04May2009

LinkedIn Recommendation Generator

Given how common requests for LinkedIn recommendations are and how devalued their currency has become, I've thought for a while that it would be helpful to have a tool to generate these automatically.

I guess that's another project to cross off my to-do list because I just came across the LinkedIn endorsement generator.

Here's how I'd use it to recommend myself:

Christian did an exceptional job on the recent project. Christian is a detail oriented, innovative and careful perfectionist - his ideas, skills, creativity and understanding of change requests made the project a dream. He has an extensive knowledge, and his open-minded approach could not be overestimated. He denotes a strong experience in areas such as project management and software architecture.

That's better than I could do! The fact that the grammar is not perfect makes the business-speak even better.

Posted on: May 4, 2009 | 11 Comments

11 Comments Posted

This generator is great for the recommendation I've been blowing off because I couldn't think of anything positive to say, yet felt I had to return a favor. At least now I can say something vaguely vanilla/generic without wasting an hour trying!

1. Posted by SS on May 04, 2009

Hmph. Seems to only generate recommendations for males.

2. Posted by NatalieMac on May 05, 2009

Interesting but how about just saying that someone did a good job and you were pleased with the results?

3. Posted by Portland Web Design on May 06, 2009

Great post, thanks for the info. Can't wait to try your suggestions.

4. Posted by Louisville SEO on May 07, 2009

SocialRecommendator.com might be a bit smarter (supports women too)...

5. Posted by Jax on May 10, 2009

Couldn't agree anymore with post 3! What on earth do you need this for?!

6. Posted by Matt - Graphic Design on May 19, 2009

How sad! I used to only believe the recommendations that had typos and bad grammar. Now I trust those even less. Of course it is kind of useful to know that I can easily recommend myself ...

7. Posted by Lauren on May 21, 2009

intresting read. will try this out sometime!

8. Posted by web design leeds on May 22, 2009

thank you to poster number 5. We tried the generating one for our director with added cute factor which resulted in us all spending 10 mins rolling about the floor laughing.

9. Posted by JLC web designers on May 27, 2009

Jax - SocialRecommendator is great. Love the rockstar version! Thanks for the tip.

10. Posted by Christian Watson on May 28, 2009

Thanks for providing a great resource. your site is one of the best, and i will definitely refer it to my site visitors.
Regards,
Judy

11. Posted by Judy on August 15, 2009

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