Today I came to know about *yet another* person in my LinkedIn circle who “wiped” out certain parts of their job-changing history from their profile. The person moved from:

“Role 1” at “Company A”

to “Role 2” at “Company B”

to “Role 3” at “Company C”

and finally to “Role 4” back at “Company A” (who readily re-hired him) - within a span of 10 months.

What shows in his LinkedIn profile is that he got promoted from “Role 1” to “Role 4” at “Company A”. The rest of (probably bad experiences at) job changes have been wiped out.

This is the 5th person I’ve witnessed do this on LinkedIn in the last 2 months. The list includes C-level executives as well.

Just more than a week earlier at the NASSCOM Social Media Summit (good event, by the way), I heard several mentions of how “Hiring via Social Media” is on the rise and how LinkedIn profiles are a good way to scan for prospective hires.

So how many companies would go for a job-history / background-check for a prospective hire? Information on how and why the person moved through so many jobs in a relatively short span of time can give vital clues to the hiring company, and might be the difference between a hire and no-hire.

What do you do?