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Shameless Work Influencers Are the Bane of LinkedIn

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Re: Shameless Work Influencers Are the Bane of LinkedIn

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Post by gumby »

I love this piece, but really:

> getting hired via LinkedIn has, inevitably, become more about getting attention than being qualified for a given job.

Does anyone actually get hired via LinkedIn?

I have always assumed that the majority, and most extreme, of the performative LinkedIn “actors” are really simply wasting their time.

I find LinkedIn really useful for two things: looking someone up before meeting with them to see why we have in commmon, and using it as a candidate’s resume). I only really see the “feed” when some friend posts something and those tend to be things they have posted elsewhere.

Now my gf used to work there and she is an enormous fan yet…despite that she doesn’t post in the feed either.

So the rest of the piece is great, but is there actually hiring going on as a result of the feed?

Re: Shameless Work Influencers Are the Bane of LinkedIn

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Post by gumby »

lordnacho wrote: post #38

It's the faux-thentic trope pieces on LinkedIn that annoy me. "I was working so hard I forgot to be me" or "after years of constant success my daughter showed me what success really means". Apparently it means getting likes from strangers. And then there's the business tall tales: "I hired a guy with no qualifications other than a big heart and now he's running a multinational". "I made 10k job applications and lande…

“faux-thentic” is truly a masterful word, my lord. Now I have learnt it I immediately see examples of it everywhere

Re: Shameless Work Influencers Are the Bane of LinkedIn

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Post by jjtheblunt »

lordnacho wrote: post #38

It's the faux-thentic trope pieces on LinkedIn that annoy me. "I was working so hard I forgot to be me" or "after years of constant success my daughter showed me what success really means". Apparently it means getting likes from strangers. And then there's the business tall tales: "I hired a guy with no qualifications other than a big heart and now he's running a multinational". "I made 10k job applications and lande…

OOM = ?

Re: Shameless Work Influencers Are the Bane of LinkedIn

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Post by perl4ever »

ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #153

The post is absolutely correct, but this is one of those "let 'em whirl" things for me (inside joke -it just means that if it's none of my business, I am under no obligation to make it my business). I have a LinkedIn profile. It's minimally active. I post links to some of my GitHub repos, and dust off the mantlepiece, every now and then. I make sure it's up to date and accurate. I can't even imagine using it like Fac…

>rancor trolls

This is not a term I'm familiar with.

Re: Shameless Work Influencers Are the Bane of LinkedIn

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Post by 0xbadcafebee »

freewilly1040 wrote: post #122
hliyan wrote: post #96

Counterpoint: as it is with Facebook, the quality of your feed depends entirely on your connections and who among those connections you have chosen to mute/unfollow. I have over a 1000 connections and I've assiduously unfollowed/muted anyone in my network or adjacent to my network who posts anything that I feel is not substantial. A sample of interactions I had recently: Discussing cost/benefit of going for hybrid/pr…

That isn’t really a counterpoint. If you have to assiduously pick through a thousand connections to prevent a tide of spam from taking over your feed, it’s not a very useful tool. You could technically dig a trench with a spoon, but why would you?

To get the most career-inspiring worms

Re: Shameless Work Influencers Are the Bane of LinkedIn

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Post by ChrisMarshallNY »

perl4ever wrote: post #184
ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #153

The post is absolutely correct, but this is one of those "let 'em whirl" things for me (inside joke -it just means that if it's none of my business, I am under no obligation to make it my business). I have a LinkedIn profile. It's minimally active. I post links to some of my GitHub repos, and dust off the mantlepiece, every now and then. I make sure it's up to date and accurate. I can't even imagine using it like Fac…

>rancor trolls This is not a term I'm familiar with.

Trolls that are only there to create fights. They don't pick a side.

2016 saw plenty of them, and they were effective.

These days, they don't really need to do anything. We got this.

Re: Shameless Work Influencers Are the Bane of LinkedIn

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Post by Nihilartikel »

jjtheblunt wrote: post #183
lordnacho wrote: post #38

It's the faux-thentic trope pieces on LinkedIn that annoy me. "I was working so hard I forgot to be me" or "after years of constant success my daughter showed me what success really means". Apparently it means getting likes from strangers. And then there's the business tall tales: "I hired a guy with no qualifications other than a big heart and now he's running a multinational". "I made 10k job applications and lande…

OOM = ?

Probably 'order of magnitude' but I was amused by the initial reading of 'out of memory'.

Re: Shameless Work Influencers Are the Bane of LinkedIn

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Post by fakedang »

smitty1e wrote: post #48
truth_ wrote: post #22

I find LinkedIn really cringy. And I haven't seen ONE post there that actually added value to my life. It is also toxic as hell. But I know people who got employment offers from LinkedIn. So it adds value in that sense. I just mute and block those influencers. And check LinkedIn maybe twice a week. One of the things I cannot find any excuse for is how fake people are. They are behaving in a fake manner even when they…

There is one former military bigwig on there that is interesting for international relations topics. Which mostly underscores your point.

Jim Stavridis?

Re: Shameless Work Influencers Are the Bane of LinkedIn

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Post by smitty1e »

fakedang wrote: post #188
smitty1e wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is one former military bigwig on there that is interesting for international relations topics. Which mostly underscores your point.

Jim Stavridis?

Ding ding ding. You follow him?

Re: Shameless Work Influencers Are the Bane of LinkedIn

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Post by whateveracct »

throwaway894345 wrote: post #31
k__ wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Guess, it's like Twitter. If you follow the right people you get good content. The only thing bothering me on LinkedIn are the recruiters and that got much better in the last years. Most of the time I use it to stay in touch with old co-workers and to syndicate my articles, which sometimes (2-5 times a year) leads to new clients.

You can indeed curate, but I definitely get the vibe that cringe is the default mode on LinkedIn (which is still strictly better than Twitter’s default mode, toxicity).

Curating LinkedIn is like curating the contents of my cats' litterbox.
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