Linked in sucks but I have to say all my jobs have been found by recruiters contacting me through it.
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SupraMario@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Stay off LinkedIn. It’s nothing but Facebook for people to act like they’re CEOs. It’s literally filled with people who are either working some basic job or not working at all or are some grifter. It’s a worthless site. Use job sites and find companies that look like you would enjoy working for them. Then apply and bug them for an internship. Once you get your foot into the industry, start networking with colleagues to jump to the next opportunity and just keep doing that until you find a company and people you like to work with that pays enough that you’ll stay a while. Also if you’re going to school ask your professors and classmates if they know of any opportunities that you could do for your field. It’s a lot of shitty ground work for a few years but once you establish yourself it’ll get much easier to land new positions and better pay.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 1 week ago
canadaduane@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
This advice seems off-base to me. There is value in LinkedIn connections. But you have to make the connections outside of LinkedIn. Then it amplifies the value of those connections–you can discover that so-and-so knows so-and-so and then ask for introductions.
It also may be industry specific. I’m a software engineer, and I’ve had several employment opportunities come from these connections.
SupraMario@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Yea but you’re still finding connections outside of LinkedIn. People join LinkedIn and expect that it’s some great recruiting platform, when it’s just turned into a massive social media circle jerk again.