If the job ad on linkedin says "Easy Apply" it means the job was posted on Linkedin. If it just says "Apply" with an arrow that means it scraped it off another job posting site. Linkedin even scrapes the "number of people applied" from the 3rd party site.
Tell HN: LinkedIn is automatically importing job postings into company profiles
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Re: Tell HN: LinkedIn is automatically importing job postings into company profiles
#42They seem hellbent on having a rotten reputation. I do not know a single person who likes it other than recruiters (who all tell me they're upset about people not replying to their out-of-the-blue messages). Every developer I know either simply dislikes the LinkedIn experience, or knows about the company's shitty behaviour and despises the company (to the point of deleting their profile or not signing up). Surely thi…
I've deleted my LinkedIn profile years ago because it was annoying as hell.
Re: Tell HN: LinkedIn is automatically importing job postings into company profiles
#43They seem hellbent on having a rotten reputation. I do not know a single person who likes it other than recruiters (who all tell me they're upset about people not replying to their out-of-the-blue messages). Every developer I know either simply dislikes the LinkedIn experience, or knows about the company's shitty behaviour and despises the company (to the point of deleting their profile or not signing up). Surely thi…
I have the opposite experience. I don’t get any messages from recruiters after having set the appropriate preferences. And I use LinkedIn to connect to relevant people in my field.
Yeah, I really don't have that much of a problem with LinkedIn. It definitely seems like they do scammy things, but I don't really notice since I really only login to it when I'm looking for a job. When I set my preference from "not looking" to "actively looking" or even the "casually looking" option (forgot what it's called), the flood gates get opened wide. Then it's pretty much just like picking a job from a job tree because there's usually so many options from recruiters. Then I turn it off, and the emails pretty much shut down (once in a while one or two seems to trickle through somehow, which is annoying but not that bad).
For my intent it kinda works the exact way I want it to, but I really only ever login when I'm looking for a job.
Re: Tell HN: LinkedIn is automatically importing job postings into company profiles
#44How does this play with copyright infringement? If I advertise a job on my own website, and someone copies that verbatim and reposts it, isn't it a clear case of copyright infringement? (or am I missing something....)
Web scraping is legal, US appeals court reaffirms (April 2022) [1]: > Using a “gate-up, gate-down” analogy, the Supreme Court said that when a computer or website’s gates are up — and therefore information is publicly accessible — no authorization is required. > The Ninth Circuit, in referencing the Supreme Court’s “gate-up, gate-down” analogy, ruled that “the concept of ‘without authorization’ does not apply to publ…
Scraping is one thing; reproduction is another. I can scrape the Times but I don't get to mirror their site on my own domain.
Re: Tell HN: LinkedIn is automatically importing job postings into company profiles
#45Indeed has been doing some version of this since at least 2013, to my knowledge, and probably before. Google Jobs or whatever they're calling it does this exact thing as well (I mean I'm not defending the practice, simply noting that this is the norm among job posting sites)
Do you have a source for that?
Google Jobs' site [1] suggests the data sources are likely from integrations with other platforms (2).
> There are two simple options to make sure your jobs appear on Google.
> 1. I post or aggregate jobs on my website - ...
> 2. I use a third-party to post jobs - Check to see if your job provider is already participating in the job search experience on Google.
Re: Tell HN: LinkedIn is automatically importing job postings into company profiles
#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have the opposite experience. I don’t get any messages from recruiters after having set the appropriate preferences. And I use LinkedIn to connect to relevant people in my field.
Consider yourself lucky. I get hundreds per year. Maybe 1 in 50 are decently relevant. Many are mass spams. A good amount will be in tech I have no interest in, haven't worked in in over a decade, or have never worked in. It's clear the messages are sent without ever actually reading your profile or even job titles. I wish there were a way to control only the handcrafted / non-spam messages reaching my inbox.
The ones that really grind my gears are the ones that clearly guessed your current work email address based on your LI profile and standard business email username formats.
Re: Tell HN: LinkedIn is automatically importing job postings into company profiles
#47If the job ad on linkedin says "Easy Apply" it means the job was posted on Linkedin. If it just says "Apply" with an arrow that means it scraped it off another job posting site. Linkedin even scrapes the "number of people applied" from the 3rd party site.
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Re: Tell HN: LinkedIn is automatically importing job postings into company profiles
#48They seem hellbent on having a rotten reputation. I do not know a single person who likes it other than recruiters (who all tell me they're upset about people not replying to their out-of-the-blue messages). Every developer I know either simply dislikes the LinkedIn experience, or knows about the company's shitty behaviour and despises the company (to the point of deleting their profile or not signing up). Surely thi…
I have the opposite experience. I don’t get any messages from recruiters after having set the appropriate preferences. And I use LinkedIn to connect to relevant people in my field.
My recruiter invites have been dropping at a exponential rate once I passed age 45. LinkedIn is apparently a fairly efficient platform for age discrimination.
Re: Tell HN: LinkedIn is automatically importing job postings into company profiles
#49They seem hellbent on having a rotten reputation. I do not know a single person who likes it other than recruiters (who all tell me they're upset about people not replying to their out-of-the-blue messages). Every developer I know either simply dislikes the LinkedIn experience, or knows about the company's shitty behaviour and despises the company (to the point of deleting their profile or not signing up). Surely thi…
Linkedin succeeds because most companies suck at recruiting so much, that this bottom-feeder behaviour by recruiters and Linkedin actually gets people hired, much faster than they otherwise would be. Recruitment agencies and their cheesy, ignorant reach-outs are actually what gets the market going. This is because hiring managers at tech companies don't want to do the job themselves, even though they'd do a lot better.
Re: Tell HN: LinkedIn is automatically importing job postings into company profiles
#50They seem hellbent on having a rotten reputation. I do not know a single person who likes it other than recruiters (who all tell me they're upset about people not replying to their out-of-the-blue messages). Every developer I know either simply dislikes the LinkedIn experience, or knows about the company's shitty behaviour and despises the company (to the point of deleting their profile or not signing up). Surely thi…
> Surely this kind of thing will eventually come back to haunt them? I doubt it. Network effects matter and nobody is switching from LinkedIn for fear of missing out. There is no other work-related social network like it. It's different with FB/Instagram that there isn't much at stake so people will just switch to test something and then stay. With LinkedIn, the "what if I miss a job opportunity?" factor means there'…
I see “network effects” cited so frequently as this impenetrable fortress, but… literally every site that now has “network effects” had to fight them to exist, so it seems kind of odd…