Finally deleted my LinkedIn account!

After putting my account into “hibernation” for the past few weeks, I finally closed it. But I’m still looking for work. Thankfully I can still find positions (SRE and software dev) by just going directly to the company’s site and finding a Jobs page.

Good luck to everyone else out there looking for work!

#privacy @privacy

  • haui@lemmy.giftedmc.com
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    9 months ago

    Went through a couple comments of both „still use it“ and „dont need it at all“.

    We need a fedi linkedin clone

    Its again totally obvious that we need a fediverse linkedin clone, especially geared towards work, with a full cv function, option to hide your personal data until you approve a future employer, ways like mastodon for companies to prove they are legit to even be able to see a persons personal data so they dont dox themselves to some rando.

    I cant do it on my own but willing to help

    I‘m unable to set this up so please take the idea and run with it. Probably just a mastodon fork tbh with specific features. If anyone feels like doing this and needs business knowledge from an entrepreneur/CEO perspective, lmk.

    Thank you for reading and have a good one!

    • onlinepersona@programming.devEnglish
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      9 months ago

      I agree that LinkedIn is shit, but I’m not sure it’ll be resolved by going fedi. IMO what would be more important is a better job posting board. LinkedIn job search sucks galactic balls. The “remote jobs” search option is a fucking joke. Keywords are so blatantly spoiled by SEO and LinkedIn refuses to clean it up.

      Not sure if a federated job search board would improve the situation though…

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      • haui@lemmy.giftedmc.com
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        9 months ago

        Its you again! Your signature always identifies you instantly.

        I agree that linkedin is shit. Any form of alternative would be good but honestly, I‘m not using any social media that isnt democratic anymore. So my only chance at it is making it democratic.

        Have a good one.

        • onlinepersona@programming.devEnglish
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          9 months ago

          Its you again! Your signature always identifies you instantly.

          😂 Thanks, I was hoping it would’ve caught on by now, but that’s fine.

          I‘m not using any social media that isnt democratic anymore

          Respect. LinkedIn shouldn’t have been social media, but they went ahead and did it. I too would like an alternative.

          You have a good one too 🙂

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    • RBG@discuss.tchncs.de
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      9 months ago

      Its been turning into Facebook for a while now. I used to have a relevant work feed, but more and more I have these feel good posts and even memes popping up.

      Oh, and its pretty toxic in content too. Had this post the other day where some woman director of some company posted how tough it was to lose her husband to some disease, how tough it is to take care of the kids alone, finishing with how it helps her to be engrossed in her work.

      Like half of that was about her work actually. A very very weird read.

      Another post on woman’s day celebrating the working women who open their laptop again (for work) when the kids are in bed.

      Such things, just ugh. And those gets lots of likes too.

      I used to see such things only in the linkedinlunatic subreddit , but now I see it my feed.

        • RBG@discuss.tchncs.de
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          9 months ago

          I think its OK if you are looking for a job, yes. Not fully minus the feeds really, because I used to also see a lot of people advertising jobs in th feeds or saying they are leaving their jobs and looking for something. That is drowned out slowly by those shitty posts I mentioned.