Just can’t bring myself to wrap the LinkedIn green ‘opentowork’ circle around my neck. I mean I’m grateful they’ve put a tool out there to help, and it’s a good quick way to identify eager beavers. But for me personally it signals a level of desperation I’ve never had. Burn me for saying this if you must!

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I did it but didn’t have it publish a post on my behalf. It was like I flipped the hot and ready switch and my inbox lit up. I got my new gig from it. I wasn’t desperate but I was incredibly lazy about my job search.

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Good to know! I just switched my profile over with no post published & I was nervous about it.

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Personal POV aside...every recruiter and former colleague that has reached out...has specifically mentioned the green circle on my profile 🤷🏻‍♀️

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Thanks for letting me know this. Worth a rethink maybe.

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Yeah, I know what you mean. It is kinda’ like a scarlet letter. But you gotta’ do what you gotta’ do if you need a job.

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Too bad LinkedIn can’t figure out a way to let people “invisibly turn it on” who are looking to leave their current job.

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Well, nothing is. People talk too. One of the people I interviewed with told multiple people that I was interviewing for a role on his team.

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You’re lucky to have that privilege of never feeling that desperate before. Others are not so lucky. Pride won’t feed you man, gotta do what you gotta do.

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This is true. Grateful.

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I took mine down and my inbox blew up. Doesn’t make any sense.

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Hmm.. weird. Algorithm works in mysterious ways.

This may sound dramatic, but it feels like some kind of white-collar version of the sign a homeless person may hold up. (Completely different struggles I know).

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