Linkedin became known as a terrible platform when it spammed every email address the web, it was like 10 years ago. Than it was bought by M$. What did you expect? Suddenly a platform which is known for only bad things becomes the epitome of correctness?
That’s all well and fine, and I don’t disagree with any of that. But as someone who’s been in the professional industry for 27+ years, Linked In is the only way to reasonably stay connected with people you used to work with/might want to work again in the future, if you’re not personal friends with them.
As much as the platform is terrible, there’s no alternative for the service they provide to my professional career.
I save the email address and phone numbers of the people I worked with to my address book. Why would I need linkedin for that. I read news of my profession from blogs in an rss reader, so I can stay up to date. I follow specific forums, and comment there frequently. Linkedin is just one more social shit you can live without perfectly fine. Of course if you don’t want to live without it, you can’t
right, and maybe then saying that may have been useful, now its kinda necessary if you are job hunting and networking (and i hate that). and I cant not look for a job cause i need food and shelter and the economy is shit.
I never said it wasn’t useful (mostly for headhunters and HR people), but it always had shady tactics and if you didn’t know it’s original purpose you could think it’s some not fully legal scam company…
So hot you can keep it
Linkedin became known as a terrible platform when it spammed every email address the web, it was like 10 years ago. Than it was bought by M$. What did you expect? Suddenly a platform which is known for only bad things becomes the epitome of correctness?
That’s all well and fine, and I don’t disagree with any of that. But as someone who’s been in the professional industry for 27+ years, Linked In is the only way to reasonably stay connected with people you used to work with/might want to work again in the future, if you’re not personal friends with them.
As much as the platform is terrible, there’s no alternative for the service they provide to my professional career.
I save the email address and phone numbers of the people I worked with to my address book. Why would I need linkedin for that. I read news of my profession from blogs in an rss reader, so I can stay up to date. I follow specific forums, and comment there frequently. Linkedin is just one more social shit you can live without perfectly fine. Of course if you don’t want to live without it, you can’t
right, and maybe then saying that may have been useful, now its kinda necessary if you are job hunting and networking (and i hate that). and I cant not look for a job cause i need food and shelter and the economy is shit.
I never said it wasn’t useful (mostly for headhunters and HR people), but it always had shady tactics and if you didn’t know it’s original purpose you could think it’s some not fully legal scam company…
Skill issue
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You’ll have a better chance applying directly through companies’ websites.
LinkedIn is not my goverment’s social security department, not a housing charity, not a food bank, not the only jobs board and not even the largest.
I agree with you. I’m just talking about the factors at play.