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by joosters 3988 days ago
The completely pointless 'skills' sections, where anyone can add whatever skills they like to their profile. Oh, you're skilled in 'Data Center'? How utterly meaningless.
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I know someone with multiple endorsements for "General Awesomeness". To be fair, he actually deserves those. But yes, not exactly a "skill".
Interesting. I find the skills sections to be really helpful. I understand that the signal is not official and not a certification of any type, but the endorsements give me a sense for the extent to which someone is known by their peers and colleagues for a certain expertise. That's useful when I need to get up to speed on someone very quickly (e.g., when they got CCed onto a call with me and I don't know who they are).
To be fair, resumes have the same problem. You can list whatever "skills" you want.

And in both cases you can ask the candidate to speak to their "skillset".