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

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    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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        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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    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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    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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        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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    Although the first post is satire, I’ve had people non-ironically say similar to me about how important posting on LinkedIn is.

    Why??? Isn’t a good CV enough? Why do I need to turn into an influencer now?
    Fuck am I supposed to post? I’m gonna start sharing random FOSS news from my RSS feeds, is that enough???

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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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    He was stunned. Lol. These people… They are so far into the matrix, they cant see anything clearly anymore.

    I could write a lot about this topic and these people but we all know already.

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      The first response is in a satirical vein to the second (immediate below) one. The hiring for complex ML model is a dead giveaway.

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    I’ve never had a LinkedIn and I deleted my Facebook and Instagram years ago. I actually think it’s why I can’t get a new job in my field. I’m currently employed, get good feedback from my supervisors and peers, have tons of experience, and have good working relationships with the people I deal with outside my company, but most networking in my field is all done on social media and most jobs are posted on Facebook. I’ve been looking for a new job for months and have applied at multiple places and followed up and heard crickets, and yet I know people with the same exact job who were fired for cause and had a job the next week. The only job openings I’ve even found are places that coworkers with social media pointed me to, because they saw posts that the companies are hiring. I’m starting to wonder if companies are looking me up on social media, not finding me, and throwing me in the reject pile. The last thing I want to do is rejoin the metaverse, but I’m starting to think I’m wrecking my career by avoiding it. It’s so frustrating.

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      I have never posted anything on my LinkedIn account, I set up the account years ago when I believed it it would actually be beneficial, quickly realised it wouldn’t be, and abandoned it.

      I get recruiters chasing me all the time, everyone in the industry does.

      That’s not to say there are necessarily a lot of jobs, there may be, but the recruiters are so bad at their jobs that it’s hard to tell. They’re also trying to get me to move to another continent all the time. Why can’t Saudi Arabia just use their own people, I don’t get it.

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      I am surprised that most of the jobs for your industry are on Facebook. I don’t even know how to find job reqs on Facebook… I don’t actually know how to post on LinkedIn either though. But most of the job reqs I see that are a decent fit are on LinkedIn, and I’ve heard of a lot of the new start-ups in my industry from LinkedIn. … If you work in engineering for defense or space companies, I’d start with making a profile on LinkedIn.

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        My industry is weird (it’s in my post history, so I’ll just say it, it’s EMS). A lot of ambulance companies don’t have someone to actively maintain a website. They might have a website but it might be a year or two out of date. It’s easier and cheaper for a supervisor to make a “we’re hiring! Email me your info!” post on Facebook, especially when that’s where everyone is anyway and that’s how everyone else is doing it. It’s a very informal and very odd industry.

        We have to do so many hours of continuing education every year to maintain our certification and I have a co-worker who does the coolest trainings. I finally asked how he finds them because all I can ever find is the dryest, most boring classes. Of course the answer was Facebook. It’s all on Facebook. If you want to get into a new specialty, if you want a fun training, if you want to connect with providers who aren’t in your immediate circle, if you want to learn a new niche or find a company or a job across the country you need Facebook.

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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.