As a software engineer, it’s hard to even understand different levels when you’re early in your career.
I see that you can add your skills and endorsements.
Would it make sense for your product to pull this data from LinkedIn?
I know I wouldn’t want to replicate this info.
Best of luck!
The whole thing sounded way too complex. I got the feeling LinkedIn was only interested in sharing that info if you were part of one of their revenue pillars (hiring, marketing, sales, learning).
Now, however, I feel glad that I'm using my own Skill tables. We can now add stuff like Piano Playing as a skill. It may be not very "professional" looking, but imagine how cool it would be for team bonding if you could also find mentors for skills not directly related to your current job!
For the endorsements, one thing I've heard a lot while interviewing users was that they thought LinkedIn endorsements were useless, like Facebook's poke button of yore.
So I build Pluckd. To help companies strengthen their employee relationships and skills in a way to keep everyone connected and motivated. Since this was the first big project I coded myself, so I used the languages I was familiar with the most. It's a Django monolith with a PostgreSQL database. The design was from the bootstrap template I got at creative-tim.com.
I learned a lot while coding it, like using Wagtail as a CMS and how to use Django REST Framework to begin the transition to using APIs. Next, I plan on implementing notifications and email reports, which will allow me to learn stuff like Firebase and Celery, so I'm very excited!
I hope this can be valuable to you. And I'm really excited to hear your thoughts!
