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Don't. It makes you look desperate. Use some kind of other mechanism to broadcast if you must, but if you put that on your Linkedin profile pic it is not a good
by bentt 4y ago
Don't. It makes you look desperate. Use some kind of other mechanism to broadcast if you must, but if you put that on your Linkedin profile pic it is not a good look.
- WakoMan12 4y ago[dead]
- amflare 4y agoExactly this. It's like panhandling; it doesn't matter how many other people are out there on street corners, it's still a bad look and I'm still going to wonder how you can't at least hold down a job at Burger King.
- throwaway426079 4y agoI don't assume that flag indicates the person is jobless. The person working BK while looking for a white collar job might well use it.
- gabereiser 4y agoYou don't know how many talented people you passed up because of this bias. Almost painful to read. You have no idea what that person is going through yet you equate them to a line cook at BK? Wow.
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- bentt 4y agoIt's a tough question OP asked, because there are a lot of people out there really hurting over their work situation. My comment was not to indicate that people who are looking for employment are somehow lesser. It's really about the tactics for getting a job. Getting hired is about convincing someone to choose you. We all know that the reality of a person is endlessly complex, and many people who deserve jobs have a hard time getting hired. So the question was simple... does this tag on linkedin help or hurt? When you create a sense of availability it goes entirely against the feeling of scarcity. If you see an unopened loaf of bread on the sidewalk you're much less likely to take it home and make a sandwich out of it. We all know why. You wonder what's wrong with it. Don't act like that loaf of bread on the sidewalk. Act like the loaf on the shelf. Same loaf.
- bogwog 4y agoWhat words would you use to describe someone who looks down on others because they're actively looking for a job? The three that come to mind for me are: "cynical", "elitist", and "asshole"
- rTX5CMRXIfFG 4y agoPointing out that an action makes one look desperate is not the same thing as looking down on a person.
- bheadmaster 4y agoNo, but holding the very opinion that people who do X look desparate (to whom? it's a subjective statement) indicates elitism.
- bentt 4y agoAgain, I don't personally hold that opinion. But you have to play the game and get past the recruiters who may.
- bheadmaster 4y agoSo you don't think it looks desparate, but you assume it looks desparate to other people? Indeed, that's not elitism. Maybe just a projection of what you fear people would think about you if you posted it? By the same logic, does someone opening a Tinder account look desparate to potential partners?
- bentt 4y agoRight, the recruiters that would think such a thing are what you say. But they are the gatekeepers. Name call me all you want, it won't change that fact. But it feels good I bet!
- duxup 4y agoI makes it look like you enthusiastically want a job? As opposed to ? Only sorta want a job? It’s funny as there is so much talk about being “passionate about X” but here we don’t want to look very passionate.
- rTX5CMRXIfFG 4y agoYeah well passion is not the same thing as desperation to get just any job to pay the bills with.
- duxup 4y ago> as desperation to get just any job to pay the bills with I find that a strange thing to determine from what someone does with their linkedin profile ...
- rTX5CMRXIfFG 4y agoThen it would blow your mind to learn what recruiters determine when they look at your social media activity.