linkedin. as sad as a lunchtime strip club visit.

six months in, I refuse to look at linkedin posts at all. i know, it’s ironic that I keep posting links to my own rants there, but hey i’m doing it right. I send people somewhere else to read the rants. I bring them here, where no one is talking about their dead children or their suicidal husbands or their cancer diagnosis.

i’m sorry, but when did that become a thing? it was bad enough that linkedin was an echo chamber for people desperate for jobs, people trying to sell services and companies self-congratulating on a business breakfast well executed. at least i was able to just be professionally depressed, not personally.

and they are not short either, you would have thought talking about dead loved ones would be painful so they’d keep it short. no no. we’ll all go on that journey together, even though we don’t know any of them at all.

that aside, other than going straight to the job tab - well I say straight, but of course i have to play pinpoint, crossclimb and tango first (i don’t care for the other two) - there’s little there in terms of redeeming features. I was a complete mug for a couple of months and paid the 20-odd quid for premium. ha. ‘someone’ saw your profile. maybe. don’t quote us.

it’s still ok as a job board, but even that i take with a punch of salt. if you don’t know what a punch of salt is, watch donny brasco. in my whole career i never got a job from the linkedin job board. got a few interviews in the past, but even that’s dried up now. and easy apply is as efficient as throwing a cv out of your window.

I tried using the messaging feature on premium to chat recruiters up, then i realised the flaw. like everyone else, once you get a job you avoid linkedin like the plague unless it’s your job as a social media person to be there. so the person recruiting for the position won’t be looking at linkedin messages.

i know it may sound like biting the hand feeding me, but it got so bad that ‘so i don’t have to log in to linkedin’ became the second main reason for me to get a job asap. first one being feeding my kids.