I have deleted my LinkedIn Account after a long time of inactivity with occasionally logging in to “connect” with somebody.
I told 2 people about this, both of which were rather surprised and immediately asked me what I would do if im back to search for a new job. I got my current job through a normal job listing website and sent the application directly to the company, that was 8 years ago I don’t know why that would not still be viable, but their questions still made me unsure.
Has anybody on here found a job recently? Did LinkedIn help you in a big way, do you think it would not have been possible without? Am a web developer btw.
I mean of course it does help to spread your wings a little more. But on the other hand opening LinkedIn gives me instant depression, so i think you have to value in those things as well.
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Or if you are HR would you see it as a negative if you received an application with no existent LinkedIn account?
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Currently looking for a job in around the same field, and I think LinkedIn is not as mandatory as people can make it sound like.
Most often offers are listed on different other platforms or directly on the company’s website. You’ll definitely miss on some offers but not all. It also depends on what type of company you are looking for, as I find that most big companies are LinkedIn only.
Overall, imo it may be more difficult depending on what you are looking for, but definitely doable
Yea, i think that is why i have deleted it as well. Already got a feeling that I dont have much interest in the kind of companies that would be linkedin only.
I do not have a LinkedIn and I recently got a job at a food shop. However, I don’t know about with developer jobs…
Need? No, but it does make recruitment easier as people take LinkedIn profiles as a source of truth when it is so easy to lie about where you have worked.
Thats a fair point, I do wonder though how long it would take for company to realize though, cause afaik you can make shit up on linkedin as well. Not sure if the companies get notified about that and if they can revoke such a claim.
Depending on the industry/role, companies do background checks or might ask for references from previous employers, so it’s fine unless you get caught
I got a message from an old employer asking me to remove their name from my current employment in LinkedIn because I haven’t updated it in like 5 years. That leads me to believe companies can not remove employment history from a profile.
Just say you worked for some company that went bankrupt.
… and it was your fault!
Yeah, I was a senior manager at Lehman Brothers from 2000 to 2008, trust me bro
Not nescessary, but formed in an application form yesterday that just asked for name, cv and linkedin. No motivation or anything. I don’t have much hope for that particular application, but it shows that it is a part of the general application process in some places.
For applications that have a required a LinkedIn url field, most of the time they will accept just “https://www.linkedin.com/“ as a valid url. I have never had a LinkedIn profile and have been called for an interview after doing that. Maybe it’s a standard template for some job application forms and/or the employer doesn’t care about it too much.
Why specifically that URL? I’ve never used the site, is it the template for a link to a real profile?
It’s the beginning of the url to any real LinkedIn profile, which I guess is all the application form validates for. It wouldn’t allow me to submit the application when I tried to enter a written explanation that I don’t use LinkedIn.
The more “corporate” the job is, the more the hiring team will expect a LinkedIn.
My last dev role was like that. My current role is one I found through a personal connection where the ‘interview’ was a chat over some lunch - and they wouldn’t give two hoots if I had a LinkedIn or not.
So yeah, it depends. If you want to play the corporate game, you have to play more by the corporate rules.
It depends on the field and where you are in your career. From my university, it seemed like the computer science and business people needed to be on LinkedIn, while the other sciences did not. It also becomes less important as you progress in your career, since there will be better ways to share your experience
The industry I graduated from, which I held a job for 2 years, exclusively advertises through LinkedIn.
The jobs I held for other two years or so, in retail, were hell, but I got them through Seek.
The job I got, in retail also, I got it dropping a resume in person at a shop.
I used to work in a different field altogether. Those jobs I got through word of mouth.
So yeah, it depends a lot on of what kind of job you are searching for.
None of my jobs ever came from LinkedIn.
Just got a whole bunch of shitty offers from them.
Depends on the country. I’m from Austria and got a job in IT via ams. You go there to get unemployment pay, but to receive it you have to apply to jobs. It’s one of the best things our government has made.
I technically have a LinkedIn account, but haven’t so much as visited it in nearly a decade. Everything on it is long out of date, save for my name. The listed home town and job history aren’t relevant to where I am and what I do today.
Despite that, I got a new job last year. Like you, I used a typical job-finding site… sort of. I searched on there, but didn’t find the job I have - rather, a recruiter for this company reached out to me. Not sure if that info is good news or bad news for you, but it worked out for me, even without an active LinkedIn page.
I got my current job a few years back. I made an account thinking it would help. It was basically useless for finding a job. The folks on there that were hiring would all demand you engage with their posts (I guess as a way of increasing “influence”) but would not actually hire.
It is possible that prospective employers might look at your account during a job interview process which is why I have kept my account. But it did not help me find a job.
Meanwhile, the Iranian, Palestinian and other death toll is rising and rising and rising.
You’re not wrong, but people’s material conditions don’t pause just because some horrible asshole is doing horrible shit. Still gotta pay for housing and to feed the family.
We’re allowed to discuss more than one thing at a time.
Yes, indeed we are. Especially if it helps to eradicate the evil horrible shits.
And here you are, commenting on social media, instead of doing something about it.
That really is one hell of an uninformed statement. Until very recently, here in the UK, you could be arrested and locked up for speaking out. Yet we’ve been doing it anyway.
Oh, so it’s okay for you to have reasons for doing things other than fighting the system, but nobody else gets that consideration? Here in the US, we can be summarily executed for speaking out, and we’re doing it anyway. Quit being insufferable.
What is your fucking point?
RELATIVITY is my fucking point. You did come across as a little hostile there, given the choice of asking a simple question,
As an American trying to make a career pivot I’ve been told LinkedIn is mandatory. I hate reading it and posting, but I still do it. It’s a fucking cesspool. I’ve been out of full time work for almost a year.
Like, necessary to just have one or necessary to post and interact with others? I’m fine with using it as a static page to basic info about myself but I will never engage with or create content for it.
Like necessary to post and interact. I’m bad at it and I really don’t like it. I’m not getting anywhere with it, but I don’t do it regularly either. I’m getting desperate though.
At least in my industry the only people who have LinkedIn are marketing people and sales reps. Why the fuck would I ever want to join a social network full of those people when they waste enough of my time coming in to talk to me in person? Idk if someone I was interviewing showed me their LinkedIn I would be confused more than anything else so I think it depends on the industry.
I’ve been contemplating deleting my LinkedIn for years. I personally do get recruiters reaching out to me occasionally for jobs.
My problem is that it’s just Facebook now. Got an email the other day from LinkedIn about LinkedIn games. Like what? I have self respect so I play real games.
I’m self employed now so my finger is on the trigger.
