ATLANTA, GA - Last Monday, a 1st degree LinkedIn connection of mine (one of 1106) asked me to forward an InMail from a competing recruiter to one of the best online retailing executives in my LinkedIn network. I refused, and then stood firm when the connection asked me to defend my position.
Rather than blog about it, I thought you might enjoy this BlogTalk Radio rhubarb between me and the Recruiting Animal on this week's Recruiting Animal Show.
LinkedIn is a glorified database -- not a community. As such, I do not feel the same obligation to distant members of LinkedIn that I would if we were fellow members of a real online community (similar in functionality to, say, RecruitingBlogs.com). This doesn't make me a jerk, but it does make me competitive. There is a difference.
Moral of the story: If you are a recruiter and you want to solicit one of the rock stars in my LinkedIn network, then you will need to do what I did: Cold call them.
What's your opinion?
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