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LinkedIn is a terrible solution if you expect everyone to use a single company for all their job needs. You can’t mandate everyone use a private website. I’ve
by dyauspitr 1y ago
LinkedIn is a terrible solution if you expect everyone to use a single company for all their job needs. You can’t mandate everyone use a private website.
I’ve had to submit my resume and fill out the same information again maybe 30% of the time. It’s definitely not every time.
- _mlbt 1y agoIt wouldn’t have to be mandatory. You’re always free to fill out the information yourself. I picked LinkedIn as an example because many (most?) job applicants have an account with them and it has most of the relevant information already, such as education, industry certifications, and job history.
- dyauspitr 1y agoA lot of people don’t want to show up in an internet search and having LinkedIn makes that a necessity. I’d rather we mandate companies have AI/auto parsers for a regular resume instead.
- _mlbt 1y agoWe’ll have to agree to disagree. As a recent job seeker, I had to have a LinkedIn profile, a resume, and fill out application forms all containing redundant information. The resume import functionality was extremely hit or miss…sometimes actually making more work for me because it incorrectly parsed my resume and erroneously filled the wrong information into the wrong fields. LinkedIn would serve as a definitive superset source of truth so that I would only need to keep it up to date versus the current status quo. Ideally perhaps some sort of standard API could emerge where you could choose your favorite provider of job application information.
- trod1234 1y agoQuite a number of people are sticking to State job boards where they require posters to submit that the information provided is accurate and correct under penalty of perjury. LinkedIn/Indeed are incentivized to keep ghost jobs up if those entities pay them money.