viewers Of This Profile Also Viewed… | The LinkedIn Personal Trainer — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:42:02 +0000

[...] on 25 Jun 2009 at 11:41 am | Tagged as: Ways to Use LinkedIn A recent commenter on my “Someone’s Been Sitting In My Chair” article mentioned that they like to check into the people that viewers of a particular [...]

By: stylock

stylock — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:01:10 +0000

Wil,

Thanks for the insight!

For other readers – Will is talking about a different block that you see on other people’s profiles. I’ll have to write on that in the future!

The “Who’s viewed my profile?” is only on your own home page.

steve

By: Wil

Wil — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 09:01:37 +0000

“Personally – I find the information of limited use, mostly as a talking point. If you’ve found a good way to use it, I’d be interested in hearing about it.”

Like many I use Linkedin to source potential clients. Often when i search i find that a profile is private. I can usually get round that by using the available information to XRay the profile using google.

What is intresting is the “Viewers of this profile also viewed…” in the right column theres are often made up of colleagues, competitors reccruiters etc. As they say “Birds of a feather flock together”

The good thing is these names are there in “broad daylight” so you just link from name to name. After get the raw data its just a case of using Google,Xing,Plaxo,Facebook and other net resources to fill in the gaps of Address Telephone number etc

By: stylock

stylock — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 10:49:02 +0000

Jerry,

Yeah – who would want to spend $ to find out their friends have been looking at their profile;-)

I’ve checked in a couple times to find people from a company I’m speaking with have looked at my profile or people in a certain industry or profession check in when I’m speaking to their group.

Again – it’s a bit interesting, but not something I feel compelled to know, or something that changes my outlook on things;-)

steve

By: Jerry

Jerry — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 23:37:27 +0000

Thanks for the info – I was tempted to spend $ “To see more people” — It’s plain english, but the mind (mine especially) works in funny ways.
I doubt the accuracy of the “last 30 days” part. Showing both a generic position name and company narrows the field – the position name seems to be VERY approximate.
I’m guessing all my hits were nothing more than my connections viewing on confirmation.