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LinkedIn tells us we are moving toward skills-based hiring and stresses the updated skills search that is smart about the content of members’ profiles and can guess skills. Is that so? Please review LinkedIn Wants Me to Pack Groceries and Learn Fluoroscopy if you haven’t. It’s a (sad) joke.
LinkedIn Engineering observes that Recruiters find and contact only a small percentage of members. The idea to expand Skills beyond what members enter comes from their wish that we find others. (But we would find others if not for the issues described in LinkedIn’s Members and Companies Disconnect, You Are Missing