Without the need to register to LinkedIn I was able to read "free" information to get a feel for what this service offers. From the Learning Centre at the bottom of the homepage, the New User guide provides all the information needed before deciding to join.
The LinkedIn Answers tabs is free to view even without a login. Questions are quickly pushed down the page as new ones are posted. It took me a little while to find the Two companies with the same name? query as it had been displaced from the front screen in the space of a few minutes. Although answers can be read by anyone, a login is required to post a query or an answer. The added functionality of searching by categories makes this application a useful tool for professionals.
Spoke: in the JOBS tab I searched for university librarian in Denver, Colorado. The result provides job description, selecting criteria and much more. The right hand column offers links to similar jobs. (Head of Collection Management)
Searches for librarian, chemical engineer and science lecturer in Australia did not bring results. Perhaps the system is currently limited to the US and England.
From the Google Groups site I accessed the alt.usage.english
and read some threads of conversation. I'm considering joining the group to ask questions about usage and grammar that I find baffling and to which native speakers cannot provide a satisfactory answer nor explanation. However I need to read the conditons and implications of joining, specifically the danger of spam emailing once my address is made available.
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With job sites, I think it's the chicken and the egg situation. Australian employers won't advertise on them because they don't think that Australians will use them, and because there are no Australian jobs on these sites, Australians don't look there for job advertisements.
I used to teach english in Japan and took a linguistics subject at university, so if you have any language questions you can try me. Also my husband knows grammar inside out.
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