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
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)
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 .
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!”
All social media lives and dies by engagement. It doesn’t matter if you’re Lemmy, MySpace, or an obscure forum dedicated to ant husbandry, what keeps you alive is engagement from users. This generates revenue from ad sales and sponsored posts.
In my opinion the issue with LinkedIn is the duality of its use. Most users like you and I just create a page, upload our CV, connect with our coworkers and then close the app. We don’t spend time engaged with the site, we’re not moving a lot of traffic and we’re not purchasing services.
So LinkedIn encourages “content creators” to try and bring in views, and then they try to sell things to these viewers. Want to be successful like this person? Buy LinkedIn learning! Want to have recruiters fighting over you? Buy LinkedIn Premium!
Generic content just brings in content and they bill it as career development.
I just ignore the posts, its mostly bullshit corporate propaganda and public asslicking.
LinkedIn is great to find a new job if you build your profile correctly. Work experience, skills, etc Usually recruiters can find you based on that. I receive at least 1-2 offers monthly based on this alone.
Also the job section is great, you can set alarms for certain types of positions with tons of criterias, like location, type of work, specific skill required, etc
Ironically, I never found a job through LinkedIn but traditional job boards work great for me (software development sector). I even set up my profile to be 1:1 to my resume, but it seems I never had any luck whatsoever
The only thing LinkedIn gives me is spam from trashy recruiters. The ones trying to fill a quota and do not actually read your profile. They are given a job requirement “Java” and fire a bunch of bullshit messages at anyone who tagged the skill.
The first line of my “About Me” is a test, and 100% of recruiters who message me have failed to even read that very first line. And when I call them out on it, they always want to “schedule a call” to “sync up about future opportunities”. I’d rather they all get replaced by AI that will actually know how to read what’s on the damn website.
Most offers I’ve got I don’t even know what the job is. Like they will just say my profile matches what they are looking for and ask if I’d like to talk, no other context except the company name. I could ask, but I find kinda odd they don’t even say what the job is right away. Feels like spam, I guess.
LinkedIn has that style because it’s so connected with personal careers. People are there to build connections. They post shallow shit masqueraded as professional guru advice to make themselves look smart. And if you look smart, people want to connect with you.
I liked it recently when some guy was posting articles on his LinkedIn about how his father was a serial killer and all sorts of bogus evidence that he had to supper that. It definitely seems like a platform for conspiracy theories, you bet.
Because lazy hiring managers only care about people’s linked in profiles so anyone looking for work has to puff up their useless “professional” personas to even be considered for a job.
Unfortunately this is my experience as well. Good thing you can create a nice profile in a day or two and just ignore the rest. Still its stupid to hire someone based on their pretend persona.
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