Things I Xan't Say on LinkedIn

Not sure you can be humbled by receiving a porn star award.

Pleasured maybe.

I suppose the audience could be.

If you're blessed with such a talented team.

I'll avoid 'smashing it' and '100' references at this point.

<raised hands emoji>

"Winning the grotstar of year award is a lot like making love to a beautiful woman"

_#humble brag?

You can say this on LinkedIn if you like, but here's a pro tip for you. When job hunting it's often a good idea to use your network and have mutual connections help to get you an advantage. However, when asking a mutual connection to tell the hiring manager what a great person you are, it might be best to first of all be sure that the hiring manager doesn't think that said mutual connection is a massive twat, lest their recommendation be considered a red flag.

Are you speaking from bitter experience.

Not bitter at all, in this scenario I'm the hiring manager. Someone who I used to do business with and who annoyed the shit out of me messaged on LI to say that this person is a very good friend and he wholeheartedly recommends her for the role I currently have advertised.

If she's good friends with him then I assume she's as annoying as he is and I have no interest.

Obviously I'm a massive twat. Probably in this case as well.

I did. Not bad on paper, unimpressed in person. HR rep agreed.