Don’t shit where you eat.
- Don‘t mix money with honey
-Don‘t mix spreadsheets with bedsheets
But then again, workplaces are still the top places were ( later married) couples have met on average.
I like this! Going to use it at work because it’s more work appropriate.
But feel free to eat where others shit. #AssToMouth
LinkedIn just isn’t for Jobs Anymore. It’s Now a Pile of Trash.
Ads about pushing your career, then more ads about how to create a better work life balance. And everybody seems to be a coach who tries to push their courses about the above mentioned topics. Thanks but I’ll pass.
My favorite thing is LinkedIn sending you spam advertisements disguised as real people chatting you. Every month or so I get a message from a spambot saying something along the lines of “Hello! My name is Diana. Have you heard of LinkedIn premium?”
Total trashfire of a website. Unfortunately, I still have to open it every now and then to adjust my profile and check for jobs, because it feels like everyone asks for your linkedin page when applying now.
I decided to check if it was any better than my current specialized job portal, which has enshittified a little in the last years. But Linkedin enshittification can’t be beat. It’s like prostitution level of job seeking for brainwashed people. What jobs are you applying for?
What jobs are you applying for?
Game dev, mainly. I use other websites to apply but there’s usually a spot dedicated for your linkedin profile, a lot of recruiters expect your portfolio to be on there.
You don’t have to actually browse the site. You put your resume on there, give out the link when asked and occasionally you get contacted by recruiters with an open position. You can turn off most emails so if nothing else at least you’re not bothered by it.
I’m not sure why people are so enraged by a website they can simply ignore most of the time.
I like all the recent graduates who have all of a sudden become experts in their fields and post on behalf of the company. Or those that are so humbled to let everyone know that they are taking a Coursera course.
Don’t worry office creeps who make unwanted advances towards coworkers, LinkedIn has your back. A new harassment platform for a new age.
Every app is a dating app if you’re persistent enough.
I found the love of my life using MS Word
I made her mine using the command line and sudo
The true story on which they based the movie Weird Science.
So hot!
The true story on which they based the movie Her.
Even real life?
Wait…
In case you want to date the most annoying people on earth
LinkedIn is trash, it’s a glorified resume where narcissists go to brag about themselves.
Adding a dating feature is only going to benefit two groups of people: the ones who have the highest paying jobs, and people who are looking to be with someone for their money. For everyone else, this is just going to make LinkedIn more repulsive than it already was.
Edit - I’m lazy, ignore this and read the article
Where in the article did it say they’re adding a dating feature?
I thought it was for people to suck corporate cock and post terrible hiring stories.
Whereas I’ve avoided social networking sites (like FB/IG/etc) because I’ve always known most folks use it to brag about how much fun they’re having or what they just bought - LinkedIn is a horrible mixture of how much corporate KoolAid they can drink and their newest job/promotion.
I don’t mind being proud of friends who are doing well but seeing it in condensed milk form makes me sick and applies to both.
Right, so I’ve lived my whole life constantly being told that I can’t read social cues and that everyone else has this magical ability to understand subtext and all that. Which makes this article so confusing to me because it reads like the author is so oblivious to how people actually work.
The article can be summed up as basically:
- Turns out, people can find love by talking to each other and don’t need specially designed apps.
- But it can’t happen organically, you need to use some app to do so and look out specifically for love. Obviously.
- Relationships are entirely transactional and are based on your partner’s academic and business performance.
All with this creepy undertone that sexual harassment should be delegated to a footnote and subject to a cost-benefit analysis rather than, you know, avoided entirely.
Title made me go “ew”, your comment saved me clicking through to confirm… Thanks.
LinkedIn is an aggregation of everything wrong with social media. I got laid off and tried to use it to find a job, never again.
YMMV
I got laid off, got the LinkedIn premium (free for one month). Got hired before the trial ran out.
What’s YMMV?
Your Mileage May Vary
Your Miles May Vary, an acronym saying that it’s his/her opinion/experience, and your experience may be different.
Never looked into it, what exactly does to help on the being hired part? It advertise you more somehow or what? I only remember the thing about being able to see who checked your profile I think…
You can contact people directly and if the job posting is in LinkedIn you can see the experience level of other applicants.
The bit about seeing other applicants was key for me, I dared to apply for a job I thought I wasn’t qualified for.
tried to use it to find a job, never again.
Can I ask why?
Like I am not a big fan of the social network part, with people sharing stupid stuff and other things but for finding a job or so they can find you and see your experience and so on it didn’t seem that bad.
I’m a software developer and many job postings for my skill sets are getting 500+ applicants, so my strategy was to try to network on the platform. The whole experience was demoralizing, sure other job boards might have the same number of applicants, but I really feel like the easy apply button just creates more competition. My inbox is always open for recruiters though, that is the only positive for me.
This has been happening for a long long time now. There is a reason why many women do not post a headshot on Linked In.
My wife was looking for a new gig 5 years ago, and was constantly getting tons of DMs from dudes who wanted to fuck. And her pic was pretty damn conservative/ professional. Just a headshot with a smile.
There should be some sort of way of flagging and shaming these creeps.
She smiled so she wants the D!
Sadly that’s the level some men operate at…
I used to browse linkedin all the time, and found that my contacts shared interesting articles and links that related to my job. I got 2 jobs from listing shared by my network that I’d never have found otherwise.
But it’s been years since that time, and now it is a cesspool of shameless fake humble bragging and totally non-work appropriate content. I’ve been hit on multiple times with men trying to get me to chat with them about really personal stuff in DMs.
I’m job hunting now, and it’s one of my main methods for finding opportunities but otherwise I wouldn’t log on at all.
I don’t use it, but I know companies checkout my profile whenever I apply so I made my profile look really good, added a ton of skills and completed a bunch of the certification test things.
Up until recently when jobs in my industry dried up, I would get recruiters contacting me weekly at a minimum. I’ve never actually used it as a social media platform, and I don’t understand why people do tbh.
“No it’s not.” Me, reading this headline.
As i tell everyone else, LinkdIn is a glorified facebook for boomers. The only time i will ever update my profile is if I am looking for a job.
Facebook is Facebook for boomers.
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Totally agree. GenX here
Not surprised when people started treating LinkedIn like their Facebook years ago.
Was it ever for jobs?
Been an active user for well over 5 years and not one interaction has resulted in a job.
A bunch of people acting like they were hiring, sure.
I landed my last two jobs (and in that timeframe another four offers and probably a dozen recruitment pitches I seriously entertained to some degree or other) via LinkedIn, either via contact with colleagues or messages from recruiters. Granted that I’m in a niche specialty of a relatively small profession, but for me LinkedIn has been the most reliable source of job offers for at least a decade. Many of the “better” options really only serve fields like the tech industry, or are so dominated by listings for tech jobs that have appropriated my industry’s professional titles that it’s impossible to sort any signal from the noise.
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I’ve gotten multiple offers from things that began on LinkedIn. At least five, probably more. I accepted one.
A former co-worker messaged me via LinkedIn to tell me about a job (that I got). But other than that… No use.
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Like I know tinder is deeply enshittified, but please. I don’t need this.
