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 know a dude who spent high school doing blow, dropped out of college, assaulted his mom while coked up, fucked around until his dad gave him a successful company in his late twenties. I watched this dude cry at the kitchen table because his dad told him to treat the employees as equals and not dirt.
He now posts almost daily on LinkedIn about the keys to success.
I mean, having a rich daddy hand you everything is historically proven to be the most reliable key to success. So…
If only that was what he talked about…
If he told all his secrets everyone would run out and get their own rich daddy. Gotta keep something close to the chest.
I mean, I could do a bunch of coke, cry over being a little bitch and assault my mom, I’d be more than halfway there.
Your entrepreneurial spirit is inspiring
Can’t wait for a c/LinkedInLunatics to be migrated from Reddit
So many people on LinkedIn are batshit insane
I agree. Of all the social media platforms I’ve used, Linkedin is the closest to an insane asylum I could get.
There is a c/linkedinlunatics@sh.itjust.works but its not very active… be the change you wish to see!
!linkedinlunatics@sh.itjust.works is the link as far as I know, /c may be on the instance but the ! allows for cross instance.
LinkedIn is facebook for professionals. Its pure cancer.
I was gonna answer that professionals probably just use Yammer (since their companies probably already use Microsoft Office), but Microsoft apparently closed it in 2017.
Edit: My bad, I mixed up So.cl (which was killed im 2017) and Yammer (which is currently being “rolled into” Viva Engage, which itself launched in 2022). All three brands are owned by Microsoft.
My company requires? heavily pushes? us to have a linkedin account. I just get so much spam email now that I’ve changed my position to ‘floor sweeper’ - still get all the spam
And the funny thing is that it’s complicated to even block all their spam in Gmail, because they send it from a bunch of different email adresses
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Government employees, politicians, useless progeny of wealthy families (I will appreciate if someone could enlighten me with a better adjective for this last category). They don’t need to/can’t produce anything, they always get their paycheck or don’t need to, thus the useless blabber.
Nepotists? I was thinking something like nepotees but that doesn’t seem to be a word.
No. I was referring to set for life people with bullshit jobs. Like life coaching.
I never really used it because even when I first heard about it when it was still newish, it was just Facebook but everyone wore a suit and talked about work related shit.
I initially tried it because I was told it was a great job seeking app like Monster. It wasn’t tho. It was Facebook bullshit with a different name and overall mindset.
I think that depends on what profession you’re in. I get contacted on the regular by recruiters on that platform for jobs. It’s where I have found my last 2 positions in 7 years.
Likewise. It has generated several offers for me, but the vast majority of head hunters are playing spray-n-pray with keywords. For every good lead I get, I have to tell 400 people to fuck off.
Oh… you’re a SOX analyst? Want to work in a sock factory? Want to do the laundry for a minor league baseball team? Want to be in a fetish video?
Head hunters are so annoying I’ve stopped responding to them. They barely know anything about the position they try to fill.
Depends. I got my recent job from a headhunter: a Rust programming gig in a fully remote startup with good benefits and a great salary. When the offers are not great, I tell them. This was through LinkedIn.
Yep. I live in one of the “post salary or GTFO” states, and lead with that. Anyone who can’t respond with a straight answer isn’t worth dealing with and is told why.
I go through them every couple of days and have a text file with canned responses.
- Thanks for reaching out. Before we proceed further, will you please provide a full job description, salary range, name of your client, and length of the contract?
- Sorry - (DETAIL) falls outside/below my current expectations. Have a good day, and good luck!
And what field is this? Or what professions do you think so well here?
Product development. Anything associated with building software products get a lot of traction on LinkedIn
I’ve found my last 3 jobs on there. It depends on your role and area, but I much prefer it to classic trash ad sites.
Yeah watching people have no lives other than their job is absolutely brutal and grim
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.
I deleted my LinkedIn account after the 2nd data breach
Because Facebook is trash now
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
The rest is just pure trash and cringe.
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
Sorry to hear that. Might vary from region to region or just bad luck. Im in rhe EU and most people I know uses LinkedIn primarily to look for a job.
Probably just bad luck. I can’t complain though, never had troubles finding a job
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.
They don’t have real talent so their only hope of getting a job is fooling people who know even less than them.
With all the unemployment so high, is it a good thing?
Where is unemployment high?
Orphanages.
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.
LinkedIn always struck me as a sad and desperate place filled with mannequins.
