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Talligan
Maybe you were on page 5 of the search results
Painahimah
Damn, I'm showing up in like 3-5 a week and most are colleagues. All job offers have been weird and at least $20k/yr less than what I make and I already don't make a lot
JackieTreehornProductions
Linked in has become the next Facebook as far as I can tell with all the BS ads and spam and even "stories" being featured that are borderline conspiracy/political campaigns. Nothing is sacred any longer.
SJBSavageInk
You were 500th in that search and half of it was linkedin scraping your data.
Just fyi, settings>data privacy>ai improvement to turn it off because the default is on in the US. :|
WhiskyBravo
exactly. I get so many emails from them about how many hits I had, but the only non automated emails are from shady IT contractors
dashriproc1
As an old guy who's now an executive, I can confirm there is a point where you have leverage over the recruiters. Recently, I've been receiving requests to act as an executive coach. They wanted me to complete questionnaires to determine a match with pre-existing clients. I said "no," and they need to provide pre-existing client details before I'll have an introductory conversation. They replied, "when can you speak?" If they want their cut of my consulting fees, we do it my way.
eyesoftheearth
I’ve never been a fan, but over the years I’ve come to hate LinkedIn and all the posturing cunts who post there.
Sypurist
I'm really proud of this email I got.
NorwegianSheepknuller
Just got an email asking me to apply for their recruiting effort, it's in my field, but I'd have to get a lot more schooling to even consider what they're offering.
AyatollahBahloni
LinkedIn is totally worthless.
Pimpsmurf
In my experience LinkedIn is about as useful as a condom in a lesbian's purse.
TheLookAndFeelMUSIC
Well yeh, they don't have penises so they'd be using a diaphragm instead... duh!
wodensday
It’s crazy how LinkedIn, ziprecruiter, monster, indeed, and CareerBuilder all have become absolutely useless, but there isn’t anything moving to fill the void.
JohnSmitheson
The number of scam listings has blown up in the last few years. I know my shit's been added to the identity theft queue but I need money now and the only legit jobs left are low pay and miserable conditions. IDK where the gov is getting their "economy is great" news.
Kotarisu
Simple, the stock market indices, because nothing else seems to matter to the corporatist system.
kojenk
I've been trying LinkedIn for a job to escape an abusive position where I fill a critical role but meaningless "errors" like the wrong excel format (the one they want causes errors) or sending a company email with the wrong image type (manager insists gif instead of jpg for still images??) earn me a lecture and an outlet for his anger problems. I am growing increasingly desperate for some sort of effective medium for job hunting to escape this. No results from LinkedIn despite my credentials.
LoftheDesert
I have been contacted by people from Pakistan claiming to be international recruiters for companies in Sweden.
Last time they asked me what I expect my salary to be in USD.
I said "I would like a bit over minimum wage. So a little over $60 an hour". That is not our minimum wage they said they couldn't go over 60.
That would be like twice the hourly rate of an experienced programmer. Completely bonkers if that were their actual salary.
Anyone know what their end goal is?
SomeDetroitGuy
Wait, what? $30/hr is the hourly rate of an experienced programmer where you are? Here in the US, entry-level developers are making $85,000/year which is like $40/hr.
timmmephisto
And how much is cost of living?
Wage alone isn't really comparable between countries
LoftheDesert
I didn't mean exactly double but I think 30 something sounds about right.
Also, that number also changes greatly depending on location. I just have a friend who is an experienced programmer and I asked him once like 10 years ago what he made an hour and said 300kr thereabout. It's probably more by now.
As the other comment mentioned, I think the US has a bit more expenses. We don't need to pay for health insurance or education, and student loans have almost zero interest.
TheobromineAddict
Warehouse work 5 states away from you.
SkidMarc25
In an industry that's only 3 years old and require 10 years experience.
fkuallimleavingthisterriblegroup
My profile is very clearly humanities based. Admin assistant with an English degree. I find more listings offered in my search for nurse positions than I do basic ass admin work (like…any secretary position is relatable but…nursing? That requires a totally different degree type and career path.) found current job on indeed-govt position that was vacant for 3 years.
Pays more than higher education and I get benefits. There weren’t benefits in higher ed because the position didn’t work summers.
TheobromineAddict
Makes me wonder if anybody has a success story related to LinkedIn.
Iresemblethatremark
Linkedin is something where it's never what gets you a job, but could be (because it's bad or you don't have one) what costs you getting one
duktayp
You're getting noticed! Now buy our premium membership!
PosthumousExile
Get 10% more likely to be hired!!!*
*Starting percentage at 2%
painstream
Seriously, fuck LinkedIn for that.
VaultGirl69
I have the premium membership. I bought it for the courses, but found them to be lacking. I'd be better off with the local tech school to show that I'm current in my industry.
SkidMarc25
What is this? LinkedIn or OKCupid?
ananfro
Yes
lastmanonearthbutidroppedmyglasses
Dude I signed up for premium because they give a free month, and during that month I appeared in no searches at all. Then when the free mont expired, mysteriously I’m showing up in all kinds of searches again, and I’d know who it was if only I paid for premium. Crazy how that happened!
NoNameFred
Clearly, the first thing that recruiters include as a search condition is "not stupid enough to pay for LinkedIn Premium"… xD
IdiotPatrol
The 367 searches were all by LinkedIn looking for people who don't have a membership.
DecoratedDeerSkull
Yah....ive been out of a job for 3 years. Everyone has rejected me. Even walmart has rejected me
notacobra
Linked in is Facebook for middle managers and other people will bullshit jobs as described by David Graeber.
tachyx
I see lots of low grade engineers showing off their poor skills by trying to show off.
MasonTheNosam
My email and phone number were sold to 360 unrelated third parties this week? This is worthless!
SomeDetroitGuy
I get SO many folks reaching out to me on Linked-In to sell me B2B shit. People are VASTLY over-estimating the purchasing decision-making authority of middle management.
Subsound
I wouldn't want any of the jobs shopped on me on linkedin.
HelperShelter
367? I'm actively looking and I maybe get 12.
lastmanonearthbutidroppedmyglasses
Depends on the industry you’re in and your location.
DrFlukeHawkins
I've spent a year applying and had one call back.
But watched Microsoft add and remove the same job like 10 times.
They aren't hiring, they are lying so they can offshore work.
SkidMarc25
Or they have somebody they want to hire already (via Nepotism) but they still have to legally post the job. Post it, hire buddy, close it.
tachyx
My last two jobs were never advertised. There's a law against hiring someone without advertising?
LitterBoxKing
Yeah, watching companies like Microsoft recycle the same role over and over with hundreds of applicants each time -- and yet never hire anyone -- pisses me off.
sambaah05
What role? Wouldn't Microsoft potentially have hundreds of people with the same title for some roles? So they might be hiring someone for it... And if they have hundreds of people in the role, they do have multiple openings a year...
DrFlukeHawkins
Not when the job gets taken offline and then put back online inside a week
sambaah05
Why not? They could have picked their pool for a posting, taken it down, then get another opening. They have 126,000 employees. For their more generic roles, they probably have 1 person quiting a week, if not more and that's BAU. From what I recall, Microsoft will keep someone with the same title, but change their "level". So for the same title they probably have multiple people quiting per week, across all their locations. If you aren't getting traction, remember hundreds apply for 1 job.
Clockworkdancerobot
Like always. A lot of them create fake jobs they never fill so they can whine that "America can't solve their needs" It's wage suppression.
TeamToasterNeverForget
Pro tip: Write you work in green hydrogen.. I work with that and get like 10-15 “hey we love your profile, please come work for us”’s a month
taez555
LinkedIn is the Classmates.com of job based Social media sites.
igglebotato
does classmates.com also scrape your content for AI uses without seeking your permission first?
igglebotato
You can downvote me but it's true - https://lifehacker.com/tech/linkedin-is-using-your-data-to-train-ai
kojenk
Trying to find a job through it but just not getting anything, not even a screening
Smidge204
...and owned by Microsoft.
WoopDeFrickenDoo
so what cool guy one do you use huh cool guy?
taez555
Imgur of course.
WoopDeFrickenDoo
selej
Do you know *HR person that fucked you over* Do you wish to add this person to your network?
Thej03k3rr
Same energy as Tinder/Bumble's "you have 100 likes"
all blurred, pay to find that 99 of them are bots/useless
QuigleyDownUnder
A congressman tried to link with my profile. I went through steps (too fucking many) necessary to close my account after sending them a message telling them to go fuck themselves (chances are they never saw it). Fucking hate LinkedIn.
salunatics
As a licensed engineer (P.E.) that's enough of a niche market search term that I get about 15 views a week from 15 recruiters trying to fill the same 2 positions. I reply, sometimes, with a figure that is a 25% pay increase which shuts them up pretty quick. But when it doesn't... then it gets interesting.
jesuisgur
Similar here, I have a very niche activity (only engineer doing that in my country) and I see linkedin searches, but I don't know by whom, so I can't contact them directly...
SofaH3ro
It's kinda funny when you can be like "that's this guy's old job, he said that place isn't great so I'll pass"
TeamToasterNeverForget
Yeah that’s more or less what I did.. I landed a job and probably even undersold myself a bit and still got a $2k/month pay raise
ActionJohnnie
You gotta open with pay and vacation requirements. Pay is really important but so is time off.
OvertleyBadpickuplines
So true, higher pay is great but I would go for 10k less for double the vacation time.
SithElephant
300 car insurance scams, and 67 organ harvesting.
tachyx
I get almost 100% Chinese factory sellers and middle Eastern college grads.
WynnCreek
Anyone who thinks someone'd pay for my organs is in for a surprise 🤣
ByThePowerOfSCIENCE
my organs are way past commercial ripeness
Cranbananarama
...Which organs? Think I got a few spares lying around.
TheWombatStrikesAgain
Look at the bright side: that's 67 people who don't care about your money or looks, but about what's really inside you.
HannibalLectersCatMittens
🤣 I'm one of them
TheRoyalDong
They care about the money they get from selling what's inside you.
reineseele
Jokes on them, my health is okay by work standards, but inside everything holds only together because of pure spite.
pandemicmodedad
For me it's duct tap and bits of string.
reineseele
*imagines a liver made out of duct tape dreams and hope*
XEndeadX
Except he doesn't seem to be dead, so apparently they didn't care about that either.
themikep
i hear organ harvesting is a pretty rewarding career
WynnCreek
Costs an arm and a leg for the training though
SithElephant
lozeldatkm
I have a video of a possum doing this to a trail cam I left in my shed
LompHoofd