You HAD one week, three weeks ago. Fuck.
My mom tells me that “You can’t get a job without LinkedIn”. I’m currently not looking for a job, but is this really true? Do I really need to surrender my dater to Big Daddy MegaShart so that I can put food on my family?
sigh yes
If you’re in any sort of white collar job, not having a LinkedIn profile that is decent will make employers (specifically HR people) think you are a bot.
It’s terrible. But you will have a much harder time getting a job without it.
Watch for this to change, almost overnight. Gen Z has different expectations and there’s a huge anti-social-network movement building within it. It’s very common for me to run into younger people now who don’t have FB or Insta. Linkedin is next as it’s so cringey and becoming less useful. 10, 15 years ago I could really use the platform to engage recruiters and land interviews. Now fit’s a wasteland of influencers pumping out meaningless posts. There is no value there.
I want to agree with you but I doubt it. LinkedIn’s value is generated by corporations, not it’s users. So long as companies use it to vet people, it will be used.
It’s the same reason why we still have applications. Recruiters hate them because they have to sort through hundreds of applications. Candidates hate them because they spend precious time updating their resume for the job post only to get buried under a bunch of AI slop.
The process exists because corporations want it.
It’s been years since I got hired anywhere that even checked it. HR only cared about the exact data in the exact format their system wanted it, so they could compare fast. They’re taking in like 1,000 apps for every job they post, so they need to be able to sort and filter down to the 3-5 employees they want to interview without having to do boring hand research.
I’ve been on hiring panels myself and don’t bother because it’s usually just a copy of their resume which I already have in front of me. I do not care about their opinions on the latest management book they read, unless it’s important enough to bring up in the interview (sometimes it is!)
I had forgotten, thank you very much.
Settings --> Data Protection --> Data for Generative AI Improvements. Toggle it off.
Thanks for the link!
cool.
it has my badge photo, my degrees, and my network connections.
I don’t interact with anyone on there and simply use it as a digital Rolodex.
good luck training shit from me.
That’s still useful data to train on.
Fuck that, lean in! Generate a fake profile with ChatGPT. You’re not an IT drone, you got a Wharton MBA. You spent 10 years volunteering as a street sweeper for Doctors Without Borders in Port-au-Prince before you got your big break in forensic accounting. In your spare time you enjoy carving tiny canoes out of toothpicks and staging mock naval battles with the bugs you catch as an amateur entomologist. LLMs can’t make our lives better, but we sure as shit can make them worse.
