Can we stop this nonsense?

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LinkedIn is an absolute shithole. A couple years ago I decided I should try to become active on LinkedIn (I live in LinkedIn recruiter and that only shows me people’s experience and education, I don’t see any of their activity like posts comments or reactions)

If anything it just made me like candidates less when I see stuff like this (and LinkedIn is mostly stuff like this) so I gave up almost immediately

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I think connecting with people on LinkedIn can be worthwhile but as far as activity, your average LinkedIn user doesn’t have to post.

I don’t know who tells people that not posting on LinkedIn is any sort of red flag, it’s not, for the most part recruiters aren’t looking at your activity on the feed at all

When we’re actually sourcing we use LinkedIn recruiter and the output is different from your regular LinkedIn profile. We only see the basics, your experience, education, skills and your summary but we cannot see any of your posts or likes or comments. We’d have to go out of recruiter and into regular LinkedIn to see that and I don’t know anyone that goes looking for that.

I couldn’t tell you if the last hundred people I made offers to ever even liked a post on LinkedIn. I don’t even find it useful to post a link to a job I’m working on, I get no traction so I usually don’t even bother

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Not sure why plagiarism is encouraged in a professional network lol.

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Because it's encouraged in social networks

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Not to sound like an old cranky pants but the meme trend should be saved for IG and Facebook not LinkedIn.

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WHAT DID THEY TELL HIM??? 🤣

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What if it is ACTUALLY the same employee and they ALL have fielded this SAME EXACT question from him?!?

I know that guy, he's just a big job hopper. Nothing to see here in terms of these posts! It's all on the up and up!

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I think LinkedIn provides canned content and people share it to their network. That’s why it all looks the same.

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As far as the whole post or to verify that the 499 say the same thing?

Here's my question. LinkedIn is beyond trash right now. What's a replacement

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I don’t think there is a replacement (nothing I’ve found at least) but what recruiters see when we’re in LinkedIn recruiter (and that’s usually where we’re sending inmails from) is strictly your profile and nothing more (we can’t see any activity in recruiter) so my advice is just keep your profile updated and don’t even worry about posting or engaging

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Instead of investing into a candidateb job app review workflow that actually works, LinkedIn has decided it's more worthwhile to invest time into LinkedIn GAMING

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Looks like that was a latest LinkedIn trend- people start with same scenario sentence and add their own "witty" twist

Been floating around on Reddit for some time now

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Can’t wait for the memes of this

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Because empathy makes you the ✨️ star✨️ amongst your team!

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Full disclosure, I didn’t read past the first sentence.

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This is the very definition of privilege

Able to post something so absurdly wrong (Google PMs in the comments explaining that she transferred ladders when she switched jobs internally, hence pay change)

Able to become a product manager at Google and STILL not comprehend how misleading the race aggregation stat is “Black women make 58 cents to every $1 a white man makes!” not taking into account job choice and individual opportunity.

..all while the comments are filled with blind support

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Incoming (job title) vs ex (company name).
Which one is more cringe?

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Like, I dunno man, you okay...?

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This dentsu challenge thing is so cringe. Such an echo chamber.

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It's the "loves this" for me

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I have been waiting/looking for this exact bowl. It’s graduation season. Get ready for the “I’m proud to announce” LinkedIn posts that none of us give a piss about. May we post and roast mercilessly.

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Orrr, mgybe the CD nevrer respgnded beacujase it wasr painjjfully hacky and ccorrrnball?

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How are people this comfortable with public bragging? I will always be in awe 🫢 (1/2)

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Uhhhh 🤔🤔🤔🤔 this guy's tone is just off putting
Cont'd in the comments.

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y’all doing too much on LinkedIn… comparing having a baby to paying off debt. Great accomplishment but wtf is this post??? It’s so long I’ll have to include second part in another photo

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crying ceo killed everyone today on LinkedIn 🤣🤣🤣

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A little bit of motivation for us all.

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Is it just me or do 90% of the jobs being laid off by big tech sound made up? Many job descriptions with multiple bullet points that all kinda revolve around the same idea. One of my buddies works for a big IT company and literally just sits on meetings all day. No one really contributing to anything other than agreeing to whatever the speaker is saying. Are these kind of jobs finally being exposed? Six figure employees getting paid to sit and bounce ideas off each other?

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And now.. let me take a selfie!

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Biggest cringe for me has got to be when people include “ex-<company name>” in their title… see it for loads of the big 4 firms and I’m thinking wow you must love slave drivers that underappreciate you 🤣

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Nice try Accenture.

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No, you’re not. Better yourself.

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