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

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Post by gtirloni »

smcl wrote: post #17

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…

> 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's pressure to ignore the UI issues and just stick it out.

I don't see a disruptor in this industry, do you know of any?

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

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Post by gurchik »

neilv wrote: post #10

Are you confident that LinkedIn itself is doing that, rather than some recruiter working for or targeting that different company? Or a recruitment SaaS that recruiter is using? (Recruitment seems to be numbers game for a lot of people. And I've noticed a few questionable integrations and duct-tape workflows going on around LinkedIn. I wouldn't be surprised if the phenomenon you noticed was an accident of one of those…

First of all, I believe it is a LinkedIn feature because I came across an article on the LinkedIn knowledge base site about this feature 2 weeks ago. Unfortunately I can't find it anymore... It's very frustrating how searching Google for anything related to LinkedIn reveals dozens of pages of SEO spam but I digress.

I'm hoping someone else can find the article I read. What I remember about it was: It said it was a beta feature gradually being rolled out, but if you wanted access sooner there was a link to contact LinkedIn to enable it for your company. The other thing I remember from the page is that it said it would automatically import 2 jobs per month for free, which is good because this is in addition to the 1 free job you can post per month.

Secondly, if I dreamt about this article or something and this isn't actually a LinkedIn feature, then I apologize as the title and content of my post is misleading. However it is still a problem that somehow other companies are able to post jobs on your company's official LinkedIn that link away from LinkedIn to another page.

I'm sure there's a way to opt-out of all of this (or at least I'd hope so). The problem is that we didn't _opt_in_ which is why I think people need to know.

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

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Post by erichdongubler »

glouwbug wrote: post #16
neilv wrote: post #10

Are you confident that LinkedIn itself is doing that, rather than some recruiter working for or targeting that different company? Or a recruitment SaaS that recruiter is using? (Recruitment seems to be numbers game for a lot of people. And I've noticed a few questionable integrations and duct-tape workflows going on around LinkedIn. I wouldn't be surprised if the phenomenon you noticed was an accident of one of those…

What's the difference? The end product is the same - OP's privacy is still undermined

You're right that the end impact is the same for OP. I don't think GP is arguing that this should necessarily soften consequences. It's pretty important to know who is responsible for this outcome and what consequences can fix the situation, though!

I believe GP's intended direction was that there may be very different conversations there depending on whether this is (1) a platform potentially abusing its users vs. (2) a platform's _user(s)_ potentially abusing other users.

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

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Post by abirch »

smcl wrote: post #17

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…

It seems like it should be easy to replace LinkedIn but no one seems to do it. I've looked at Xing and a few others. I loved the premise of LinkedIn but you can't forward messages any more.

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

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Post by jrockway »

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 really know what this is. Maybe trademark infringement? But you probably "signed" something giving them a perpetual irrevocable license to do stuff like that. "Tech companies being irritating in the third degree" is the best I have here. Not illegal yet, sadly.

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

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Post by Raed667 »

A few years ago, I worked at a tech company that shared a name with a restaurant a few towns over.

The company's LinkedIn (with our logo, connections, etc...) would show job openings for cooks and waiters.

I found it funny, at the time, and even went to the restaurant to try it out.

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

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Post by ska »

abirch wrote: post #26
smcl wrote: post #17

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…

It seems like it should be easy to replace LinkedIn but no one seems to do it. I've looked at Xing and a few others. I loved the premise of LinkedIn but you can't forward messages any more.

> it should be easy to replace

Often network effects dominate this sort of thing, so that's probably not true.

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

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Post by MonkeyMalarky »

faddypaddy34 wrote: post #6
ajb wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not the op, but the major group tempted to do this would be recruiters, who get paid by companies, not candidates

Or people looking to lure job applicants into a scam. The job being on the companies actual LinkedIn page adds all the credibility they need to lure people in.

Especially when many companies run their job application pages through 3rd parties. The phishing page having a different domain isn't suspicious at all. Most of the time when I check the career's page on a company's website, it links to something like "corpname.randomhrsolutions.com".
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