Why employers can no longer trust an old LinkedIn job title – HRD America

Recruitment Is ‘time travel’ being used to try to fool you? Check a candidate’s LinkedIn profile today, and it’s tempting to assume a job they held five years ago reads the same way it did back then. New research says that’s often not true, and what’s changing tells you a lot about where the job market is headed. A working paper out of Stanford University and workforce data firm Revelio Labs, released through the National Bureau of Economic Research this July, finds that nearly one in five established U.S. LinkedIn users, 19.7%, have gone back and edited the title or description of a job they’d already left. Researchers Nicholas Bloom, Gideon Moore, Lisa K. Simon and Caelan Wilkie-Rogers call it “time travel”: rewriting the past to fit the present. This isn’t someone fixing a typo the week after starting a new job. The median edit happens more than four years after a person has left the role, long after the actual work has stopped changing. What’s different isn’t the job. It’s how people choose to talk about it, after the fact. What people are adding, and what they’re dropping The researchers tracked how language tied to three in-demand skill areas moved through
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