My feed is filled with dumb “advices”, so called “professionals” that post the most entry level stuff and all sorts of shit that if I were a recruiter I would stay away from these people
Exactly. LinkedIn jobs is incredibly useful. I have also found it useful for helping friends and colleagues find new jobs or make career switches because of the connections I have. I only maintain work connections through LinkedIn as I don’t use Facebook, Instagram, etc.
Absolutely, ignore the post feed. It’s just capitalist boot fucking. A bunch of fucking losers with made up bullshit in their titles trying to be leadership influencers.
Totally agree. Have found jobs through LinkedIn, but it’s timeline is 90% junk. Even the ads are so jargon filled that they are incomprehensible: “Improve your JEHSBN usage to ensure BENS compliance by purchasing XXYYZZ software!”
That’s how I know someone’s not a professional. I blame phishing training.
LinkedIn is barely keeping my viewership, what little that’s worth. It’s a lot of non-work shit, and I joined when LinkedIn was specifically and decidedly not facebook. I don’t want to know about your new baby, or how you did in the 10k because we’re not that kind of friends or I’d already have heard about it from Facebook. I want to hear about you joining that company or getting the training you we seeking (grats!). I want to use it to schlepp my resume to the vast minority who may want to throw money at me. You know, WORK and personal development shit.
Learning about your cancer journey is sad, it’s potentially enlightening to those around you (so brave), but IT’S NOT ABOUT WORK. Get thee to Facebook with that .
I’ve got my profile still, but only log in every couple months. Every time I do, there are multiple requests from people I’ve never met or even heard of their company. I guess I’m just not into the “professional connections” since I just ignore. (Most aren’t even relevant to my industry)
The realtor who helped me sell my last house posts on Facebook a lot. Pictures of interesting houses, gardens, local wildlife. NOT ads for her service or “check out this house I’m now selling” bullshit. Ostensibly, she’s just sharing cool content that’s related to her area of expertise, but it also keeps her visible to me and top of mind. If I need a realtor again I will remember her. I think much LI posting is the same shit. But there are many situations. Someone who needs to hire a lot may put out content that makes them look smart or nice to work for. Someone who is trying to get a job may post things they think will make them appear professional and engaged with their career. People with a service to sell will want to keep themselves visible at all times. A lot goes on on LI.
Yeah. For me its an online resume and way of keeping in contact with people I have done bussiness with. Speaking of which, it annoyes me how many people request connections. I only add you if we have actually worked together or done significant business. Your a recruiter that sent me a job posting. Great but your not in my circle. Your a recruiter and I have worked a job I got through you. Okay now we can connect. You try to sell me stuff. No connect. I have purchased stuff from you for work. Ok then.
It’s the people who make work their personality and them circlejerking each other. Don’t get me wrong, there are experts in my field who post valuable stuff on there, but it’s about topics in our field, not about working itself.
It’s not what it started out as. Originally you linked to people you worked with that you recommend. Now people connect to get their numbers up. When I was job hunting several years ago, I was told it has an algorithm to boost profiles with 250 connections or more. So networking and getting your numbers up was a goal.
I might be in the minority here, but I see it as it was meant to be. People presenting themselves as professionaly as possible, linking to their projects and their workplace’s events. Maybe Linkdin is different in other regions or cultures.
Yep, but to me that’s what linkdin is to me. A playground for making oneself as great as possible for recruiters. I get my warmth and fun from other places, while linkdin stays freezing cold.
I had to scroll through my front page just now to confirm that it’s still that corporate and cold bulletin board. Yep, every single post was either a corporate post about acquiring projects or holding presentations or some non-genuine post of someone quoting how awesome their company is.
I kinda like that linkdin is just that, and I don’t have to look through it for nice personal interactions, because they don’t exist there.
Yeah I can see your point. And I smiled at “freezing cold”. I mean, to me it’s more like “people acting” but its always up for subjective interpretation. Also depends on who is in your list of contacts. I have mostly recruiters I don’t know at all.
Because a lot of people are jobless and try to make themselves feel better by trolling on linkedin. Also, a lot of people seem to think being on linkedin a lot counts as professional experience.
For the same reason that people used to have super fancy CVs and business cards and the like.
Back in the day? You were competing for jobs against the people in your town. Very few jobs involved people even moving across state lines, let alone cross country.
Now? We live in a global society. Even ignoring remote jobs, it is not horribly uncommon for people in more “technical” roles to move around the country or even the world for their career. And now you are competing against an entire country, if not planet, full of job candidates.
And that is where “building your brand” matters a lot. You need something that will make you stand out or make people remember who you are when they are reviewing CVs. I personally disagree with the idea of being a “hustle” person on linkedin, but I also know I got very lucky in when I was born as I have a pretty solid CV which opens a lot of doors for me. Whereas people even a few years younger than me need to fight hard to get past the filters and even get that first interview for a role.
And then you just have the act of keeping in feeds. Just making it a point to like posts and congratulate people on their work anniversaries means you have activity on your account which means you pop up in other people’s feeds. And I definitely know that I remembered the existence of an intern (who I actually really liked) because they congratulated a friend on a new job. Which led to me sending them a DM saying “hey, apply for this role”.
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