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As an aside, I'm looking for a job at the moment and linked-in is fucking terrible at the moment. I can't stand recruiters posting all their "forwards from gran

by drcross 10y ago

As an aside, I'm looking for a job at the moment and linked-in is fucking terrible at the moment. I can't stand recruiters posting all their "forwards from grandma" memes flooding my news feed and I don't know how to separate the wheat from the chaff.

walterbell 10y ago
One alternative: http://linkup.com http://linkup.com is an aggregator / search engine that only indexes jobs from employer sites, no job boards or other noise sources. For startups, try https://angel.co/jobs https://angel.co/jobs to connect directly with founders and hiring mgrs.
mkohlmyr 10y ago
I deleted my account a long time ago. It simply isn't useful to most people any more. LinkedIn is 1) a target for recruiters with a spray and pray strategy 2) a crm/lead gen tool for sales people The amount of spam (I work in email marketing tech, I know these emails work, but let's call a spade a spade) in my inbox went down considerably as a result.
- 0xmohit 10y ago
  Odd that the amount of spam reduced. I've seen instances where individuals weren't even able to delete their accounts. Sounds funny, but it goes like: (1) you delete your account, (2) you receive a message from LinkedIn, (3) you think that the account isn't deleted and login to delete. Voila, you nullified what you did in (1)! The following is true: https://twitter.com/darylginn/status/590664399041519617 https://twitter.com/darylginn/status/590664399041519617
  - mkohlmyr 10y ago
    Oh it was definitely a "process" deleting the account. But the sheer amount of emails they send is a travesty. I honestly can't believe they haven't hit the point of diminishing returns yet. I suppose because people view linked in as a must there are virtually no consequences for them. Unless people start deleting their accounts. I highly recommend it.
sctb 10y ago
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12253690 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12253690 and marked it off-topic.
fecak 10y ago
As a recruiter (who is highly critical of most of the recruiting industry), I don't think the issue of off-topic LinkedIn memes and stupidity are solely a problem with recruiters. The top post on LinkedIn almost every time I log in is a notification that someone in my network "liked" a post featuring an attractive woman. After that, a mix of memes, those "only a genius can solve this" nonsense, etc. You can unfollow people on LinkedIn just like Facebook. Upper-right hand corner of post should offer unfollow as a dropdown.

by drcross 10y ago

walterbell 10y ago

One alternative: http://linkup.com http://linkup.com is an aggregator / search engine that only indexes jobs from employer sites, no job boards or other noise sources. For startups, try https://angel.co/jobs https://angel.co/jobs to connect directly with founders and hiring mgrs.

mkohlmyr 10y ago

I deleted my account a long time ago. It simply isn't useful to most people any more. LinkedIn is 1) a target for recruiters with a spray and pray strategy 2) a crm/lead gen tool for sales people The amount of spam (I work in email marketing tech, I know these emails work, but let's call a spade a spade) in my inbox went down considerably as a result.

0xmohit 10y ago
Odd that the amount of spam reduced. I've seen instances where individuals weren't even able to delete their accounts. Sounds funny, but it goes like: (1) you delete your account, (2) you receive a message from LinkedIn, (3) you think that the account isn't deleted and login to delete. Voila, you nullified what you did in (1)! The following is true: https://twitter.com/darylginn/status/590664399041519617 https://twitter.com/darylginn/status/590664399041519617
- mkohlmyr 10y ago
  Oh it was definitely a "process" deleting the account. But the sheer amount of emails they send is a travesty. I honestly can't believe they haven't hit the point of diminishing returns yet. I suppose because people view linked in as a must there are virtually no consequences for them. Unless people start deleting their accounts. I highly recommend it.

sctb 10y ago

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12253690 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12253690 and marked it off-topic.

fecak 10y ago

As a recruiter (who is highly critical of most of the recruiting industry), I don't think the issue of off-topic LinkedIn memes and stupidity are solely a problem with recruiters. The top post on LinkedIn almost every time I log in is a notification that someone in my network "liked" a post featuring an attractive woman. After that, a mix of memes, those "only a genius can solve this" nonsense, etc. You can unfollow people on LinkedIn just like Facebook. Upper-right hand corner of post should offer unfollow as a dropdown.