Is LinkedIn relevant anymore?
Asking because I'm job hunting and I've been told I should have a LinkedIn account, but I'm not sure who told me is up-to-date.
Is LinkedIn relevant anymore?
Nolan Lee
Isaiah Hall
yes, if i did anything useful in college when I was going for my IT degree is make a linked in and get it well connected. multiple job offers per day, don't even want to see my CV.
Elijah Gonzalez
You stand no chance if you don't have it
Unless your details can be found online, people and recruiters think you're a weirdo
William Edwards
It's BS once you are experienced a bit. Recruiters (sales rep) will reach you (organic / inbound) and then when you follow-up they won't respond. Congratulations you are now part of "reach" (sales targets set by recruiters' managers) for softwares that run on top of LinkedIn. And then there are notorious "keywords" filters. Fuck off this scam !
Isaac Garcia
I guess I'm fucked because I'm a social media ghost
Might make linkedin one day if I had to
Colton Perry
Wait a minute, this fucking thing looks like Facebook or something. Is it just more 'social media' bullshit? Seriously, is this stupid-looking thing going to do my career any good or not? It sets my teeth on edge just looking at it..
Leo Powell
i had it until linkedin pulled some shit where they emailed every person i've ever had contact with in my email my linked in profile
deleted that shit, will never return
it's also like a form of social credit because employees and employers can leave reviews. fuck that
Noah Turner
This
I have no social media but all over LinkedIn for my business
Adam Myers
..yeah I squicked pretty hard when it wanted to scrape all my email contacts, then started throwing names of people where I used to work at me, people I've never even heard of before. It also immediately wanted me to upload a pic of myself; I DO NOT DO THAT, EVER. Almost bailed out of it right then and there.
I do not use 'social media' because I think it's cancerous. This already smells way too much like social media. If it's going to help me get a better job then I might be able to hold my nose, but if it's just going to splay my life open to the world and get all my personal information sold off to dickhead companies so they can spam me and profile me and shit like that, then no fucking way.
Logan Cox
It's owned by Facebook you mong
It's a data mining company like any other, saying you can't get hired is like saying you can't get pussy without a Snapchat or whatever the fuck people use these days, it's not true in the slightest but people who aren't technically oriented use it as their go-to recruiting platform because it has as much data (and more) as Facebook does
If you want to work for "the big 4" or become a partner at some law firm or run/work for a consulting company you should just buckle down and use it.
I try to not use it unless I am looking for talent or expanding my network to potential clients, I do all correspondence over phone and email and don't let the platform keep tabs on my social habits outside of my professional networking tendencies
Some might call it a "neccesery evil" but then again some people say that about a college degree and I don't have one. "To each his own"