LinkedIn is life
6mon 16d ago by lemmy.blahaj.zone/u/KyuubiNoKitsune in linkedinlunatics@sh.itjust.works from lemmy.blahaj.zone
They should check LinkedIn before asking persons to come in for interviews if that's their requirement. Save everyone some time
That sounds entirely too efficient for middle management.
In defense of the lady, it was a marketing position, the guy parody example is an engineer, they're not the same.
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.
Are these satire?
Top one is, bottom one not sure
Can't really ignore advice from a "director of demand generation".
That's a mouthful but I guess "director of convincing people to buy our shit products" is too on the nose.
yeah it's just b2b marketing. Source: I help trucking companies talk to manufacturers about the trucks and trucking services they can use to ship their goods, it's "demand generation."
"if he isn't posting about how hard he's working, is he even working at all?" is obviously satire
The entire response is satire
6 days a week...... Fuck this company, and fuck this idiot.
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.
Gonna post my fucking furry yiff porn on LinkedIn
Less shameful than the CEOs who go on there and spam AI-generated "Thought Leadership" slop.
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.
You've got manager material in you, son.
When the CEOs were talking about inflation, I don't think that's what they had in mind LMAO
If I could not post on LinkedIn more strongly I would. Maybe I should start hacking into accounts to delete their posts
Half these posts are just AI bots shouting nonsense at each other.
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.
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)
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.
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.
I work/worked with a few executives I look up to, none of them use linkedin. They all have an account as they must, but that’s it. Talking about e.g., SVP, CEO, CTO leading hundreds or thousands of people.
I also know one that owns their own consulting firm, taking out a few millions of profit every year, they still have a picture from their previous job and never post, except job openings.
I absolutely despise current linkedin, it used to be a platform to connect with colleagues and apply to jobs. Now it’s just one of the N+1 social medias where the algorithm can show you content by narcisstic people you don’t care about. It Freaks me outTM that somebody could look at this dumpster fire and not understand what is the problem with it.
it did let me find out who in my workplace is a nazi sympathizer, by allowing me to view who reposted pro-charlie-kirkk stuff
I knew a C-level who had a social media presence but the company just paid some media manager person to handle it. He had a linkedin, facebook, and a blog. It was all ghost written. He didn't even read it.
This is the third "Jesus Christ" I've said out loud and I've only been on Lemmy for three minutes.
First time?
They don't look at the .ml instances much I guess
What a weird way to say your company is probably garbage
That senior engineer dodged a bullet.
Top post is satirical, mocking the bottom one
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.
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.
...and then when you get there, they take your ID and passport. So odd. /s
I'm reasonably confident Saudi Arabia is not trying to human traffic 30+ software developers.
You, my friend, are welcome to roll those bones.
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.
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.
director of demand generation
You just gotta love those LinkedIn idiots... I am a protein rotation specialist, also known as a burger flipper at McDonald's
The only difference between that example and this woman is that the guy at McDonald's is doing actual work with actual results where this director of demand generation is a job that is entirely made up and doesn't do shit.
Any company having a demand generation director is a huge red flag that should be avoided like the plague
I have exactly one LinkedIn post I made recently after 12.5 years in my career as a software engineer. It was about supporting your local food banks during the government shutdown.
How many impressions did it get? Did it extend your professional network?
Did you also include a blurb about the shutdown being an opportunity for those affected to learn their new market segment to better develop their GTM strategy and increase their profitability? Or maybe you mentioned how you went to a food bank, but instead of handing out food you actually told the people in line about new ways for them to diversify their earnings potential and that by bringing a quarter over quarter increase in revenue they could be a sales driver that adds value to the team.
🤣, I dunno but my CEO visited my sister's LinkedIn(she's the director of a local food bank). I work for a really big company so kinda crazy my CEO saw my post and went to my sister's profile (I gave her a shout-out because I'm proud of what she does.)
That’s the real trick the lunatics don’t realize. If you post frequently it gets muted and added to the slop pile. If you almost never post social media (LinkedIn in this case) blasts that mother fucker far and wide in the hopes that it’ll give you a hit and have you coming back. I’m obviously in sales, which has a… well we make up like 95% of the LinkedIn lunatic posts. However for LinkedIn to be effective IMO it should have a farther reach. Rather than posting every few days like most of my colleagues I post like… once a quarter maybe. Usually just product announcements or talking about something I’m personally doing. Those posts do infinitely better than any of my cohorts slop posts. I really don’t get how they haven’t caught on, but sales isn’t known for having the highest IQ. 😅
Had a career as a lawyer for over 20 years and not once I posted anything on LinkedIn! Are these real people or paid trolls?
They are wannabe paid folks, and scammers.
Social media that doesn't provide me with a modicum of anonymity and privacy just isn't for me. You'd think that would count for something when you're in a tech position.
FYI, it takes time to delete yourself from LinkedIn. I think it took a month? Not sure anyone needs to know about this.
Unfortunately for me it's the best place to try and get a job nowadays.
It was the worst for me, I don't why I kept it so long. It was just people trying to sell me stuff or get me to hire them.
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.
The first response is in a satirical vein to the second (immediate below) one. The hiring for complex ML model is a dead giveaway.
Can we put these people under a giant glass dome and seal them off from the rest of humanity?
Don’t worry—they’re all assigned to B ark.
The thing is, it does seem to work. A friend of mine who is VP at a bit company told me that the easiest way to climb the corporate ladder is to keep posting on LinkedIn. I just can't bring myself to post drivel just to get noticed by the execs that are constantly scrolling there.
That sounds like a living hell.
Its all marketing language, the way people post there. Its nauseating.
Ah, 'marketing language', i.e. lies.
Yep, exactly.
You're going to pay that person's salary... Why would you want them giving their 'work' away for free on a platform you don't own?
Only fucking sycophants and frauds give a rats ass about linked it. It's the business equivalent of myspace
Idiots, absolute idiots
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???
Once upon a time I had a LinkedIn account and they were constantly lighting up my email inbox. I sent an email that just said stop fucking emailing me.
Received the message approximately 5 minutes later that my account had been deleted. Mission accomplished I guess?
She's right in that posting gives candidates an edge. LinkedIn ups your visibility if you post once or twice a week. Fucking hate making up some stupid shit just to keep my resume more available.
If a company is hiring engineers based off LinkedIn posts, that's not a company I'd be willing to work for.
I'm not into all that but I'd imagine it's less about the posts and more about being visible, seen more often.
My point stands. If you are hiring an engineer, social media has nothing to do with the job. If the company is worried about the social media presence of their engineers, you can guarantee that there's going to be all kinds of other corporate mismanagement going on from people who have no clue how to do any of the actual value-added work. Not an environment I'm willing to work in.
No no, again it's not so much about the social media itself it's being seen by recruiters. They don't have to give a shit about what or how often you're posting. It's about having your name pop up to a recruiter that could land you a job.
AI wrangler six days a week, hard pass!
Make the AI post to linkedin, two birds one stone.
Candix fit in both of your hands while you type this corpogratuity post?
Depends: side by side, or tip-to-tip?
Those are fast walking people with note pads.
I got tired of the spam and deleted my LinkedIn account last month
This has got to be a quip from The Circle or something...
"I willingly hand my company's employee roster over to a literal monopoly"
Fucking dumbass.