It’s really useful when you’re looking for a job though. They have better job searches than everyone else. Though I wish they would get some better salary data.
Agreed. I found my current gig on LinkedIn and got like an 80% raise a few years ago. I stay off it unless I need to go job hunting, and I have no complaints, but I treat it just like facebook and ignore the feed/random bullshit pushed to me.
Yeah, I feel like if you don’t engage with the “social” aspects of it and just treat it as an easily-shareable resume platform, it works exceedingly well.
Though, getting to see an insight into the people you may potentially work with is also a nice touch, in some instances. You can get a good feel for the type of environment those people would like to foster in their workplaces, and make an informed decision about whether or not you’d feel comfortable working for them.
Yup. my current job came about because of a recruiter contacting me on LinkedIn.
That said, I don’t really interact with the rest of the social media crap the site has to offer. It’s there to act as a public resume and to attract job offers, not waste my time with social media crap.
I absolutely hate the platform. It sucks it’s even a requirement to get a job in any tech job (at least where I’m from, I heard it spread to other fields in other countries i.e hire a gardener on linkedin). The fake positivity and support for corporate overlords is just difficult to swallow.
The cringe land. That place was cringe it made me sick. “The fake positivity and support for corporate overlords is just difficult to swallow.” Is the perfect way to describe that shit. I always got second hand embarrassment reading that cringe shit. God damn. I got rid of it a long time ago. Recruiters are the absolute filth of the earth. They made me hate that site even more.
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It’s really useful when you’re looking for a job though. They have better job searches than everyone else. Though I wish they would get some better salary data.
Agreed. I found my current gig on LinkedIn and got like an 80% raise a few years ago. I stay off it unless I need to go job hunting, and I have no complaints, but I treat it just like facebook and ignore the feed/random bullshit pushed to me.
Yeah, I feel like if you don’t engage with the “social” aspects of it and just treat it as an easily-shareable resume platform, it works exceedingly well.
Though, getting to see an insight into the people you may potentially work with is also a nice touch, in some instances. You can get a good feel for the type of environment those people would like to foster in their workplaces, and make an informed decision about whether or not you’d feel comfortable working for them.
Yup. my current job came about because of a recruiter contacting me on LinkedIn.
That said, I don’t really interact with the rest of the social media crap the site has to offer. It’s there to act as a public resume and to attract job offers, not waste my time with social media crap.
I absolutely hate the platform. It sucks it’s even a requirement to get a job in any tech job (at least where I’m from, I heard it spread to other fields in other countries i.e hire a gardener on linkedin). The fake positivity and support for corporate overlords is just difficult to swallow.
The cringe land. That place was cringe it made me sick. “The fake positivity and support for corporate overlords is just difficult to swallow.” Is the perfect way to describe that shit. I always got second hand embarrassment reading that cringe shit. God damn. I got rid of it a long time ago. Recruiters are the absolute filth of the earth. They made me hate that site even more.
I find it to be a remarkably effective platform for marketing my open source projects