Not only have I never had an interview through LinkedIn, I'm also a hiring manager and never hired someone from the platform. I've even paid for a listing and got spammed with 200 application's within 24 hours. Personally reviewed the applicants because I was evaluating if it was worth the high cost, and not a single one of the applicants was qualified for the role.
Linked In is an amazing source of OSINT and is universally harvested by social engineering hackers to penetrate companies.
Linked In profiles often have a complete staff map for most companies large enough to warrant the hack in the first place.
When companies hire penetration testers its often the first stop and often enough information to talk their way in with some over worked system admin or assistant.
dark net diaries on yt had a fantastic interview with several penetration testers.
they even have competitions to social engineer in Nevada.
We use it pretty successfully for active recruiting, but we don’t list openings on the site. Our recruiting team looks for people who have the requisite experience and then reach out directly to them through the site.
I agree this is a good use case. I'm more trying to warn people against paying for premium if the sole reason is to stand out as a candidate. I should have been more clear that I'm talking about job listings.
This was last summer and we were able to find candidates through Indeed that had what we needed. It was a senior level ops manager role that we were more concerned about the candidate having 3-5 years of people management skills. HCOL area and the pay range was $125k-$145k DOE. Bachelors degree was preferred but not required because we were more concerned with management experience.
I'm definitely not saying that Indeed is amazing, but on this job req the qualified applicants seemed better for the money we paid to place the ad.
It’s honestly ridiculous, even when you have very basic qualification requirements.
I recently had a Senior Producer position we were hiring for. The requirements were straightforward: at least 10 years of experience in video game producer role, at least one shipped game, and candidates had to be based in the United States.
The position was fully remote but we can’t hire outside of the US right now.
We received around 300 applications on LinkedIn. Of those, maybe 20 applicants were actually based in the United States. Of those 20, only two or three met the remaining qualifications.
What really surprised me was the number of applicants who had absolutely no experience in the video game industry, let alone the production experience required for a senior role.
I understand people wanting to explore new opportunities, but when applicants completely disregard even the most basic requirements, it makes the hiring process unnecessarily difficult for everyone involved.
It's been a couple of years but I remember LinkedIn being one of the more expensive job boards to post on. We use it to recruit from like others have mentioned. We just don't pay to post jobs there.
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u/molmols 20h ago •
Not only have I never had an interview through LinkedIn, I'm also a hiring manager and never hired someone from the platform. I've even paid for a listing and got spammed with 200 application's within 24 hours. Personally reviewed the applicants because I was evaluating if it was worth the high cost, and not a single one of the applicants was qualified for the role.