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Re: Tell HN: LinkedIn is automatically importing job postings into company profiles

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Post by nulbyte »

charcircuit wrote: post #36
mrintegrity wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

The long weird URL lets you unsubscribe without having to log in

Only sometimes. I've had plenty of long unsubscribe links require me to log in or jump through other hoops.

Re: Tell HN: LinkedIn is automatically importing job postings into company profiles

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Post by mattbrewsbytes »

Someone should create company websites for prominent tech companies, and add job postings for all the CxO suite positions with full descriptions indicating they are for replacement. For science, to see what the LinkedIn bots do. Assuming they get picked up, how long until journalist bots post clickbait articles about people leaving?

Re: Tell HN: LinkedIn is automatically importing job postings into company profiles

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Post by mostlyghostly »

wyclif wrote: post #139
derekbaker783 wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Drop everything beyond N years...

Yes. Most people's CV's who have been around for a while are too long anyway. The goal should be one page, with only the most recent/relevant experience.

Empirically, I'm getting about the same results from my 1 page and my 2 page CV, based on call back rates, funnel progression, and interviewer comments. Go ahead and use two pages if the incremental content is relevant to your overall pitch.

(In my case the extra material is relevant... I've run pricing at five companies, which is usually a massively cross-functional job. Unlike my typical competitor, I've also mastered most of the supporting technical, accounting, and commercial disciplines... which makes me a one stop shop for serious pricing problems.)

Re: Tell HN: LinkedIn is automatically importing job postings into company profiles

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Post by luigi23 »

bArray wrote: post #99

> It appears that LinkedIn is automatically importing job postings from other places on LinkedIn and other sites such as angel.co if the company name of the job posting matches your company name on LinkedIn. The irony when LinkedIn get so upset about people scraping their website.

`Do as I say, not as I do`

Re: Tell HN: LinkedIn is automatically importing job postings into company profiles

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Post by wodenokoto »

jsemrau wrote: post #87

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…

> 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.

Aren't you told as an applicant that you can improve on "x number of points, buy premium to see how you can become a better fit"?

E.g., it's an intentional upsell, to get not only the demand side of LinkedIn to pay for pro features, but also the supply side.

Re: Tell HN: LinkedIn is automatically importing job postings into company profiles

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Post by robinduckett »

My small consulting business shares one word of its name with a larger corporation so of course I get lumped in with this corporation and I get constant inmails and other such nonsense targeting the big corp (Amazon AWS reps who claimed to talk to me the week previously to discuss the corporations future AWS usage, despite that not happening).

Nothing happens when I report the issue, but LinkedIn still asks me if I want to “connect with other members of my organisation”

Re: Tell HN: LinkedIn is automatically importing job postings into company profiles

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Post by zh3 »

tedmiston wrote: post #114
sneak wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I've always wondered how this isn't more of an issue for the common archivers and news sites...

Indeed, Crunchbase even host photos that they've scraped from other websites - how do they work around the image copyright? (I know profiles where they've taken copies of staff photos from a corporate website where they most certainly don't have permission to reproduce).

Re: Tell HN: LinkedIn is automatically importing job postings into company profiles

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Post by zh3 »

jrockway wrote: post #27
zh3 wrote: post #23

How 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....)

Most people having their copyright infringed probably don't care to sue Linkedin over it because their postings are getting additional exposure which is usually costly. The problem the OP complains of is that some other company's job postings are appearing on their company's Linkedin page, which isn't their copyright infringement lawsuit to fight (it's someone else's copyrighted work). I'm not a lawyer so I don't rea…

Thanks, I did note the difference, it was just this reminded me of the separate issue I'd been wondering about.
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