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Re: Ask HN: Do you have to use LinkedIn to get hired?

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Post by Mc91 »

DoubleGlazing wrote: post #67

I have never got a job through LinkedIn, even though I get loads of contacts from recruiters - as many as 10 per week. The problem is that those contacts are poor quality. They are spammy as heck, basically mass emailing anyone who has a specific search phrase anywhere in their profile. For the last year my profile bio has opened with the statement "Recruiters: Please tell me what your favourite colour is if you want…

I am a programmer and indirectly got my current job via Linkedin. In 2019, a big four accounting firm contacted me on Linkedin to do consulting work for them. I would not have thought of applying to them but since they reached out I talked to them and was hired, and was placed at a Fortune 100 company. A year later (2020) I was hired by the F100 company.

Recruiters from Meta/Facebook and other companies have reached out to me since then. The non-spammy ones directly from companies I respond to, but told them I am not currently interviewing.

In your settings you can check if you're active looking, casually browsing etc. If you're marked as actively looking you might get more incoming.

Re: Ask HN: Do you have to use LinkedIn to get hired?

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Post by oneplane »

It depends.

I don't, not with what I want and where I want to work. But others might want different things and work at different places and if those places expect LinkedIn profiles they might think it's suspicious if you don't have one. I'd personally not want to work at such a place but that's not a position everyone else can have or has.

Re: Ask HN: Do you have to use LinkedIn to get hired?

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Post by rapfaria »

DoubleGlazing wrote: post #67

I have never got a job through LinkedIn, even though I get loads of contacts from recruiters - as many as 10 per week. The problem is that those contacts are poor quality. They are spammy as heck, basically mass emailing anyone who has a specific search phrase anywhere in their profile. For the last year my profile bio has opened with the statement "Recruiters: Please tell me what your favourite colour is if you want…

While I understand the sentiment and don't like LinkedIn, I would assume a recruiter view in the app shows aggregated data, or they would be looking at hundreds of profiles everyday.

I also did something similar saying that "My rates start at $150", and recruiters were still contacting me for $13.

Re: Ask HN: Do you have to use LinkedIn to get hired?

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Post by belter »

Dont forget about all their tricks over the years. We got post-truth recently, but one day, post-ethics will catch up with SV companies.

"LinkedIn is copying the contents of my clipboard on every keystroke" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23716451

"LinkedIn accesses Gmail contacts via ‘auto-authorization’ " https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12769494

"Stop Using LinkedIn" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9045677

"LinkedIn violated data protection by using 18M email addresses of non-members " https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18525511

Re: Ask HN: Do you have to use LinkedIn to get hired?

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Post by hackernews777 »

pkrumins wrote: post #115

You don't really need LinkedIn. The quickest way to get hired is to create a technical blog, write a bunch of interesting articles, create a couple of interesting projects, and make them go viral. You'll get flooded with emails from headhunters. (This is what I did.)

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Re: Ask HN: Do you have to use LinkedIn to get hired?

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Post by good8675309 »

I've landed at least 2-3 major jobs through LinkedIn. My current job and one in 2015 that moved me from making 5 figures at a local company to making 6 figures contracting remotely with a digital agency and it lasted 5 years. Also, part of this was making connections in the open source community, and optimizing my profiles, getting as many connections as possible. Taking on any interview I could get even if I wasn't interested in the job, just for the interview experience. I think there is a lot more to it than just throwing up a fresh empty LinkedIn profile. You've got to work hard to make it good and to make connections both on and off LinkedIn. And make sure you work on your soft skills, those have often won me jobs over more qualified candidates.
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