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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][youtube][quote=Anonymous]As an executive recruiter, we LOVE LinkedIn. It’s the primary research tool. If you are not on LinkedIn, we’re not finding you. If you are and it’s a bad profile, you will get dinged if you’re in a high level executive role because frankly it looks like you’re not with the times. Only boomers avoid LinkedIn.[/quote]

Because you are lazy. You recruit by having an easy website to search on, instead of networking, having professional contacts, going to conferences and recruiting in person. You just want to search LI and send out boilerplate messages. Problem is if you can do it, soon enough an AI bot can do it too. [/quote]

This is so stupid, and you so clearly have no understanding of how LinkedIn works, how recruiting works, and how AI works and is already working to find employees.

It is not used in all industries- I don’t think it is widely used to hire doctors, nurses, teachers and others. But in other industries - all tech jobs, all large companies, law firms, consulting, finance, etc - it is widely used precisely because it is a huge pool of people with all their relevant professional information out there. Now instead of hoping you’ve made friends with the right recruiter (who may only have connected with people from certain schools or socio-economic backgrounds or even races), you can be found by and you can find numerous companies and jobs. You don’t have to be on it - but in certain industries, you will really struggle to get a job without it. And if you’re thinking it is the company’s loss: not really! They have an enormous pool to fish in and they don’t need to waste time with someone who can’t be bothered to use a platform that has now been around for about 20 years. [/quote]

You're talking about the benefits to employees. That doesn't make the recruiter any less lazy. Click a few buttons and send a message. Of course you love it. Plus you can soft discriminate because most profiles will have a photo.[/quote]

+1 recruiters are scum[/quote]

Pretty sure the people I’ve helped place into their dream jobs don’t believe that. What an odd perspective to have on people who can actually help you land a great job?
Clearly you folk know nothing about retained executive search.

You people are crazy. Please… please do delete your LinkedIn so I have no hope of coming across you.

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"retained executive search" lol are we supposed to be impressed by your work jargon?[/quote]

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