Whats the purpose of Linkedin?

[anonkunbrah]

Can companies/recruiters actually contact you based on your profile? Is it just for networking? Is there any use to it at all? Thoughts?

[John L]

From what I've seen it's just a cringe circlejerk of "motivational" posts

[Retoaded]

100%. I get messaged through LinkedIn by someone trying to recruit me at least once a week. We also used LinkedIn premium to recruit.

Its good to message people when you don't have their contact info also.

[blissful88]

From what I've gathered from Brad's posts it's a site to make business brahs feel more important than they are

It was a dead site 10-20 years ago

[RealLifeAlpha]

Enormous virtue signaling and self promotion circle jerk (ded fkn Srs)

[Xerve]

I get a lot of contact from recruiters based on my profile. I only use LinkedIn though when I’m actually looking for a new job.

[bfdehewdbyywhn]

it’s a dating site

[DesiredUserphag]

******** for Wagies

I have one and never use it or tried to get a job through it SRS. Get lots of stupid ass invites for interviews. Need to delete it

[desslok]

100%. I get messaged through LinkedIn by someone trying to recruit me at least once a week. We also used LinkedIn premium to recruit.

Its good to message people when you don't have their contact info also.

Basically this. Get mainly recruiters, and some salespeople. I work in IT, job offers a couple times a week, and sales/marketing for IT companies inviting me to webinars/seminars etc about their products.

[phaginator]

Enormous virtue signaling and self promotion circle jerk (ded fkn Srs)

This, bunch of wageslaves trying to look better than they are, fishing for a better wagecuck job, lol at trying to signal you're the best slave between a bunch of other slaves...just LMFAO!

Should call it Cuckedin.

[DolphinPilot]

I've had a dozen or so recruiters reach out to me with job opportunities. Most of the time it's laughable dogxhit jobs, but recently had a guy reach out about a job similar to mine, so you never know...

******** for Wagies

Yeah this, too. People sharing irrelevant retarded bull**** in their feeds daily. All the people on my friend list or people who wanted to add me only did so because they want extra likes and attention to the lame chit they post

[Hutrapper]

Enormous virtue signaling and self promotion circle jerk (ded fkn Srs)

Yup. Pretentious and cringey.

"1 person is noticing you"

"add this random sloot to your network"

fuk outta here.

[SuperHercules]

Another data gabbing site

[ProudKraut]

Getting recruited for high paying jobs

[meatlog]

yep, allot of wage slaves pretending to care about their mediocre jobs, posting 'congratulations' to other wage slaves who hit their 10 year anniversary at the some grocery store

[SuperHercules]

[mchabs]

Linkedin is probably the dumbest social media platform there is. When I was in college they stressed we needed on for the "networking" (was a business major).

It's nothing more than a way for recruiters to hound you for jobs you don't want, or for people to brag about their ****ty jobs and people to post "motivational" things

"Congratulate Jack Mehoff for his new position at XYZ corp as lead analyst!"

I deleted all my info from mine. It's a waste

[kcadrenalin]

From what I've seen it's just a cringe circlejerk of "motivational" posts

This and for companies to virtue signal for cheap.
HR departments live on Linkedin nowadays.

[CBRIT89]

I get regular interview invites, and that's off the basis of my posting. I get 10's of thousands of views on each post within a niche area of my industry.

I've lost count of how many meetings with external partners that say "I've seen your content on LinkedIn"

Just wish I could monetise it. Should just YouTube my content tbh.

[reinsdorfsucks]

I deleted like 5+ years ago when it turned into ******** 2.0

[Destor]

Yeah I’ve received quite a bit of unsolicited interest from head hunters etc on there but you need to be skeptical as they’ll specifically be trolling for the lowest rate to maximize their own profit relative to what they charge Clients

Have not moved forward with any of the jobs because they won’t be even close to what I can get through my network within the industry

[SaviorSelfJT]

It’s two things in one

It’s a cringey social media site, where people use it like ******** to post stuff to their followers

But it’s also used a kind of job board/recruitment platform

You should have a LinkedIn profile for the second use, but not the first use

[desslok]

I get regular interview invites, and that's off the basis of my posting. I get 10's of thousands of views on each post within a niche area of my industry.

I've lost count of how many meetings with external partners that say "I've seen your content on LinkedIn"

Just wish I could monetise it. Should just YouTube my content tbh.

It kind of in a roundabout way can I believe. Last place I worked, our marketing guy used hubspot to automatically post IT content onto my feed. He was actually a pretty good tech writer that would post regularly on new technologies and trends in IT etc. Somehow the more views that his content got based on it linked to all of our networks that were tied to employer somehow increased our search rankings. Whenever someone did a search on certain technologies we would be in the top few hits.

[naich]

At the very least its whats mentioned above 10x

At the worst its a Chinese/Russian data gathering campaign to figure out what the final stages of 3rd wave feminism has done to the American workplace. Its also a great way to figure out what combination of buzzwords makes a fat 37 year cat mom click a link, which in some futuristic world will be what determines all organic lifes fate, weither or not a fat 37 year old cat mom clicks a link or not.

[notbadnotbrad]

[ElectronicsBrah]

I would love to receive the resume of this person on my desk, so I could light it on fire during a cold winter day.

[meanstringbean]

It’s wage slave central for sure but as one it’s great to shop around for jobs and get interviews when looking

[TooAnabolic]

I once accidentally pulled a babe who messaged me on LinkedIn.

She was tryna get into my industry and about to visit Portland. Met up the first time to talk about that… met up the 2nd time to get drinks. I invited Ratfish too cuz she brought a friend.

Went back to their air b&b after the bar…

Ratfish got slapped and made the 2nd gal cry so he had to leave lol

Then I RDL’d LinkedIn gal.

She wanted to date me n stuff but long distance not even once.

But I’m probably one of the only people to ever do such a thing on LinkedIn… by accident.

[AWillis]

if you got a business, it's a good way to get clients

9k connections crew checking in

post something, get the sheep to like it, so all their connections see it

profit

[Destor]

I once accidentally pulled a babe who messaged me on LinkedIn.

She was tryna get into my industry and about to visit Portland. Met up the first time to talk about that… met up the 2nd time to get drinks. I invited Ratfish too cuz she brought a friend.

Went back to their air b&b after the bar…

Ratfish got slapped and made the 2nd gal cry so he had to leave lol

Then I RDL’d LinkedIn gal.

She wanted to date me n stuff but long distance not even once.

But I’m probably one of the only people to ever do such a thing on LinkedIn… by accident.

On LinkedIn maybe, but cut out the social media aspect and I think this would be a tale as old as time


Be careful brahs