Has anyone ever gotten a job via #LinkedIn or are we all just pretending it’s a job board
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@stux I closed my LinkedIn account YEARs ago. Worthless site.
@stux My son is convinced that he got his current job through contacts he had on the site. This is on the basis that 'its who you know that matters'.
He found the job searching and recruitment side of it hopeless though
@stux @Remittancegirl Yes, someone contacted me on there because they’d seen my name in the credits of a magazine and figured that was how to contact me. I ended up working for her for a bit.
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@stux strangely enough, my architect ex-wife got her first local architect job after we moved US states via a headhunter reaching out on LinkedIn.
Yes, multiple through networking and people finding me there.
@stux LinkedIn is still a thing?!
@stux I got my current job by applying directly on LinkedIn & for the previous one I was found on LinkedIn by someone in the company's recruiting team (but that was more than 10 years ago).
But yeah, like someone else said, it's a numbers game. And it's a terrible experience. I long for retirement so I can finally kill my LinkedIn account.
10 years ago, someone I used to work with reached out to me, but there was no job posting.
@stux I got my current job (of two years) there via a recruiter who saw my profile.
Nowadays, though, AI CV screening and bots have kinda ruined it. 100+ people apply within seconds of a job being posted.
@stux I think there might be some that get jobs via LI, but I really do think it’s just a data-mining scheme for Microsoft at this point. They can use it as a social graph, albeit for business, but selling that data is probably very lucrative.
@stux The last time I had to look for a job was about 40 years ago but every so often I receive offers from recruiters for positions dealing with Microsoft or AWS platforms. If LI is supposed to be a kind of job board it isn't working that well in my opinion.
@stux I received many filmmaking job offers and speaking opportunities via the old Twitter (RIP dear bird) but never ever via LinkedIn...
@stux my recruiting team still sources off of it heavily
@stux The latter. It's actually a data harvesting and spam farm.
@stux Yea, back in the magical days of being courted by recruiters. It’s a wasteland nowadays.
@stux The candidate I last hired applied via LinkedIn. I found that that a huge majority of applicants were poor candidates and other places I advertised offered, on average, higher quality candidates. But the winner did apply via LinkedIn. This was over a year ago and the number of LinkedIn applicants was very high. Due to AI I can’t imagine how many applications we will get the next time we advertise a new opening. BTW, I read every application myself.
@stux the problem is it's the place all the people who worked with me are, so the way I've got jobs there is by direct messaging those people when they are hiring. It's professional Facebook: no one likes it but the platform business model makes it sticky.
@stux I posted that I was looking & someone I knew from way back saw it & hired me.
@stux I landed my current job by way of a post I found there. That was after north of 300 applications to listings drawn from quite s few sources tho LI was probably the single largest.
@stux I got one a few years ago (5 maybe), but I think it was different back then.
@stux most vacancies I find there, but that's just quantity. It's like ice cold sales. The best leads are still about knowing people.
@stux I found my current job through a posting on LI. (Nearly 5 years ago)
@stux no but I met someone who said they had once... 🤷😁
@stux One of my current colleagues was found through LinkedIn
#LinkedIn