Don't shit where you eat.
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But then again, workplaces are still the top places were ( later married) couples have met on average.
I like this! Going to use it at work because it's more work appropriate.
Meh, i thoroughly enjoyed dating a coworker. It was so much fun to have work dates, eat lunch together often, and help each other on projects.
Yes, it was challenging.
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LinkedIn just isn't for Jobs Anymore. It's Now a Pile of Trash.
Ads about pushing your career, then more ads about how to create a better work life balance. And everybody seems to be a coach who tries to push their courses about the above mentioned topics. Thanks but I'll pass.
My favorite thing is LinkedIn sending you spam advertisements disguised as real people chatting you. Every month or so I get a message from a spambot saying something along the lines of "Hello! My name is Diana. Have you heard of LinkedIn premium?"
Total trashfire of a website. Unfortunately, I still have to open it every now and then to adjust my profile and check for jobs, because it feels like everyone asks for your linkedin page when applying now.
I decided to check if it was any better than my current specialized job portal, which has enshittified a little in the last years. But Linkedin enshittification can't be beat. It's like prostitution level of job seeking for brainwashed people. What jobs are you applying for?
What jobs are you applying for?
Game dev, mainly. I use other websites to apply but there's usually a spot dedicated for your linkedin profile, a lot of recruiters expect your portfolio to be on there.
You don't have to actually browse the site. You put your resume on there, give out the link when asked and occasionally you get contacted by recruiters with an open position. You can turn off most emails so if nothing else at least you're not bothered by it.
I'm not sure why people are so enraged by a website they can simply ignore most of the time.
Don’t worry office creeps who make unwanted advances towards coworkers, LinkedIn has your back. A new harassment platform for a new age.
Every app is a dating app if you're persistent enough.
I found the love of my life using MS Word
I made her mine using the command line and sudo
The true story on which they based the movie Weird Science.
The true story on which they based the movie Her.
So hot!
In case you want to date the most annoying people on earth
LinkedIn is an aggregation of everything wrong with social media. I got laid off and tried to use it to find a job, never again.
YMMV
I got laid off, got the LinkedIn premium (free for one month). Got hired before the trial ran out.
Never looked into it, what exactly does to help on the being hired part? It advertise you more somehow or what? I only remember the thing about being able to see who checked your profile I think...
You can contact people directly and if the job posting is in LinkedIn you can see the experience level of other applicants.
The bit about seeing other applicants was key for me, I dared to apply for a job I thought I wasn’t qualified for.
tried to use it to find a job, never again.
Can I ask why?
Like I am not a big fan of the social network part, with people sharing stupid stuff and other things but for finding a job or so they can find you and see your experience and so on it didn't seem that bad.
I'm a software developer and many job postings for my skill sets are getting 500+ applicants, so my strategy was to try to network on the platform. The whole experience was demoralizing, sure other job boards might have the same number of applicants, but I really feel like the easy apply button just creates more competition. My inbox is always open for recruiters though, that is the only positive for me.
Right, so I've lived my whole life constantly being told that I can't read social cues and that everyone else has this magical ability to understand subtext and all that. Which makes this article so confusing to me because it reads like the author is so oblivious to how people actually work.
The article can be summed up as basically:
- Turns out, people can find love by talking to each other and don't need specially designed apps.
- But it can't happen organically, you need to use some app to do so and look out specifically for love. Obviously.
- Relationships are entirely transactional and are based on your partner's academic and business performance.
All with this creepy undertone that sexual harassment should be delegated to a footnote and subject to a cost-benefit analysis rather than, you know, avoided entirely.
Title made me go "ew", your comment saved me clicking through to confirm.. Thanks.
This has been happening for a long long time now. There is a reason why many women do not post a headshot on Linked In.
My wife was looking for a new gig 5 years ago, and was constantly getting tons of DMs from dudes who wanted to fuck. And her pic was pretty damn conservative/ professional. Just a headshot with a smile.
There should be some sort of way of flagging and shaming these creeps.
She smiled so she wants the D!
Sadly that’s the level some men operate at…
As i tell everyone else, LinkdIn is a glorified facebook for boomers. The only time i will ever update my profile is if I am looking for a job.
Facebook is Facebook for boomers.
"No it's not." Me, reading this headline.
Not surprised when people started treating LinkedIn like their Facebook years ago.
Was it ever for jobs?
Been an active user for well over 5 years and not one interaction has resulted in a job.
A bunch of people acting like they were hiring, sure.
I landed my last two jobs (and in that timeframe another four offers and probably a dozen recruitment pitches I seriously entertained to some degree or other) via LinkedIn, either via contact with colleagues or messages from recruiters. Granted that I'm in a niche specialty of a relatively small profession, but for me LinkedIn has been the most reliable source of job offers for at least a decade. Many of the "better" options really only serve fields like the tech industry, or are so dominated by listings for tech jobs that have appropriated my industry's professional titles that it's impossible to sort any signal from the noise.
A former co-worker messaged me via LinkedIn to tell me about a job (that I got). But other than that... No use.
I've gotten multiple offers from things that began on LinkedIn. At least five, probably more. I accepted one.
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Like I know tinder is deeply enshittified, but please. I don't need this.
#OpenToLove
The pink profile banner
I already had an older man try to slide into my DMs
Are you interested in a new and exciting direction for your career?
Gross
This is the best summary I could come up with:
While each of the men had the plausible deniability of a connection or two in common with her, she said it was immediately clear that their motives were not strictly professional — one of them worked in the oil industry, a field far removed from anything she'd ever done for a living.
In an age with so many dedicated dating platforms — from giants such as Tinder, Bumble, and Hinge to niche apps including Feeld (for the unconventional), Pure (for the noncommittal), and NUiT (for the astrologically inclined) — why mix Cupid's arrow with corporate updates?
Because the professional-networking site asks users to link to their current and former employers' profile pages, it offers an additional layer of credibility that other social-media platforms lack.
In his bio, Hotz declared that he now used the site "exclusively as a dating platform" and laid out a catalog of requisite attributes — "intelligent, attractive, female, in or visiting San Diego" — for his ideal match.
"If someone is willing to take their time and let the initial professional connection evolve in a way that is mutually respectful," Yager said, "and if both parties somehow communicate their availability for romance, and they want to go the next step — which might mean a phone or Zoom call or meeting in person in a safe public place — hopefully it is a win-win."
A significant proportion of younger professionals may have missed out on this type of in-person workplace camaraderie altogether, which could help to explain LinkedIn's recent surge in popularity among teens and 20-somethings.
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To misquote John Waters,
If you go home with someone and they have LinkedIn in their browser history, don't fuck them!
I have to use LinkedIn for my job, don't pick on the factota, pick on the executives! The only war is class war.
I finally pulled the trigger on it and put mine on hibernate. Will activate it again if I’m looking for work, but hopefully not in the near future (just started a new job last month).
Depending on what you do for a living, it might make sense to leave it up so recruiters can hit you up proactively and or you can get a sense for what the job market looks like.
Parts of the tech sector are pretty slow right now, and I keep mine up to date. I’m not one of those nuts who posts crap, but linked in’s recruiting tools can find me and contact me.
Often times someone proactively contacts me about a new gig right when I’m thinking of jumping ship.
I get that, but I have not had any luck through LinkedIn even though I use that as my main resource. All the jobs I had in my career were through in-person networking, applying directly through their site or indeed.