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    24 days ago

    They should check LinkedIn before asking persons to come in for interviews if that’s their requirement. Save everyone some time

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    24 days ago

    In defense of the lady, it was a marketing position, the guy parody example is an engineer, they’re not the same.

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      Yeah her post is entirely reasonable, at least depending on the industry, e.g. in my industry LinkedIn is unfortunately where most leads get generated aside from conferences, so of you’re a senior marketing person in my industry then it’s genuinely a red flag if you don’t have an active LinkedIn profile. The post on engineering is satire that kinda misses the point.

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    “if he isn’t posting about how hard he’s working, is he even working at all?” is obviously satire

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    My crew are the most sought after talent in our little niche of the tech world. To my knowledge, not a single one of us posts on LinkedIn. The people that actually do the work don’t have time for bullshit and probably have multiple open offers to join other orgs at all times.

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        Oh, they should post furry yiff porn with the hashtags ThoughtLeadership. Add some human generated text about being a thought leader by posting outside the box and wonder why no one seems to be posting their favorite yiff porn.

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    If I could not post on LinkedIn more strongly I would. Maybe I should start hacking into accounts to delete their posts

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        23 days ago

        The other half are worse: people shouting nonsense at each other.

        Not even whimsical nonsense, just nonsense about the maximally efficient way to exchange your labor and/or morality for the idea of financial security.

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    How does sharing my thoughts and strategies with people I am competing for jobs with give me an edge over them?

    (I actually do advise my peers all the time but I want to know why these idiots think that)

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      Highly paid bullshit jobs are all about social perception in networks.

      The point is to post something that makes it appear as if you’re already ahead of the game, and to use as many buzz words as possible so that you will appear in searches, or someone remembers you knowing something about those words.

      It does not matter if the “strategy” makes any sense at all. It’s not like anyone reads it, or that anyone tries it out, or even if you know anything about it. All these posts with motivational and strategic wisdom are just “tags” for people trying to sell themselves.

      The people involved in those games rely on each other to support this self-induced value. It’s like “fake it till you make it”, with the twist that they never actually do anything. When they fail, they’ll hopefully have enough other people involved, so that they can only fail upwards.

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    Well, at least I have a spine and refuse to go with the flow. No Facebook, LinkedIn, Xitter or whatever that sewer is called these days and I’m just fine with that. Just a bit of Lemmy for some discussions and memes, but fuck having to share everything you do.

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    I work/worked with a few executives I look up to, none of them use linkedin. They all have an account as they must, but that’s it. Talking about e.g., SVP, CEO, CTO leading hundreds or thousands of people.

    I also know one that owns their own consulting firm, taking out a few millions of profit every year, they still have a picture from their previous job and never post, except job openings.

    I absolutely despise current linkedin, it used to be a platform to connect with colleagues and apply to jobs. Now it’s just one of the N+1 social medias where the algorithm can show you content by narcisstic people you don’t care about. It Freak me outTM that somebody could look at this dumpster fire and not understand what is people’s problem with it.

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      23 days ago

      it did let me find out who in my workplace is a nazi sympathizer, by allowing me to view who reposted pro-charlie-kirkk stuff

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      I knew a C-level who had a social media presence but the company just paid some media manager person to handle it. He had a linkedin, facebook, and a blog. It was all ghost written. He didn’t even read it.

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    This is the third “Jesus Christ” I’ve said out loud and I’ve only been on Lemmy for three minutes.

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    Social media that doesn’t provide me with a modicum of anonymity and privacy just isn’t for me. You’d think that would count for something when you’re in a tech position.

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    FYI, it takes time to delete yourself from LinkedIn. I think it took a month? Not sure anyone needs to know about this.