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asklizryan@yahoogroups.com I went on linkedin tonight to get busy with making recommendations for deserving people in my network. I have a friend that I got to know in cub scouts. I can recommend her work based on the work she had done for our cub scout pack. She's been one to step up and get things done when we needed an extra pair of hands to take care of phone calls, purchases, fetching, writing... you name it.
And yet linkedin only wants me to recommend her based on the companies we worked for, or the schools we attended....
How can I correctly give her credit for being reliable as a team member when the organization is a volunteer and the "company" is not on her resume? Is there a way around this drop-down menu stuff?
Thanks!
Jackie
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Dear Jackie,
The 'channel' to choose for this sort of relationship is Business Partner. You'll have a choice, when you begin the recommendation process, of four categories to describe your relationship with the Cub Scout person: Colleague, Business Partner, Service Provider, or Student. If you choose "Business Partner" you'll only need to specify where you were working and where she was working at the time the two of you worked on Cub Scout stuff together. You won't be prompted to answer a bunch of annoying questions about your respective levels in your organizations, etc., if you choose Business Partner as the defining framework for your [Cub Scout] relationship.
If you focus on the timeframe during which you two worked together, you can pick your employer (at the time) and her employer (at the time) as the relevant companies. Then you can write about Cub Scout projects to your heart's content.
Cheers,
Liz
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