Anonymous wrote: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.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

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.

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.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

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.

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.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

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.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

Anonymous wrote: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.

Anonymous wrote:Just tell them you don't do social media. Stop freaking out.

Anonymous wrote:Linked In is malware. Every time it asks for access to my contacts, I say no, and then it continually suggests that I connect to people that are in my contacts with whom I have no other visible connection (e.g., my doctor, or a relative with a different name who lives in another state that is in another completely unrelated industry).

Anonymous wrote:Linked doesn’t have much ads, pop ups or pushed emails. What’s annoying about it? Other people use it to their advantage better than you?

Anonymous wrote:You have our resumes, what other info do you need? Why is LI ‘required’ by so many HR people, and why is it a ‘red flag’ if you don’t have a profile? LI is now extraordinarily invasive. There is too much info that needs to be put out there that makes it easy for scammers to steal your identity or try to phish/social engineer you or your bank. It’s also crazy how many permissions LI now asks for. Can we get rid of this platform already? It’s probably worse than Facebook and ruins everyone’s privacy.