I worked at LinkedIn for 3 years and here's what they don't tell you.

AshleyRosaworld

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I worked at LinkedIn for 3 years. Some things you should know.

Easy Apply is a black hole. One job post is like 800 applications. The recruiter filtered by Premium users and stopped reading after about 20

The "Open to Work" banner is bs as well, I heard it in internal meetings multiple times hiring managers saw it as a red flag but LinkedIn never told anyone this.

Most jobs were already filled internally before the post even went live. HR policy just required a public listing. This happened constantly.

Stop applying through LinkedIn. Start talking to people on it. Completely different outcomes. hope this helps!
 
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BlogPro said:
A few weeks ago, eren't you asking if you could use your middle name on LinkedIn, instead of your last name?

And now you've worked at LinkedIn for 3 years?

Come on, girl.
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Hi, as someone who hired uni interns on LinkedIn as a free workforce on stupid tasks we can agree that we disagree.

Easy apply is nice, you can filter applicants nicely and also check their profiles, etc. Of course if your profile is empty, or you have 0 connections, etc. then you have basically no chance.

Most jobs aren’t already filled in, some are of course, but not most of them…

I got around 30-50 applicants for each of my local ad postings, mostly in basic SEO like copywriting or social media management and similar.

Premium profile doesn’t matter that much…

My tip - don’t waste time on EEA remote jobs, those have hundreds of applicants and companies are mostly bullshit scams lol

Open to work is kinda cringe, that’s true
 
I am guessing you quoted the wrong message @Alis_ ?
 
AshleyRosaworld said:
I worked at LinkedIn for 3 years. Some things you should know.

Easy Apply is a black hole. One job post is like 800 applications. The recruiter filtered by Premium users and stopped reading after about 20

The "Open to Work" banner is bs as well, I heard it in internal meetings multiple times hiring managers saw it as a red flag but LinkedIn never told anyone this.

Most jobs were already filled internally before the post even went live. HR policy just required a public listing. This happened constantly.

Stop applying through LinkedIn. Start talking to people on it. Completely different outcomes. hope this helps!
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After working at Linkedin for 3 years , why you asked this question few days back ??

https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/c...-instead-of-my-last-name-on-linkedin.1816164/
 
BlogPro said:
A few weeks ago, eren't you asking if you could use your middle name on LinkedIn, instead of your last name?

And now you've worked at LinkedIn for 3 years?

Come on, girl.
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don't forget this is probably a random guy spamming garbage to reach 100 comments and upgrade his account,I doubt this is the girl from the profile pic haha
 
Venusaur said:
don't forget this is probably a random guy spamming garbage to reach 100 comments and upgrade his account,I doubt this is the girl from the profile pic haha
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Clearly, as there are no girls on the Internet.

This exact post, verbatim, has been doing the rounds of reddit/linkedin for about 2 weeks now.
 
BlogPro said:
I am guessing you quoted the wrong message @Alis_ ?
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yes I did :D wanted to quote "her" shitpost... sorry for misunderstanding :D I firstly wanted to reply to you, but decided to add something mid-writing and completely changed my message, but forgot to changed the quote
 
Venusaur said:
don't forget this is probably a random guy spamming garbage to reach 100 comments and upgrade his account,I doubt this is the girl from the profile pic haha
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He's definitely not the woman in the photo, he's just trying to take advantage of needy guys. This spammer also posted a few days ago, about some exams and grades he got and now he worked 3 years at linkedin. If I was a mod here I'd ban him asap.
 
oh, a brutal reality check, but your insights perfectly confirm why relying on automated job boards is a losing game compared to direct peer-to-peer networking. This is exactly why building actual rapport with internal decision-makers yields completely different outcomes than throwing a resume into a 1,000-applicant black hole
 
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