LinkedIn discussion

JustStopDude said:
I honestly don't get why I bothered with that website.
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the internet is fake and gay, but the internet is for ever. on the bright side your political beliefs will be used against you in job consideration for eternity or the emb hits. Maybe do a geographical like Ethan Ralph...... or start a business and work for yourself.....
 
Ever heard the saying that LinkedIn is like reverse Tinder? Just focus on building a good profile and you'll eventually get messaged by desperate HR ladies. You don't have to be active on the site for that to happen - just wait for it to happen.

This is still one of the best ways of getting a job nowadays outside of recommendations. I got my last 2 jobs because some recruiters randomly approached me, and I don't even have a profile picture. It may take weeks or months though.

Unexpected Genitals said:
I quit my job a few weeks ago due to not being able to keep up with the workload and the misery and shame it was causing me, and fuck me I feel like I've signed my own death warrant by doing so. I'm fortunate enough to have a roof over my head and not be broke (yet) but hearing how bad the job market is now makes me terrified for my prospects of finding a new job.
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If survival isn't a issue you did the right thing. I just quit my job for the same reasons, and now wish I hadn't postponed this decision for so long. You WILL find something else sooner or later, but the potential social/health issues extreme burnout cause may not be reverted. Take a break. Once you've recovered, see if there's anything to catch up with in your field and learn some new skills. Maybe try something simpler like food delivery or working in a store until you find another "good" job. Whatever you choose to do, you'll grow as a person. As an overworked company slave there's little room for growth - your time and energy are sucked dry by usually meaningless activities.
 
I signed up for LinkedIn when I began job hunting in the mid 2010s. While I was able to connect with extended family, former college acquaintances, and work colleagues, I mostly ignore the site now. Notifications or messages asking me to sign up for college certificate programs constantly flood my inbox.
 
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The Nothingness said:
I signed up for LinkedIn when I began job hunting in the mid 2010s. While I was able to connect with extended family, former college acquaintances, and work colleagues, I mostly ignore the site now since I get flooded with notifications or messages asking me to sign up college certificate programs.
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This is once again part of the enjeetification of the site. I now regularly encounter jeets, chinks, and other detritus that apply for jobs at my company that claim to come from MIT and Stanford and it’s just these dumbass certificates. My HR still gets tricked regularly from it, especially with “diverse” candidates.
 
Mind you, I'm not American.

Had my account since I reached 18, though only started really using a year ago or so.
My last 3 jobs I got on LinkedIn, and I didn't even have a great profile in there. Didn't have a great summary, forgot to upload multiple projects, whatever.

Right now I'm looking for a better job, and for the last few months I've been tweaking my profile and it has given me good results, recruiters finding me quickly and for roles that are aligned to my profile, but also I've been receiving bizarre inbox messages of people who simply don't know how to set up their automation.
Last one was someone inviting me to "experience" their selected wine catalog. There's no indication in my profile that I would like to do something like that.

I think that because my main language is not English in there, I've been shielded from the jeets and their bizarre messages.

schzo said:
Ever heard the saying that LinkedIn is like reverse Tinder? Just focus on building a good profile and you'll eventually get messaged by desperate HR ladies. You don't have to be active on the site for that to happen - just wait for it to happen.

This is still one of the best ways of getting a job nowadays outside of recommendations. I got my last 2 jobs because some recruiters randomly approached me, and I don't even have a profile picture. It may take weeks or months though.
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Basically it, though the results are faster if you set up a nice profile, highlighting what you've done and the results you brought in your job(s), not just the functions.

Some people say you have to post at least a week on LinkedIn and I despise that. I don't want to be a content creator, I already work my ass off everyday and still I have to think about writing thoughtful and compelling posts? Fuck off.

Most of the engagement I get comes from comments I leave on my connection's posts. I'd say it is the most effective way to start gaining attention if you don't want to be a content creator. Don't be a retard though.

What people say that a lot of open roles are found in posts is true, but it's not like a secret and hard thing to find. There are a lot of people there who dedicate themselves to share this kind of openings, you just have to follow/connect with the right people.

And for the retarded posting there, I just block if someone pisses me off. Has been working fine for me, I won't let a stranger piss me off through the screen. Most of my feed is made up from good content made by people in my area, really good insights.
 
Idk, found a job via LinkedIn where some guy messaged me first, offered a couple of interviews and an insane wage for what i'd do. The place is nice, my managers are really nice and my mistakes aren't really that severely looked at unlike the previous places i worked in. Also, the job is full time work from home :winner:
 
sedoL said:
Idk, found a job via LinkedIn where some guy messaged me first, offered a couple of interviews and an insane wage for what i'd do. The place is nice, my managers are really nice and my mistakes aren't really that severely looked at unlike the previous places i worked in. Also, the job is full time work from home :winner:
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Same. Keep an updated and verbose profile, respond to recruiters who aren't brown, and it's a passive way to keep my options open and know that there's other stuff out there if my company ever feels grim. Been working at the same place for 5 years, but I'll entertain recruiters with white names. Recently I get more "SAAAR HIRING NOW FAST WE NEED EXPERIENCED PEOPLE" poo written messages but I just ignore those.
 
I've got a small operation and the only business inquiry I've got is to be listed on "Marquis Who's Who" I didn't want to consent to robocalls so I declined.
 
I was actually quite into using it initially. Of course, to follow zoo folk and people doing great for animals. Nature photographers etc. You know, shit I wanted to see. What people are instead told to do when they make a linkedin is to follow market people, first-movers and other such lowlife slop. People who haven't written a good piece of communication in decades. They'll tell you "nobody wants to hear about you being suicidal, Steve!" in same hour they'll write on someone's life's work "Good job Peter!".

And now it's all AI. From blonde HR wannabes. To have a linkedin beyond simply having one, much like a Facebook, is a colossal red flag and flaw of character. Same way not having one is, though I can excuse not having a linkedin more than not having a Facebook. To be actively against Facebook at the cost of losing your only way to reliably talk to meemaw is deranged. You're tracked to hell and back as is.
 
I recently deleted it, but I used to use it as a recruiting tool 10 years ago (I had a recruiter's profile/account). I need to get a job and might go back on, but everything feels way worse from what it was a decade ago.
 
I just use it for LinkedIn Learning at this point. The site has become a testing ground for Indians using Generative AI to disguise themselves as humans.

Occassionally though, you'll get a tranny coming out and the Mudslimes on there will not hold back in voicing their disgust. Rare mudslime W.

Tate McRae said:
I need to get a job and might go back on,
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^ If into LinkedIn for jobs you go, only Jeets will you find.
 
I don't even have a linked in and don't see why I would need one. I would never send in a normal resume or application for AI and HR to through in the trash.

If I'm getting a new job I would try to use connections to get hired at one of the companies I sell to. We are in a competency crisis and so long as you aren't a terrible supplier having already done things for the company it looks really good.
 
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The Nothingness said:
I signed up for LinkedIn when I began job hunting in the mid 2010s. While I was able to connect with extended family, former college acquaintances, and work colleagues, I mostly ignore the site now. Notifications or messages asking me to sign up for college certificate programs constantly flood my inbox.
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I love how irrelevant it has become. No company worth its weight uses it for job listings, at least not primarily. So they basically contained tryhards and wannabe-internationals to one site. I used it quite a bit, following people who do shit with nature and animals or posting small comments here and there. Now? I don't fucking touch it. To use any social media at this point, including linkedin, is a telltale sign you're detached from yourself and society.

Ironically, because Instagram is so non-text based, it'd probably be one of few places to have some kind of down-to-earth social media with exposure to your friends and family. Post a pic of you going on a walk every other week; go out of your way to be somewhere worth taking a picture of. But hell that's snapchat innit.
 
LinkedIn gets worse and worse:

- Lots of jeetposting about fake lessons learned and fake insights they pretend to have about current events and trends
- Lots of AI visuals that jeets can’t even bother to clean up or reprompt
- Lots of angry long-term unemployed job hunters jaded about their prospects; sometimes they’ll make funny comments
- Lots of whammens whining about how often they get hit on their LinkedIn accounts (the names and pfps get scratched out because they know they’ll get shit for being a racist since it’s brownoids doing it)
- Lots of ghost jobs getting posted, taken down and then reposted, sometimes several cycles of this per month
- Lots of fake recruiters hitting you up
- Lots of advertisements for obscenely overpriced certificates from places like UC Berkeley or U of Chicago
 
What a worthless site. Even back then, it wouldn't get me any kind of work. Just endless ping-ponging between nobody replying to my applications and being told they'll "get back to me" after I send my CV only to hear nothing. I doubt it's any better now. I'm glad I deleted my account all those years ago, it was nothing but a big privacy leak.
 
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