Why do people post so much crap on linkedin?

Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨nitefox@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨nostupidquestions@lemmy.world⁩

My feed is filled with dumb “advices”, so called “professionals” that post the most entry level stuff and all sorts of shit that if I were a recruiter I would stay away from these people

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iByteABit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Can’t wait for a c/LinkedInLunatics to be migrated from Reddit

So many people on LinkedIn are batshit insane

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- Balssh@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I agree. Of all the social media platforms I've used, Linkedin is the closest to an insane asylum I could get.
  
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- goetzit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  There is a c/linkedinlunatics@sh.itjust.works but its not very active… be the change you wish to see!
  
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  - silver@lemmy.brendan.ie ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    !linkedinlunatics@sh.itjust.works is the link as far as I know, /c may be on the instance but the ! allows for cross instance.
    
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- pieceofcrazy@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Damn I didn’t know about it and now I want it!
  
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Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I never really used it because even when I first heard about it when it was still newish, it was just Facebook but everyone wore a suit and talked about work related shit.

I initially tried it because I was told it was a great job seeking app. It wasn’t tho. It was Facebook bullshit with a different name and overall mindset.

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- Beardliest@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I think that depends on what profession you’re in. I get contacted on the regular by recruiters on that platform for jobs. It’s where I have found my last 2 positions in 7 years.
  
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  - dismalnow@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Likewise. It has generated several offers for me, but the vast majority of head hunters are playing spray-n-pray with keywords. For every good lead I get, I have to tell 400 people to fuck off.
    
    Oh.. you're a Sox analyst? Want to work in a sock factory? Want to do the laundry for a minor league baseball team? Want to be in a fetish video?
    
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  - Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I usually just got offers from people who wouldn’t tell me what the job was or how much it paid until I agreed to an hour long sales pitch, I mean, interview.
    
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  - WhatASave@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    And what field is this? Or what professions do you think so well here?
    
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- nitefox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Yeah, to me has been kind of useless too: I never found a job with it, while the classic job boards (indeed etc) have served me quite well.
  
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- Geth@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I’ve found my last 3 jobs on there. It depends on your role and area, but I much prefer it to classic trash ad sites.
  
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Leviathan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I know a dude who spent high school doing blow, dropped out of college, assaulted his mom while coked up, fucked around until his dad basically have him a successful company in his late twenties. I watched this dude cry at the kitchen table because his dad told him to treat the employees as equals and not dirt.

He now posts almost daily on LinkedIn about the keys to success.

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- totallynotarobot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I mean, having a rich daddy hand you everything is historically proven to be the most reliable key to success. So…
  
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  - Leviathan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    If only that was what he talked about…
    
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fidodo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
They don’t have real talent so their only hope of getting a job is fooling people who know even less than them.

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Macaroni_ninja@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I just ignore the posts, its mostly bullshit corporate propaganda and public asslicking.

LinkedIn is great to find a new job if you build your profile correctly. Work experience, skills, etc Usually recruiters can find you based on that. I receive at least 1-2 offers monthly based on this alone.

Also the job section is great, you can set alarms for certain types of positions with tons of criterias, like location, type of work, specific skill required, etc

The rest is just pure trash and cringe.

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- nitefox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Ironically, I never found a job through LinkedIn but traditional job boards work great for me (software development sector). I even set up my profile to be 1:1 to my resume, but it seems I never had any luck whatsoever
  
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  - Macaroni_ninja@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Sorry to jear that. Might vary from region to region or just bad luck. Im in rhe EU and most people I know uses LinkedIn primarily to look for a job.
    
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- TheyKeepOnRising@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  The only thing LinkedIn gives me is spam from trashy recruiters. The ones trying to fill a quota and do not actually read your profile. They are given a job requirement “Java” and fire a bunch of bullshit messages at anyone who tagged the skill.
  
  The first line of my “About Me” is a test, and 100% of recruiters who message me have failed to even read that very first line. And when I call them out on it, they always want to “schedule a call” to “sync up about future opportunities”. I’d rather they all get replaced by AI that will actually know how to read what’s on the damn website.
  
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  - Macaroni_ninja@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Reading the comments here it looks like more people had this experience. I also had a few unrelated job offers but most of them are within my field.
    
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Daisyifyoudo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
LinkedIn is facebook for professionals. Its pure cancer.

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- Emerald_Triangle@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  My company requires? heavily pushes? us to have a linkedin account. I just get so much spam email now that I’ve changed my position to ‘floor sweeper’ - still get all the spam
  
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  - gyurka66@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    And the funny thing is that it’s complicated to even block all their spam in Gmail, because they send it from a bunch of different email adresses
    
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- Gestrid@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I was gonna answer that professionals probably just use Yammer (since their companies probably already use Microsoft Office), but Microsoft apparently closed it in 2017.
  
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Puzzle_Sluts_4Ever@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
For the same reason that people used to have super fancy CVs and business cards and the like.

Back in the day? You were competing for jobs against the people in your town. Very few jobs involved people even moving across state lines, let alone cross country.

Now? We live in a global society. Even ignoring remote jobs, it is not horribly uncommon for people in more “technical” roles to move around the country or even the world for their career. And now you are competing against an entire country, if not planet, full of job candidates.

And that is where “building your brand” matters a lot. You need something that will make you stand out or make people remember who you are when they are reviewing CVs. I personally disagree with the idea of being a “hustle” person on linkedin, but I also know I got very lucky in when I was born as I have a pretty solid CV which opens a lot of doors for me. Whereas people even a few years younger than me need to fight hard to get past the filters and even get that first interview for a role.

And then you just have the act of keeping in feeds. Just making it a point to like posts and congratulate people on their work anniversaries means you have activity on your account which means you pop up in other people’s feeds. And I definitely know that I remembered the existence of an intern (who I actually really liked) because they congratulated a friend on a new job. Which led to me sending them a DM saying “hey, apply for this role”.

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HeavenAndHell@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Because a lot of people are jobless and try to make themselves feel better by trolling on linkedin. Also, a lot of people seem to think being on linkedin a lot counts as professional experience.

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Arotrios@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
The more dumbed down the advice, the easier it is to encourage your audience to engage. Some of those who agree with them connect, and the sum of your connections on Linked In is absolutely something recruiters look at and weigh when looking at candidates. Keeping it basic and bland ensures the widest audience and potential connection pool with a minimal risk of negative feedback.

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- nitefox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Idk, there should be a limit. Today I saw some random guy posting as a “””pro””” tip “ehi do you know JavaScript has a ternary operator?” And everyone went with “oh great advice so good” saying how their lives changed thanks to that
  
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Fapper_McFapper@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
LinkedIn, a social media network solely made to fellate corporate America.

Fuck LinkedIn, so many ads, so much fucking bootlicking. And congrats for whatever it is your bragging about now loser.

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gargantuanprism@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Yeah watching people have no lives other than their job is absolutely brutal and grim

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Rentlar@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Part of it has actual useful industry information, another has job openings and recruiter outreach, the rest is corporate circlejerk.

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InDogYearsImDead@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
All social media lives and dies by engagement. It doesn’t matter if you’re Lemmy, MySpace, or an obscure forum dedicated to ant husbandry, what keeps you alive is engagement from users. This generates revenue from ad sales and sponsored posts.

In my opinion the issue with LinkedIn is the duality of its use. Most users like you and I just create a page, upload our CV, connect with our coworkers and then close the app. We don’t spend time engaged with the site, we’re not moving a lot of traffic and we’re not purchasing services.

So LinkedIn encourages “content creators” to try and bring in views, and then they try to sell things to these viewers. Want to be successful like this person? Buy LinkedIn learning! Want to have recruiters fighting over you? Buy LinkedIn Premium!

Generic content just brings in content and they bill it as career development.

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Donebrach@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Because lazy hiring managers only care about people’s linked in profiles so anyone looking for work has to puff up their useless “professional” personas to even be considered for a job.

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- Macaroni_ninja@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Unfortunately this is my experience as well. Good thing you can create a nice profile in a day or two and just ignore the rest. Still its stupid to hire someone based on their pretend persona.
  
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MagnusRobotFighter@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I deleted my LinkedIn account after the 2nd data breach

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dQw4w9WgXcQ@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I might be in the minority here, but I see it as it was meant to be. People presenting themselves as professionaly as possible, linking to their projects and their workplace’s events. Maybe Linkdin is different in other regions or cultures.

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- mrmanager@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I think I’m starting to hate “professional”.
  
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  - dQw4w9WgXcQ@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Yep, but to me that’s what linkdin is to me. A playground for making oneself as great as possible for recruiters. I get my warmth and fun from other places, while linkdin stays freezing cold.
    
    I had to scroll through my front page just now to confirm that it’s still that corporate and cold bulletin board. Yep, every single post was either a corporate post about acquiring projects or holding presentations or some non-genuine post of someone quoting how awesome their company is.
    
    I kinda like that linkdin is just that, and I don’t have to look through it for nice personal interactions, because they don’t exist there.
    
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nagypetre@terefere.eu ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
the yt channel good work perfectly summarized why linkedin is purposefully cringe

www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMfBS4mBfBQ

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Landmammals@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Because Facebook is trash now

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supermurs@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I have an account there but I visit maybe twice a month or so. When we get new team members, I connect with them there but never post anything.

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magic_lobster_party@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
LinkedIn has that style because it’s so connected with personal careers. People are there to build connections. They post shallow shit masqueraded as professional guru advice to make themselves look smart. And if you look smart, people want to connect with you.

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Blaze@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Can’t wait for a Fediverse alternative to launch to be honest

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- nitefox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I don’t think it would fix any of its faults tho
  
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  - NightOwl@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Yeah, I feel anything connected to real IDs is destined to end up turning into a self promotion, advertising, product placement, influencer platform.
    
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jbrains@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
90% of everything is crap. You’re seeing more of it.

Maybe it’s just that simple.

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Alexmitter@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I never even understand what LinkedIn or xing are for. It seems to be only managers shitposting

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Zerlyna@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
It’s not what it started out as. Originally you linked to people you worked with that you recommend. Now people connect to get their numbers up. When I was job hunting several years ago, I was told it has an algorithm to boost profiles with 250 connections or more. So networking and getting your numbers up was a goal.

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shotgun_ninja@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Because LinkedIn is 100% kayfabe. Not a single person believes it except the idiots in recruitment offices.

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BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I liked it recently when some guy was posting articles on his LinkedIn about how his father was a serial killer and all sorts of bogus evidence that he had to supper that. It definitely seems like a platform for conspiracy theories, you bet.

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BrownianMotion@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Is it because Linkedin lets them?

Simple questions usually have simple answers.

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