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HR BESTIES

BONUS BESTIES: Open To Work (Gobble Gobble)

HR BESTIES

HR Besties LLC

Management, Business

4.8586 Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2023

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Happy Thanksgiving!

And lets talking about telling the world you are OPEN TO WORK using LinkedIn. From an HR Exec's POV -- A good thing? A bad thing?


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0:00.0

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0:05.5

ringing now. She needs to get to work, but she's not worried. She's got an HSBC Premier bank account

0:10.5

with access to digital GP appointments plus two second opinions a year should she need them.

0:15.1

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0:22.4

The doctor will see you now.

0:24.6

Apply with £100,000 annual income or £100,000 savings or investments with HSBC UK or Premier Status Abroad.

0:34.4

Hello, besties.

0:36.1

And so we have come together today for a quick stand-up meeting. We have to do an emergency

0:41.1

huddle because we have a hot topic. Now, I don't even know what the hot topic is. Ashley and

0:48.6

Jamie reached out to me. And so, Ashley, do you want to kick us off? What's the emergency? And I hope

0:53.4

it's a real one because last time he pulled us together to ban microwaving fish in the office, which we all agree with. We absolutely will do that. I'm allergic anyway. Hey, carrying the EpiPen in my back pocket. So, Ashley, what's going on now from a hot topic perspective? Well, yeah, I think solving the fish in the microphone was helpful after I put the

1:12.7

FBPen in your ask, but Jamie, you learned not to do that anymore.

1:15.7

So whatever it takes, now it's on the popcorn.

1:21.2

So this week on LinkedIn, there was some conversation on LinkedIn, which you know

1:25.9

there's nothing like a riveting, linked LinkedIn drama. But the drama was really around the idea of the open to work circle on

1:35.7

LinkedIn. Oh, yes. And the drama was that a recruiter was coming out pretty hard or a couple of

1:42.8

them saying, do not do that.

1:45.2

And one person was calling it the worst feature ever to exist on social media, which I think

1:50.1

we could think of some others.

1:51.4

But the question is, if you are open to work and on LinkedIn putting that circle, does that

1:57.5

reek of desperation, as some recruiters are saying it does?

2:02.0

First off, I'd like to say that I think the worst thing on social was when Facebook did the it's complicated status.

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