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My advice on how to make your LinkedIn experience not suck: 1) Do not let LinkedIn scan your contacts, your calendar, your anything. 2) Do not accept connecti
by snowwrestler 8y ago
My advice on how to make your LinkedIn experience not suck:
1) Do not let LinkedIn scan your contacts, your calendar, your anything.
2) Do not accept connections from people you have not actually worked with in some capacity.
3) Turn off all emails.
4) Turn off all app alerts.
Turning off alerts is my superpower for making any digital communications channel bearable, really. IMO I should only get alerts for messages that are at the level of seriously affecting career, family, life and limb, etc.
In terms of hearing from recruiters... it says where I work right on my LinkedIn profile. If they can't be bothered to reach out to me at work, how badly do they actually want to recruit me? I'm not interested in being one of 2,000 people receiving keyword-driven mass recruiting spam.
To build connections, I accept requests from people I've worked with, even if it was one project a while ago. I occasionally browse the "people you may know" screen in the phone app to see if there is anyone I want to add as a connection.