I made my profile look like my resume. And then tweaked it until the inmail I got was for jobs I wanted.
Part of it comes down to knowing how to write a good resume, the other part is gaming the keywords so your profile shows up in a good recruiter’s results.
I still responded to every single message though because I’m pretty sure engagement metrics makes you more/less visible to prospective recruiters.
Got my previous job because I was easy to find on LinkedIn. Got my current job on a different continent by contacting people through LinkedIn. Yes there is a lot of of bullshit but it can be pretty useful too.
Might just be my industry (Accounting/Finance), but LinkedIn has also been great for me.
The first job out of college is always the hardest. I spent months sending out hundreds of resumes for a dozen interviews. But each job since then, I’ve only had to send out two or three before I had an offer.
Oddly, I’m back working for the same company I started at. I could be making more by job-hopping, but I realized that once I’m making enough money, I would rather take a pay cut then have the increased stress, poor benefits, and longer hours.
I think LinkedIn works best for somewhat specialized workers with higher education, credentials or specialized experience. I too have found my last two jobs there. It was useless for years but I recently hit a threshold apparently and it suddenly has become a good resource.
Wisdom! I get bored after a couple of years, so I’m mostly chasing the adventure, so I have changed industries and country recently without earning more.
Not OP, but I use Google Jobs where they aggregate jobs from every job website. I have around 40 job keyword alerts and get the daily new jobs in a 50 km radius. The only bad thing about this are the duplicates from similar keywords, so I wrote a python script that creates an Excel file with unique jobs from the mails and the most important job information.
I had this problem myself and really don’t understand why this is so hard to find. My wife used a year ago and I wasn’t able to find this feature again, so I looked in her browser history and found it. There isn’t even a short accessible link, I can give you only this. Fill in your keywords, set the radius and in the lower left you can activate the alert. You need to be logged in with a gmail though to use the alerts.
Also it may not work on mobile and sometime I have problems with Firefox as well. If you want to be sure use Google Chrome on a desktop for this. I wouldn’t be surprised if this is another stab to Firefox users.
Who looks for jobs on Linked In.
Linked In is Facebook for people who want to return to full time office working.
I completely agree with your second line and despise it, but I have found my last several jobs on LinkedIn so it’s not totally worthless.
All I get is job agency spam on LinkedIn
Then your profile sucks. Mine did, too.
I made my profile look like my resume. And then tweaked it until the inmail I got was for jobs I wanted.
Part of it comes down to knowing how to write a good resume, the other part is gaming the keywords so your profile shows up in a good recruiter’s results.
I still responded to every single message though because I’m pretty sure engagement metrics makes you more/less visible to prospective recruiters.
Got my previous job because I was easy to find on LinkedIn. Got my current job on a different continent by contacting people through LinkedIn. Yes there is a lot of of bullshit but it can be pretty useful too.
Might just be my industry (Accounting/Finance), but LinkedIn has also been great for me.
The first job out of college is always the hardest. I spent months sending out hundreds of resumes for a dozen interviews. But each job since then, I’ve only had to send out two or three before I had an offer.
Oddly, I’m back working for the same company I started at. I could be making more by job-hopping, but I realized that once I’m making enough money, I would rather take a pay cut then have the increased stress, poor benefits, and longer hours.
I think LinkedIn works best for somewhat specialized workers with higher education, credentials or specialized experience. I too have found my last two jobs there. It was useless for years but I recently hit a threshold apparently and it suddenly has become a good resource.
Wisdom! I get bored after a couple of years, so I’m mostly chasing the adventure, so I have changed industries and country recently without earning more.
What job site do you think is the holy grail
Not OP, but I use Google Jobs where they aggregate jobs from every job website. I have around 40 job keyword alerts and get the daily new jobs in a 50 km radius. The only bad thing about this are the duplicates from similar keywords, so I wrote a python script that creates an Excel file with unique jobs from the mails and the most important job information.
This is impressive!
Having trouble finding info on this… Is this some sort of app? Not seeing info after doing web searches or checking the store and it sounds useful.
I had this problem myself and really don’t understand why this is so hard to find. My wife used a year ago and I wasn’t able to find this feature again, so I looked in her browser history and found it. There isn’t even a short accessible link, I can give you only this. Fill in your keywords, set the radius and in the lower left you can activate the alert. You need to be logged in with a gmail though to use the alerts.
Also it may not work on mobile and sometime I have problems with Firefox as well. If you want to be sure use Google Chrome on a desktop for this. I wouldn’t be surprised if this is another stab to Firefox users.
Google Jobs? Just Google “[job title] jobs near me” and a thing will pop up in the results.
I just did it and just got results from indeed, LinkedIn, etc. Maybe ublock treats it as an ad?
Maybe. Just checked mobile and it didn’t work so maybe desktop only too.
There isn’t one because there are no jobs. But it certainly isn’t Linked In.
There are no jobs!!
Have you checked Linkedin?
No, it’s garbage.
Smh
LinkedIn should be looking for jobs for you.
If you set up your profile correctly, LinkedIn will function as your agent and bring YOU job leads.
At least that’s how I used it.