As long as I need jobs and money I’m not ready to ditch LinkedIn.
Has anyone ever found a job via linkedin? I got the impression that the jobs there are fake and used to harvest CV data or something (particularly those quick apply ones)
Yes, I’ve always found jobs via linked in.
Though, I have been most successful through having recruiters reaching out to me directly rather than applying for jobs. Applying directly to companies is a recipe for being ignored.
I’ve always got jobs by using linkedin. Don’t even know how people get one without.
But usually it’s by interaction with people aggressively sending messages, so recruiters coming and asking if I want a new job.
I’ve not used the new feature they have where jobs are listed and you can apply from there, but at least some of the ones I’ve been sent messages for sometimes match the entries there.
Deleted it. Haven’t missed it all.
Everyone i know that actually used it for job hunting, found themselves in line with 8000 other auto-applications, so I don’t even think it is good for job-hunting.
When/if i need a new job, I’ll much rather call up previous colleagues and contacts and see what they’re up to and meet for coffee.
+2 for the “coffee with ex-colleagues”… that’s how to really open doors.
It’s not what you know, it’s who you know
A friend almost got a new position created (for me) in a company that wasn’t even hiring!
:)
Which is funny because it is the way to go - trusting linkedin to do it for you is the long way around. If you don’t have it, you will need to be more active (and that will be more succesful).
But i see recruiters having a harder time :)
For me it’s an essential tool that puts food on the table and pays my bills. I understand it’s not for everyone but I think some people are too dismissive of it for reasons that don’t make much sense to me. It’s a great way to connect with prospects and nurture customers. It’s an excellent, free, reliable social media platform and, unlike Facebook, it isn’t full of ads and pictures of people’s food or holiday snapshots. It seems fashionable to shit on it for some people but I think that’s more ignorance than anything else.
Personally I’m still there as I found a few interesting jobs there. Hopefully a European alternative will be emerge, but at the moment the only one (Xing) seems very German centric
Maybe new non German accounts in Xing will also attract international recruiters. Or?
Xing is good though. There are more and more non-Germans there too. Have been there for several years.
My profile’s there, currently just collecting recruiter’s messages asking if i’m interested in totally unrelated technologies.
Sadly there’s not much of an alternative. The other big contender is Xing but it’s made by germans to germans with ads in german so… they’re not an alternative.I exist on it, but I only interact with it every 5-10 years when I’m looking to switch up jobs.
That interaction is generally to update my work timeline with what happened in the gap, and browse through the sea of borderline spam from recruiters.
My current job didn’t even involve linkedin at all, so might not even bother with it next time around
