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I had about 1000 connections and found my linkedin homepage completely useless as it wasn't showing me anything about the people I care about (mostly uni friend
by tfsh 2y ago
I had about 1000 connections and found my linkedin homepage completely useless as it wasn't showing me anything about the people I care about (mostly uni friends, colleagues).
I went through and whittled the list down to about 150 people I would either consider a friend or.close colleague.
My homepage is still useless as linkedin shows me random trending posts, so that effort was a complete waste of time.
It hadn't occured to me that recruiters would see less than n connections as a negative trait. I'd expect the opposite, someone with 1k connections (e.g) seems like someone who connects regardless.
- arjvik 2y agoI'm at the point where I'd rather recruiters who care about useless metrics like that skip over me. The true signal makes itself known amongst the noise of spam-all recruiters.
- anytime5704 2y agoYep, this is the same as people who tell you not to mark yourself “open to work” because it “makes you look desperate.” If that’s what some company cares about, then I’m glad they won’t message me.