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
Can’t wait for a c/LinkedInLunatics to be migrated from Reddit
So many people on LinkedIn are batshit insane
Damn I didn’t know about it and now I want it!
There is a c/[email protected] but its not very active… be the change you wish to see!
[email protected] is the link as far as I know, /c may be on the instance but the ! allows for cross instance.
Oh okay, thank you, I didn’t realize that was the prefix for communities I guess i just assumed it was c/
Yep, you use ! for communities and @ for users (ex. @[email protected]).
I agree. Of all the social media platforms I’ve used, Linkedin is the closest to an insane asylum I could get.
There are certain sites I just don’t get, Linkedin and Twitter are the biggest two. Facebook as well for the most part.
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
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.
The more dumbed down the advice, the easier it is to encourage your audience to engage. Some of those who agree with them connect, and the sum of your connections on Linked In is absolutely something recruiters look at and weigh when looking at candidates. Keeping it basic and bland ensures the widest audience and potential connection pool with a minimal risk of negative feedback.
Not that I’m justifying stupid content. There’s a reason I don’t spend any more time than I have to on LinkedIn.
Idk, there should be a limit. Today I saw some random guy posting as a “””pro””” tip “ehi do you know JavaScript has a ternary operator?” And everyone went with “oh great advice so good” saying how their lives changed thanks to that
I once worked in a company where I was forbidden to use ternary operators because the CTO did not understand how to read them… So maybe to some people it’s really life changing.
I can see why they would not want to have nested ternary, but finding hard to read a simple ternary? Wtf
Yep, simple ternary. Even after explaining them / sending a tutorial, the answer was “nah, too complicated”
how the hell did they end up as a CTO in the first place
LinkedIn, a social media network solely made to fellate corporate America.
Fuck LinkedIn, so many ads, so much fucking bootlicking. And congrats for whatever it is your bragging about now loser.
Because Facebook is trash now
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.
the yt channel good work perfectly summarized why linkedin is purposefully cringe
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.
LinkedIn is facebook for professionals. Its pure cancer.
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
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.
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”.
Can’t wait for a Fediverse alternative to launch to be honest
I don’t think it would fix any of its faults tho
Yeah, I feel anything connected to real IDs is destined to end up turning into a self promotion, advertising, product placement, influencer platform.
It is, but at least you would be able to filter chronologically and not whatever LinkedIn uses these days
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.
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
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.
Reading the comments here it looks like more people had this experience. I also had a few unrelated job offers but most of them are within my field.
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.
