Poor

I’m offended.

Last year I sent a very nice LinkedIn message to someone working in a large, multi-national organisation for whom I’m interested in joining.

As always, I wrote the message myself and tailored it to the individual (who I didn’t know but could see his details). In it I asked for any advice or names within his organisation who I could contact.

I received no reply for a few weeks and LinkedIn suggested that I withdraw the message. However, I thought that holidays and other things may have intervened.

Today, though, I received a decline message. No explanation, just a “Not Interested”.

What’s the point in being in a networking forum, and suggesting you can always be contacted (which he does) then ignoring such a contact? Plus, I have quite a few of my own contacts (members of my immediate network), in fact more than him, which he could find useful one day.