Does anyone else feel like LinkedIn....

[Lilliea]

feels like a bunch of people using ChatGPT to talk to each other? It's becoming really, really weird. Part of my role is networking so I post once or twice a week about latest developments in the industry, then engage in the comments. The responses are hilarious. Just classic AI talk. Not all, but a lot. Does anyone else fing it hard to engage when you know people are using a computer to respond?

It is the best way to find a job in my industry, but it is truly awful. The dreadful stories, the recruiters who use their latest holiday, accompanied by photo to talk about why the role they are hiring is amazing.

It sounds like shite.

Glad I've never been there.

The funniest to me is there is a recurring advertisement post where they have a perfectly nice picture of a human being and then they show the after picture where she looks weirdly droid like. And they think people will pay to make these changes for their LinkedIn pictures and it will lead to more job offers.

I tell you I miss the days of scouring the local papers job section on a Friday.

I only use it for job hunting.

Otherwise it's a load of SME making posts and 5 employees reposting and replies designed to boost it in the algorithm. Or long self congratulary posts from the LinkedIn equivalent of influencées.

It is a useful place to have my CV etc available tho - that & the job search is the only reason I keep it

To be fair on that one, its just the linkedin standard text. I recently updated something on mine and it asked if I wanted to share it to my feed. I said no because I can't be arsed with the notifications but if you say yes, that's what it posts.

While we're here - can anyone tell me how to get my profile picture back to normal and get rge "open to work" thing off?

I stopped using LinkedIn ages ago because it was becoming more and more of a platform for people to spout how amazingly talented they are.
Got so sick of it.

"So honoured to be asked to take part in this inspirational panel of sector leaders....."

You're there because your employer is sponsoring the conference, the "kick back" is a panel seat and no-one else wanted to do it, so STFU please.

LinkedIn used to be really good but now it's just evidence of why we cant have nice things .

Actually the saddest thing to me is people who pour out their hearts about how desperate they are for a job and have been looking for almost a year and are now feeling very down.

I absolutely empathise, but do wonder if it's a productive way to interest future employers and if they really want all that laid out bare forever.

The automatic ones says happy (at least now). The delighted ones usually wrote way morr than just the basic text. I wonder if it used to br delighted and now cjanged to happy or if it was just a trend

The Chat GPT-style posts I can handle, as people have said, virtually every post these days is made that way, so I just ignore them.

The most annoying part for me is how they've completely messed up the job search thing! It used to be really good, but now you can type in 'electrician', for example, and get 'dog walker' jobs! It's infuriating!

It used to be good! There's literally no other purpose to LinkedIn than for career progression, and they can't even get this right.

If you guys want to see real linkedin shitshow - Middle East... I have contacts in ME so sometimes get them and some ME promoted posts. The comments are often a barrage of click replies mixed with cv links and "consider me".
You could absolute just post a world "flower" and get 700 comments- "impressive" "great job" "see my CV" "engineer CV see pls" "amazing" "great achievement" "pls hire me for HR director position at your esteemed company"

World's dullest SM site .. even the people I know, I read what they have written and think WTF.. stop being an arse.

I see a very specialised job advertised where experience in UK regulation is essential, and in some remote backwater, and the number of ME and SA responses saying interested or similar is astounding. “Be one of the first 100 to apply to this job” when you can hand on heart name the three people in the field who would be remotely qualified and you’re wondering if recruitment had to post this rather than just go direct to those people.

It's so cringey. It's just bollocks.

I just did a (slightly insulting) flounce post on LinkedIn

I felt I’d recovered the part of my soul taken by being exposed to the gross disingenuous pointless shite on LinkedIn

im deleted

I can’t say I have noticed this. But I do some eye rolls at all the ‘proud to say’, ‘delighted to announce’ , ‘thrilled to say’…job moves/spoke at a conference / finished a course. And the ones who say they have left their job but can’t say where they are moving to so ‘watch this space.’ There was a guy in social media having a laugh at all the opening statements, quite funny.

I'm just starting my own business so do find it useful to keep links with people I network with, as I hope they'll use my services!

I don't post much, though. I mainly play the games on there.

Go to your profile, click on your photo, select 'edit frame' and choose the original setting.

I’m always amused when you know the amount of absolute bullshittery in someone’s LinkedIn.

Someone I worked with has a LinkedIn profile proclaiming themselves as a ‘thought leader’ and highly respected in their field etc.

In reality this man has barely had a decent thought in his life, never mind being a thought-leader. He’s a mediocre middle manager who job hops every 18 months when his incompetence in each role becomes apparent.

I suspended my profile a couple of weeks ago, just had enough of all the self-promotion and congratulatory fakery

I haven't been on since June and I work in Social Media!! It's become an awful place, first it was the UK election, then the riots, then the US election. I schedule my posts and run.

It absolutely is. I had over a million views on one like that during COVID and got a dozen interviews. You can remove the post later

Yup. I post a job based in an office in Glasgow and get 300 CVs from dudes in the Middle East.

No one I have ever worked for has ever looked at my LinkedIn profile before hiring me.

However it can give you a useful measure of some employers.

And colleagues.

In a recent role the CEO saw themselves very much as an entrepreneur and encouraged staff to use LinkedIn and to keep their profiles up to date (in company time). The idea being that it would raise his profile through the linking. Which it did seem to achieve.

My first day there he called me in and gave me a copy of a book he wrote. I ended up setting up a media room for him to record podcasts in. Which he then posted on ... LinkedIn.

The most important thing you need to know about LinkedIn is that it's now owned by Microsoft.