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A bit of tangent, but it reminds me of a funny story: I discovered one day that I am getting recommended "Long distance truck driver" jobs through email and some of the re-targeted ads. First, I ignored them, but in a week or two, it became apparent that it was not just a coincidence. After some research, I realized that I had listed "Device Driver" programming as a skill on my LinkedIn and personal website. I suspec…
Don't forget: LinkedIn is owned by Microsoft. Just like Github.
This is the reason why I never click the hyperlinks on LinkedIn (or anywhere else, including my email, also including hyperlinks allowing me to unsubscribe from services etc.) while in my main browser. Always sending them to incognito browser. If it requires me to be logged in then I just shrug my shoulders and not view it again. That's because I (as somebody who is not an expert in security) can't tell what those lo…
If i understand your description of what you do correctly, then clicking the email links in incognito mode does not help you in any way. The long weird url is almost always a tracking link unique to the specific email that you received. Clicking it verifies that you received and read the email sent you your email adress, no matter where you click it
A bit of tangent, but it reminds me of a funny story: I discovered one day that I am getting recommended "Long distance truck driver" jobs through email and some of the re-targeted ads. First, I ignored them, but in a week or two, it became apparent that it was not just a coincidence. After some research, I realized that I had listed "Device Driver" programming as a skill on my LinkedIn and personal website. I suspec…
A bit of tangent, but it reminds me of a funny story: I discovered one day that I am getting recommended "Long distance truck driver" jobs through email and some of the re-targeted ads. First, I ignored them, but in a week or two, it became apparent that it was not just a coincidence. After some research, I realized that I had listed "Device Driver" programming as a skill on my LinkedIn and personal website. I suspec…
Maybe add "Function hooker" to your profile and see what happens.
2 weeks later: See your new recommendations for job opportunities in Delphi!
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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…
When LI started, it didn't have much competition so it was easier. Network effects is not an impenetrable fortress. It just means your product has to have a really good reason for people to switch, and I dont see anyone in the work network space doing anything really better than LI. I wish someone was.
1. If there is someone that LinkedIn doesn't seem fit, there are three clicks necessary to make this person fit compared to one click for accepting the rejection. And it is visually made very clear that this person is not fit.
2. The fitness as calculated by LinkedIn it not working correctly by flagging too many people as being unfit.
As a result, inexperienced recruiters or HR staff would blanket disregard these applicants even though a lot of them are much more qualified than non-flagged applicants.
[edit] Here is the overview I created at the time. One might argue that the sample is small. But I think it should be possible to speak to applicants in this case. https://i.imgur.com/n7i5VtP.jpg
User-agent: LinkedinBot
Disallow: /
# Notice: If you would like to crawl us, # please email whitelist-crawl@domain.com to apply # for white listing.
*taken from linkedin.com/robots.txt
The unprofessionalism of the whole site is very repulsive.
