I get occasional emails from agencies saying they saw my CV and I’d be a perfect fit for a role (that is a junior role and earning about half what I earn with shite benefits).
The silver lining to the job notifications is that it tells you which companies are hiring and for what. Don’t bother with their “easy apply” option and go to their website to apply directly instead. My success rate is still like 0.5% but at least they send you rejection emails more often.
Im really really tempted to delete my linkedin. Its never got me a job in my life, but I did notice a lot of people look at my page before I got a couple in the past.
Its not a very good system. Its just more professional facebook with less subtlety about people looking at your page. And they lock EVERYTHING down that is useful in a paywall.
As a veteran now of the corporate world, I can tell you that no job offers are made through Linkedin, at least none that aren’t scams and recruitments to pyramids schemes. Maybe if you’re a known and relevant higher-up and people smell opportunity on you they may try to headhunt you, but for most people this is pretty remote.
Linkedin serves two purposes:
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Show employers that you have a social media face and an identity you’re not afraid to present to the world. This offers people a weird reassurance when they see you’re conforming to the system and not going to like, steal all the office supplies the moment you’re hired.
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Keep in contact with coworkers and contacts you’ve made from your previous job before you were laid off after private equity bought your company and digested it. You HAVE to stay social and make connections at any job you have, it’s the only way you actually get positions you want down the road. And even then chances are usually pretty slim.
Don’t agree with number 2 at all. The only way to advance being networking is not by any means the only way to get positions you want down the line. Plenty of places actually hire on experience, skills, and merit, rather than nepotism, recommendations, and in-groups.
Plenty of offers come through Linkedin if you do consulting or contract work. Most of the jobs or contracts I’ve had over the past decade came through there.
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Linkedin keeps spamming me with jobs, even though I’ve told it I’m not interested in jobs. I had to stop it from sending any emails or other notifications at all, because it would keep sending them every few hours. What made it worse was that it was the same 5 or 6 listings it would repeatedly tell me I should apply to.
Once upon a time Indeed used to be good. It focused on tech jobs, had a clean, usable interface and even offered a service called Indeed Prime that was a recruiting firm focused on IC tech roles.
But then I went back to the site recently, and man, it’s hot garbage. The search was stupidly slow, like it was sending every keystroke to the backend in a synchronous manner. If I typed too fast it would drop characters. It was just bad.
Cleaning Soap job application requires 10 screening questions and your government ID before sending your resumé
Also 10 years experience and a master’s degree.
Pays $8 an hour.
How many years of experience are needed for tricking goblins? Also do I need any certifications?
Yeah these job boards get weird with emails. Like, they have all these preference settings in your profile, then they just blatantly ignore all of them-especially the salary and location ones.
