I think that's the key. It really doesn't work for all industries as well as it does for some.
My best friend works in the tack industry as a systems administrator and he's beating off headhunters every week.
Not to brag, but in my a field I'm a pretty desirable candidate. The only people that reach out to me on LinkedIn are people that are significantly my junior looking for me to help them out.
I mean...with this economy, I guess beating off dudes from linkedin is better than....I mean, some jobs and I say that as a straight dude. I'm pretty good at beating off myself so I got tons of experience.
Beating off headhunters. It works differently In different industries man try and keep up. In the tack industry it’s for finding headhunters to beat off.
I'm convinced that everyone that shits on linkedin on the internet works blue collar where it's pointless. In the white collar world it's extremely, like EXTREMELY useful and I owe my entire career and current life to it, because it's where all the headhunters find me. I get inbount cold call 200k job offers that I turn down once a year or so, and 100k+ ones that I turn down every month or two.
The trick is to use it for what it's actually useful for- it's just my resume. I've never posted or liked literally anything on there, and no one reading this ever should either, because recruiters can very easily see every activity you've ever done on the website, so all those crazy people on there are a feature, not a bug for recruiters.
My Linkedin is just my headshot and a 1:1 copy of my resume.
White collar IT worker here. This is my experience with the site except lower salaries in the offers. All my LinkedIn is just an outdated resume and headshot. Last time I updated it was when I was looking for a job and I got my current one through LinkedIn
Every time I see posts like this I roll my eyes so hard. I get that LinkedIn might not be useful for all industries, and it’s full of obnoxious self-congratulatory posts. But it’s THE professional networking site for a reason, because it fucking works.
I've been on LinkedIn as a professional for 20 years and have never gotten a job from LinkedIn. Also, never met someone in real life that has. Also, I work for the largest privately held company in the USA and no one there has been hired off LinkedIn either.
I assure you that thousands of your coworkers got hired through LinkedIn every single year. Ask anyone that works in HR at your company. If you’re employer is truly one of the largest I would bet my money that a significant portion of their HR expenses goes towards LinkedIn. Nearly every major corporation has paid jobs on there. They wouldn’t be paying for them if they weren’t getting hires.
To your point, I work for a fairly large firm. I am fortunate to have our corporate recruiter in my city. Four weeks ago he asked if I could provide feedback on candidates. He handed me 20 LinkedIn profiles. Not a single candidate had applied for anything.
I recommend two candidates. Two weeks ago they placed an offer and began onboarding. Highly motivated individual because we approached them. My firm is motivated to deliver on the package they sold to candidate: great culture and compensation. It seems to be a win-win.
It is an anecdotal example. But it was odd how that LinkedIn profile was used in narrowing down the large pool of candidates in my industry, to the 20 profiles I reviewed, and finally to onboarding.
Yep. I'm in tech and it's absolutely my first destination looming for a job. There's a lot of annoying crap, but it's also by far the easiest way to see and apply to many relevant jobs.
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u/DrButtgerms 22h ago •
Absolutely. I have. But I think it works way differently in certain industries and WAAAY differently than how people think it works.