In my corporate life, I have noticed that most of the senior/executive staff are quite protective of their CV's and profiles.<p>Even more, if they are members of linkedin, they usually only present their job titles with no further description of role or responsibilities. This would seem to me counter-productive as a potential recruiter would be less likely to find their profile using a generic search.<p>Personally I would have greater trust in a public CV because my feeling is that the respective person would be less likely to lie or embellish facts in a CV that be seen by their immediate peers.<p>Is your CV public or not? Why?
Do you fill in your complete linkedin profile or just job titles? Why?
I agree with you. I think overly private CV's are that way because they don't want co-workers noticing or calling them on BS. Of course, some people are just private.<p>Also, some people, myself included, tend to craft a resume for a particular job. You can always accentuate your strengths that are relevant to the particular job. This is one reason to not post a CV.<p>I have a very full LinkedIn profile because I use it to market myself. I often include the link in cover letters. I've gotten a lot of callbacks just by exporting my profile as PDF and sending that as my resume (worked for Google). But I know a lot of people just on linked in to keep in touch with co-workers and not to market, so there's no need to list specifics.
I keep a profile at StackOverflow Careers for the heck of it. It's a fun CV builder.<p><a href="http://careers.stackoverflow.com/dangrossman" rel="nofollow">http://careers.stackoverflow.com/dangrossman</a>