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Honestly unless I'm planning on quitting my current job, or if I were unemployed, I just ignore the linkedin. Sure they spam you with "XX wants to connect", or

Honestly unless I'm planning on quitting my current job, or if I were unemployed, I just ignore the linkedin. Sure they spam you with "XX wants to connect", or "I'm awaiting your reply" emails. But real contacts and friends can call/email you, and everybody else can wait six months. Despite only connecting with actual people I've worked with, not recruiters, I still get "suggested" posts which are slop, and "that happened". The site is a cesspool.

milkytron 27d ago
I haven't had LinkedIn since... 2014 I think. I deleted my account after I got my first job offer and have never used it since. If people dislike the site so much, I don't understand why they don't delete their account. Is there any value provided, or is it the fear of missing out on potential future value?
- wredcoll 27d ago
  Every single job app I filled out in the last two years asked for my linkedin url. I don't know if not having one was disqualifying, but it does worry me.
  - floatrock 27d ago
    It's not disqualifying, but not having a linkedin is a signal that could drop you towards the bottom of the resume pile. Companies have problems with fake applicants, and ATS systems do create "how likely this person is a human" scores. Having an online identity is one signal, and for better or worse, that is often a LinkedIn history. Like a fico score, you can't escape the game if you want to play.
    - DrewADesign 26d ago
      Being dropped to the bottom of a resume pile in this job market is effectively disqualifying.
  - jjav 25d ago
    As a hiring manager, I can say that not having that linkedin profile is not disqualifying, but it sure hurts your chances, a lot. Your resume must be extremely exceptional to survive the first pass if there is no linkedin profile to correlate to it. How can I know if anything is true? I don't like it. I mean, I hate it. But when you receive 1000 resumes per day for a job posting, agressive filtering is the only way forward. My days don't have a 1000 hours. Combine this with so many people who fabricate a fake resume with AI to sound like a perfect match to the job description. I need to review it against a linkedin job history to see if the story is consistent. Hard to believe the number of people who have their linkedin job history say one thing and their resume is completely different. This means I must be very suspicious of people who don't have a linkedin history, because it means the resume may be completely fake. So it goes to the reject pile. It's not fair, but I have 999 resumes to review after this one. To summarize, if you are famous from conference talks, published papers or such, you don't need linkedin. If you are a regular non-famous person, you do need it.
aliasxneo 27d ago
I got my last two jobs from recruiters contacting me via LinkedIn. I've also kept in touch with a good group of recruiters over DMs who regularly bring me new offers. My experience might be unique, but I've gotten a lot of value being on LinkedIn. I don't interact with the social part of it (posts or whatever they are called) at all.
red-iron-pine 27d ago
linkedin is a mess. there was a glorious ~5 years in the late 2000s to ~2015 where it felt like it could and would work -- I know people who got hired and through it and I got one legit interview but since then it's slop slop slop

milkytron 27d ago

I haven't had LinkedIn since... 2014 I think. I deleted my account after I got my first job offer and have never used it since. If people dislike the site so much, I don't understand why they don't delete their account. Is there any value provided, or is it the fear of missing out on potential future value?

wredcoll 27d ago
Every single job app I filled out in the last two years asked for my linkedin url. I don't know if not having one was disqualifying, but it does worry me.
- floatrock 27d ago
  It's not disqualifying, but not having a linkedin is a signal that could drop you towards the bottom of the resume pile. Companies have problems with fake applicants, and ATS systems do create "how likely this person is a human" scores. Having an online identity is one signal, and for better or worse, that is often a LinkedIn history. Like a fico score, you can't escape the game if you want to play.
  - DrewADesign 26d ago
    Being dropped to the bottom of a resume pile in this job market is effectively disqualifying.
- jjav 25d ago
  As a hiring manager, I can say that not having that linkedin profile is not disqualifying, but it sure hurts your chances, a lot. Your resume must be extremely exceptional to survive the first pass if there is no linkedin profile to correlate to it. How can I know if anything is true? I don't like it. I mean, I hate it. But when you receive 1000 resumes per day for a job posting, agressive filtering is the only way forward. My days don't have a 1000 hours. Combine this with so many people who fabricate a fake resume with AI to sound like a perfect match to the job description. I need to review it against a linkedin job history to see if the story is consistent. Hard to believe the number of people who have their linkedin job history say one thing and their resume is completely different. This means I must be very suspicious of people who don't have a linkedin history, because it means the resume may be completely fake. So it goes to the reject pile. It's not fair, but I have 999 resumes to review after this one. To summarize, if you are famous from conference talks, published papers or such, you don't need linkedin. If you are a regular non-famous person, you do need it.

aliasxneo 27d ago

I got my last two jobs from recruiters contacting me via LinkedIn. I've also kept in touch with a good group of recruiters over DMs who regularly bring me new offers. My experience might be unique, but I've gotten a lot of value being on LinkedIn. I don't interact with the social part of it (posts or whatever they are called) at all.

red-iron-pine 27d ago

linkedin is a mess. there was a glorious ~5 years in the late 2000s to ~2015 where it felt like it could and would work -- I know people who got hired and through it and I got one legit interview but since then it's slop slop slop