From: Career Horizons: The Blog!
I had an interesting conversation with a CIO a few weeks ago who
claimed that sites like LinkedIn were his absolute worst
nightmare. His perspective was that if he joined sites
like these, and used them in any sort of semi-serious way,
he’d subject himself to bombardment by even MORE harassing
calls and networking requests [...]

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