Has LinkedIn helped your career progression? YES NO?
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YES it has. I get a lot of InMails from recruiters and most of the times its not a good match but some recruiters form a good relationship and they remember you. I was contacted by a recruiter with whom I had talked in past. She reached out to me again via call and discussed an opportunity that was too good to pass and I took it! I have a great job now with over 45% hike in pay plus a role that I like and lot of room for growth. LinkedIn is good.❤️
Love these positive stories! Good for you!
Yes. A FAANG recruiter found me on there and got me into my dream job.
Wow! Would you mind if I connect over LinkedIn to see your profile? Lol. I would like a FAANG recruiter to reach out to me. 😆
I had a lady respond to me negatively, so I viewed her profile as one does on social media, and she must have been paying for LinkedIn premium because it told her a viewed her profile. She said on a public thread, because I viewed her profile, I was "stalking" her and then she called my employer.
I had to have a discussion with HR, who told me they thought she was crazy but it still wasn't a pleasant conversation to have. I told LinkedIn about it but they didn't care.
I had something similar happen to me. I commented on a post about millennial workers and how my wife, who is in HR, had to take a course on how to deal with millennials and some of their work habits. I got dragged into my managers office and given a verbal warning about commenting on things that might offend someone…not that anyone complained or was offended but because someone might be offended.
Moved from G to Meta this year because a recruiter reached out on LinkedIn. LinkedIn is such a powerful platform for career development and can lead to huge pay increases
Yes, and a huge advocate! Three of my last four companies found me via LinkedIn. I likely wouldn’t have worked for Kaiser Permanente, Amazon, and Microsoft if recruiters hadn’t reached out. LinkedIn has also helped me stay in contact with connections from all the places I worked before, and in one instance a former HR director I worked connected with me on LinkedIn to ask me to consider returning to the company at a higher level to solve a specific problem, which I ended up doing. In reality, LinkedIn has helped with all the career moves I’ve made in the last 7 years, allowing me to relocate out of the Midwest to two different states on the West Coast, and increase my salary (3.5x what I was making at the beginning of 2015).
Besides having an eclectic background and end up being the unicorn they are looking for? 😁 More practically, do some SEO. If there are certain positions or type of work you aspire to, analyze a handful of job descriptions for the common functional keywords (online wordle creation tools can help with this, looking through for themes works as well). Use those keywords to explain your experience; you can do this in past job descriptions, projects, and About section. The key is to doing it so your profile still reads naturally because you want to show up in searches and show enough competence on your profile that the recruiter will actually contact you.
Yes! I have had 3 jobs in my career. For the other 2 I was poached by a recruiter on LinkedIn and got more interesting work and massive pay bumps
Why doesn't anyone poach me?
Yes, definitely. I get contacted by headhunters via LinkedIn, and I got my current job via recruiter reaching out on LinkedIn also.
+1, got my new job thanks to a great recruiter on LinkedIn!
It's okay, I got my most recent job through LinkedIn so I'm happy about that
Massively. Weirdly craiglist too. Got my first break on craiglist, but that was over a decade ago.
Additionally, If I'm looking to hire... or I'm part of a hiring panel... I'm checking your Linkedin profile.
Yes, 3 times over!
Totally lol
I wouldn't say it impacted my entire career, but I've made some great connections and landed a few good freelance gigs there, so it's definitely had a positive impact.
Yes
Yes
Yes and no. I got into my current job through a LinkedIn recruiter but also there's too many fly by night recruiters than spam we with junk opportunities.
Yes, not for job switching but for visibility. I am with the same company I've been with for seven years now, but over the last year my salary has jumped dramatically and our CEO knows who I am and watches for my posts. I'm getting internal opportunities galore, with accompanying promotions/pay bumps/stock grants. At this time last year I was just a Software Engineer IC...
LinkedIn is great for building a professional brand and getting noticed, especially for an introvert like myself.
Yes!
Not for a job directly, but it has kept me in contact with my network of current and previous co-workers. My network was able to help me with a new position in 2021.
Undoubtedly, yes! If it isn't helping yours, reach out to me on LinkedIn, and I'd be happy to share exactly how it helped me get a great job at Google, Facebook, Salesforce, and now launch my own business. https://www.linkedin.com/in/alanjstein/
YES: 10 Years ago I landed a job w/ a 40% pay hike via a recruiter pinging me on Linkedin. It set me on a professional course that I am forever thankful for. Keeping your Linkedin profile up-to-date is as good as keeping your resume up-to-date. Opportunities don't wait for your to be ready for change. I get a few recruiters pinging every month w/ opportunities. Sometimes it's about seeing people in your network taking new roles and reaching out to them about other opportunities.