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I absolutely cannot understand this perspective. I open LinkedIn to add somebody to my network, contact somebody, or look for a job/hire somebody, and for those
by AmericanChopper 2y ago
I absolutely cannot understand this perspective. I open LinkedIn to add somebody to my network, contact somebody, or look for a job/hire somebody, and for those things it’s really good. I don’t make any LinkedIn content, I don’t consume any of it, I don't struggle to ignore it entirely, and I don’t miss out on anything by doing so. Where exactly does it need to improve?
- giamma 2y agoSame as you, but I cannot find a good configuration for the linkedin App to prevent it from sending me too many notifications. I get 5+ notifications per day related to "this message is trending...", "your contact posted this...", "you are invited to do that...." and buried between them, from time to time, contact invitations that are worth considering.
- AmericanChopper 2y agoYou can turn all that off. If managing that is too annoying, every time you get a notification you can select to turn that type of notification off. I was also annoyed by this, but I’ve managed to get it to be pretty quite now.
- bawolff 2y agoUsing just the website works well for me. Linkedin app is the last thing i am letting anywhere near my phone.
- IshKebab 2y agoI agree. Reading the fluff nonsense is totally optional.
- attendant3446 2y ago> look for a job > it’s really good It definitely is not. It probably has the most job listings for most markets, but the experience of looking for a job on LinkedIn is appalling. They recently killed the resume builder, which makes me think that job searching/hiring is a side feature of LinkedIn.
- AmericanChopper 2y agoThat probably says more about the market you’re in, or you as a candidate. Every time I’ve looked for a job on LinkedIn I’ve found one almost immediately, and the recruiters I know who most reliably have something for me I all met via LinkedIn.
- swores 2y agoNeither of your anecdotes is more than a single example, either one of you might be an unlucky exception or might represent 50% of users.
- attendant3446 2y agoThe only reason LinkedIn works as a job search site is because of the number of users they have. They do almost nothing to be a job search site. It's just another social network with a 'jobs' category for posts.
- AmericanChopper 2y agoThe number of users they have is _the_ reason they’re generally better than the competition. It’s a social networking site dedicated to finding jobs/employees for people. It has slightly better features then a lot of other job listing sites, but the main reason it’s better than the other ones (outside of certain niches), is that it has more job seekers and more job posters on it. Other sites will typically just have less jobs posted, less users, and marginally worse features. If you can’t find a job on LinkedIn, going to a slightly worse version of the same thing probably won’t be the change you’re looking for.
- guappa 2y agoBy default linkedin will send you emails when "one of your contacts posted something" or "someone opened your profile"; or even "someone wrote to you, open the website so you can read what they wrote". And basically if you don't open it for a few days it will send you some email to remind you it exists. They decided to keep people on it a-la facebook, rather than stick to what's supposed to do
- xnorswap 2y agoI had linkedIn email me to tell me "someone wrote to you". I opened it up and the "Message" turned out to be an advert for linkedIn premium.
- snatchpiesinger 2y agoI would appreciate if it didn't send notifications about me having unread notifications. And no, I can't turn this notification off separately.
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