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      Seeing how some users already interpret is as a dating app … they’re not the only ones

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      LinkedIn reminds me of that scene in Men in Black where they discover a weird little society living inside a locker. But instead of a locker, it’s a job board.

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        Yeah, I’d agree with that. For a few years it worked well for me, just had to block tons of accounts to be left with just news and posts of my field of work.

        Then like half a year ago or so that stopped working. Now its just trash like everything else.

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      Already seeing many using it as a Tumblr/Twitter replacement where they share shower thoughts unprompted. It’s really odd.

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      EITHER:

      • they are incompetent, & not understanding Branding, at all ( read the books of Al Ries on Branding, Marketing, Focus, etc, and that book on Focus is the core of why LinkedIn is now hosed )

      XOR:

      • somebody in upper-management there is a trojan, the same as Steve Ballmer got a trojan into Nokia, as a means of harvesting all sorts of patent-rights while destroying Nokia ( what Citadel & Boston Consulting Group did to Sears is the same, except that Citadel was shorting it, instead of getting a sea of patent-licenses )

      ( well, OK, the combination of both is actually-possible, but less-likely? )


      In either case, what they’re doing, besides Microsofting the joint, ( the verb “to Microsoft” means to highjack/trojan/enshittify/rot-all-value-from a company through partial/total ownership ), is they are making-certain that whatever competitor should appear on the horizon, Microsoft is stacking-odds FOR that competitor, against LinkedIn.

      Same as how MySpace made certain that people disliked it enough to suddenly-jump-ship when Facebook came around…

      Anti-strategy.

      CORE Anti-strategy.


      We evidently haven’t figured-out how to test for strategic intelligence, yet, as it obviously has nothing, whatsoever, to do with SAT++.

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    Top 10 on the leaderboard get boosted in job searches.

    But in all seriousness, this is why searching continuous growth ruins products. LinkedIn had a decent thing going as a job board a few years ago. Instead of focusing on that experience (which is still surprisingly underdeveloped) it added all this useless shit and became a Facebook with a paper thin mask of professionalism. It is now a place used mostly to spread toxic corporate culture and I dread its logo any time I open it to search for a job.

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      I have been looking for a job for 4 months now and have never used LinkedIn to search. I had very good experiences with Google for Jobs, where I could set up alerts for certain search terms and the radius in which I was searching, whereby you can also exclude cities if necessary. This meant I didn’t have to use another job board, I only used it for forwarding. Since the last rework, Google for Jobs almost always finds the company websites with the job advertisments directly, so I no longer have to look at job boards at all, a very pleasant experience. I used LinkedIn once to test it and all that came up was generic crap, it’s unbelievable how a site that’s supposed to be about professional life can be so sub-par at finding jobs. And just to conclude this post, I successfully found a job with this method.

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        Indeed has always been the best one in my personal experience. Monster is making comeback, which you just love to see when an old dog learns new tricks.

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        I never knew Google for Jobs existed. I will try it out, hopefully I can get something out of it before Google kills it.

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          Lol… I almost instinctively didn’t even bother looking for it because OP used past tense, so I assumed Google already eliminated it like many useful things they invent.

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      Employers, as a general body, fundamentally disagree with what the fediverse stands for

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        What do you mean?

        My boss loves free shit. Ain’t never met one who didn’t.

        I always check whether each piece of deployed FOSS Software is Free for Commercial Use only to find out the answer is **“It should be”. ** Lord knows my employer can afford it.

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    LinkedIn plans to get added to every company’s IT blacklist for adding gaming to its platform.

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    Remote trust fall and other work appropriate virtual ice breaker games you can play with Tim from accounting.

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    So with LinkedIn losing its shit, where is the next place to go to for doing what LinkedIn was supposed to be good at?

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      You have xing, but it’s big in DACH countries only and its still owned/ruled by a company. Roll up our own website and socialize / network with like minded people on the fediverse instead.

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      Was it supposed to be good at something? I was only ever told to to get it in case an employer Googles me, never to actually try to find jobs. That’s what indeed is for (or in my case just going directly to the employer’s website).

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    i cant imagine anything i’d like to do less than play video games with people specifically on linkedin

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    So Farmville? People can harvest while they browse for the daily motivational quote about how great of leader everybody is.