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It seems the most difficult obstacle on LI would be finding a woman who is into it, unless a "dating community" began to develop and adopt subtle cues that they were open to non-professional type activity like that. As long as there is no power imbalance or conflict of interest between the parties. It seems better than dating in your workplace, or at least, casting a wider net. Other than that, LI seems like a ripe p…
It seems the most difficult obstacle on LI would be finding a woman who is into it, unless a "dating community" began to develop and adopt subtle cues that they were open to non-professional type activity like that. As long as there is no power imbalance or conflict of interest between the parties. It seems better than dating in your workplace, or at least, casting a wider net. Other than that, LI seems like a ripe p…
There are probably just as many women as men into LinkedIn.
We can safely assume that the general model holds: that of a glut of lonely men seeking out women, while any viable woman's account needs to fend off dozens, hundreds of come-ons every week. Any man who got a DM from an attractive woman's account would be perhaps leery of scams, but LI has strong verification signals that could weed out the obvious catfishing and fakes. Bonus: there would be little risk of underage encounters among professional workers...
Like I said, plenty of LinkedIn men would be into using it as a dating platform, but they will have difficulty finding women who are into dating at all, much less using LI to do it.
The surveillance factor of LinkedIn is exactly what keeps me entirely off of it... I don't think I've ever gotten a job by using it, it's more like a spare online copy of my resume more than anything else... It also keeps trying to create a new account automatically off of my gmail account that I can't close... Pretty much a waste of productivity for me to try to use it.
You dont get jobs on there because unless you have a “god tier” resume and application filled out, HR has to pay to unlock your name from your application, so nobody is going to do that if you arent the #1 candidate in all of LinkedIn that applied. LinkedIn is its own worst enemy.
I work in a relatively niche and extremely demanding industry, which may contribute.
I mean why not? There was a math guy who wanted wider viewership for his calculus lectures than he was getting on youtube, so he started uploading them to a porn site and built up a steady audience and income there. Added: did web search, maybe this is the guy, not sure. https://www.vice.com/en/article/math-tutor-video-lessons-por... https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/v3e8ye/i_am_changhsu_... Oh here's another on…
The surveillance factor of LinkedIn is exactly what keeps me entirely off of it... I don't think I've ever gotten a job by using it, it's more like a spare online copy of my resume more than anything else... It also keeps trying to create a new account automatically off of my gmail account that I can't close... Pretty much a waste of productivity for me to try to use it.
It is advertised as a necessary evil; "everyone needs one for employment" I recently deleted my LinkedIn. It is just used to data mine information from you. I think the site is generally pretty useless, even without all the privacy concerns.
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You dont get jobs on there because unless you have a “god tier” resume and application filled out, HR has to pay to unlock your name from your application, so nobody is going to do that if you arent the #1 candidate in all of LinkedIn that applied. LinkedIn is its own worst enemy.
I'm using LinkedIn ATM (searching for a new job) and all the jobs I've applied for have gone off site to the company's own applicant submit site. So I don't get what LinkedIn is actually locking up?
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I'm using LinkedIn ATM (searching for a new job) and all the jobs I've applied for have gone off site to the company's own applicant submit site. So I don't get what LinkedIn is actually locking up?
Nothing, that take is just salty. You can easily get jobs on LinkedIn. I've employed most of the people in my teams via LinkedIn over the years.
The surveillance factor of LinkedIn is exactly what keeps me entirely off of it... I don't think I've ever gotten a job by using it, it's more like a spare online copy of my resume more than anything else... It also keeps trying to create a new account automatically off of my gmail account that I can't close... Pretty much a waste of productivity for me to try to use it.
You dont get jobs on there because unless you have a “god tier” resume and application filled out, HR has to pay to unlock your name from your application, so nobody is going to do that if you arent the #1 candidate in all of LinkedIn that applied. LinkedIn is its own worst enemy.
I have been getting jobs from LinkedIn for my entire career (approximately 15 years). Mind you, I'm always nice to recruiters and respond to them, so I probably get bounced up higher in the search results.