2026-11-09 11:38 UTC
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@ivor@social.ivor.org 2026-11-09 11:38
@stux@mstdn.social no but I met someone who said they had once... 🤷😁
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@johnnythan@tuebingen.network 2026-11-09 11:38
@stux@mstdn.social I found my current job through a posting on LI. (Nearly 5 years ago)
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@qevlarr@masto.nu 2026-11-09 11:41
@stux@mstdn.social most vacancies I find there, but that's just quantity. It's like ice cold sales. The best leads are still about knowing people.
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@guille@masto.ai 2026-11-09 11:42
@stux@mstdn.social I got one a few years ago (5 maybe), but I think it was different back then.
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@davidbraze@mstdn.social 2026-11-09 11:47
@stux@mstdn.social I landed my current job by way of a post I found there. That was after north of 300 applications to listings drawn from quite s few sources tho LI was probably the single largest.
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@syntaxseed@phpc.social 2026-11-09 11:47
@stux@mstdn.social I posted that I was looking & someone I knew from way back saw it & hired me.
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@paulc@mstdn.social 2026-11-09 11:49
@stux@mstdn.social The candidate I last hired applied via LinkedIn. I found that that a huge majority of applicants were poor candidates and other places I advertised offered, on average, higher quality candidates. But the winner did apply via LinkedIn. This was over a year ago and the number of LinkedIn applicants was very high. Due to AI I can’t imagine how many applications we will get the next time we advertise a new opening. BTW, I read every application myself.
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@midnight@beige.party 2026-11-09 12:05
@stux@mstdn.social Yea, back in the magical days of being courted by recruiters. It’s a wasteland nowadays.
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@Eetschrijver@mastodon.social 2026-11-09 12:07
@stux@mstdn.social The latter. It's actually a data harvesting and spam farm.
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@luxmoore@mastodon.social 2026-11-09 12:11
@stux@mstdn.social my recruiting team still sources off of it heavily
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@_elena@mastodon.social 2026-11-09 12:14
@stux@mstdn.social I received many filmmaking job offers and speaking opportunities via the old Twitter (RIP dear bird) but never ever via LinkedIn...
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@waynedixon@mastodon.social 2026-11-09 12:28
@stux@mstdn.social I think there might be some that get jobs via LI, but I really do think it’s just a data-mining scheme for Microsoft at this point. They can use it as a social graph, albeit for business, but selling that data is probably very lucrative.
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@darkpaw@mstdn.social 2026-11-09 13:16
@stux@mstdn.social I got my current job (of two years) there via a recruiter who saw my profile. Nowadays, though, AI CV screening and bots have kinda ruined it. 100+ people apply within seconds of a job being posted.
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@cafechatnoir@mastodon.social 2026-11-09 13:22
@stux@mstdn.social 10 years ago, someone I used to work with reached out to me, but there was no job posting.
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@ItsThatDeafGuy@beige.party 2026-11-09 14:12
@stux@mstdn.social LinkedIn is still a thing?!
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@mattmaison@mastodon.world 2026-11-09 14:19
@stux@mstdn.social Yes, multiple through networking and people finding me there.
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@mwyman@mastodon.social 2026-11-09 14:21
@stux@mstdn.social strangely enough, my architect ex-wife got her first local architect job after we moved US states via a headhunter reaching out on LinkedIn.
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@noodlemaz@mstdn.games 2026-11-09 14:29
@stux@mstdn.social once Now deleted
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@arratoon@beige.party 2026-11-09 14:32
@stux@mstdn.social @Remittancegirl@mstdn.social Yes, someone contacted me on there because they’d seen my name in the credits of a magazine and figured that was how to contact me. I ended up working for her for a bit.
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@MikeFromLFE@cupoftea.social 2026-11-09 14:35
@stux@mstdn.social My son is convinced that he got his current job through contacts he had on the site. This is on the basis that 'its who you know that matters'. He found the job searching and recruitment side of it hopeless though
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@rozeboosje@masto.ai 2026-11-09 14:38
@stux@mstdn.social I closed my LinkedIn account YEARs ago. Worthless site.
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@oddhack@mstdn.social 2026-11-09 16:13
@stux@mstdn.social I've received a lot of messages from recruiters on LI who are keyword-matching and whom I immediately block. The only actual use I have for LI is obscure: it's the only contact I have for a former social dance partner who mostly tried to erase her presence from the Internet.
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@zedaardv@mastodon.world 2026-11-09 16:34
@stux@mstdn.social yes. just a statistical fluke 'tho
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@cuirass_entertainment@mastodon.social 2026-11-09 17:19
@stux@mstdn.social I got several jobs through LinkedIn, way back when. It’s more of an AI cult social media site now than a professional info or employment space
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@Hellbent@sfba.social 2026-11-09 17:33
@stux@mstdn.social I have applied to and was hired for three jobs posted on LinkedIn. Granted, that was 10, 11, and 12 years ago. With 10 years in Product Leadership under my belt, I don't even get sorry, no thanks responses anymore. But, that could be my refusal to use AI to write my resume. I enjoy writing and like my 'voice'. I hate AI slop writing.
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@Rob_J@mastodon.social 2026-11-09 18:51
@stux@mstdn.social that depends, does it count if I just found the job through LinkedIn or does it only count if the application was done through LinkedIn?
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@bjn@mstdn.social 2026-11-09 19:02
@stux@mstdn.social Someone I knew from years before contacted me via LinkedIn and I did some mentoring for them. Apart from that, nope.