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I've been thinking it's time to start moving away from that damn site. - If I actually want to start conversations, I get a lot more comments on HN or Reddit - When I was a job searcher, the idea of just being able to apply from my profile was really cool. Except every job just re-directed you to some form that wanted you to upload a resume anyway. - Of the handful of potential clients who have found me there, none h…
They 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…
tell me how you find job posts, do you disklike the concept of a search engine for jobs?
I was hiring on LinkedIn and what really annoyed me the most are two UI dark patterns. 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 unf…
Linkedin has been ripe for disrupting for more than a decade but nothing ever does.
Any potential disruptor would need a LOT of capital to get going.
I was hiring on LinkedIn and what really annoyed me the most are two UI dark patterns. 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 unf…
Not having much LinkedIn experience for applying, how could a candidate make sure that they fit a job spec? Is it just based on the skills you put in yourself?
This is just an abbreviated example for an Accountant
Score 1. Bar Tender.
2. Accountant no experience.
3. Accountant experience small business.
4. Accountant with experience across several business lines.
Score 5. Accountant with experience across several business lines and the right companies on the CV.
The fit / not fit comes from LinkedIn and usually doesn't relate to the job posting.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
What do the grades mean?
This is a grading where 1-worst and 5-best. Fit/Not Fit is the grading from LinkedIn
I wonder if this means that I should not spend too much energy on applying for jobs that LinkedIn thinks I am not a good match for, assuming most recruiters are not as motivated as you.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is a grading where 1-worst and 5-best. Fit/Not Fit is the grading from LinkedIn
Oh, I see - makes sense. Thanks for the explanation and an interesting data point! I wonder if this means that I should not spend too much energy on applying for jobs that LinkedIn thinks I am not a good match for, assuming most recruiters are not as motivated as you.
An algorithm that you don't know how it works decides that you are not fit for the role. Even though the algorithm is provably wrong.
Feels like Kafka's The Trial. Really Dystopian.
Preface: I hate LinkedIn Do we know that in fact LinkedIn is scraping? Could it be that the LinkedIn data science team is erroneously matching company names with job titles that are added to its website? E.g., someone from YMCombinator posts a page to LinkedIn and puts the application link to angel.co. Then LinkedIn mistakenly sees YMCombinator as YCombinator and adds the logo (no scraping involved).
LinkedIn may or may not be scraping. Just remember that scraping is a pejorative word for what Google does, also known as "indexing".
Google search results are indexed content.
Google magic answer boxes are often scraped content.
Taking OP's claim at face value this looks like scraping to me.