I have deleted my LinkedIn Account after a long time of inactivity with occasionally logging in to “connect” with somebody.
I told 2 people about this, both of which were rather surprised and immediately asked me what I would do if im back to search for a new job. I got my current job through a normal job listing website and sent the application directly to the company, that was 8 years ago I don’t know why that would not still be viable, but their questions still made me unsure.
Has anybody on here found a job recently? Did LinkedIn help you in a big way, do you think it would not have been possible without? Am a web developer btw.
I mean of course it does help to spread your wings a little more. But on the other hand opening LinkedIn gives me instant depression, so i think you have to value in those things as well.
EDIT:
Or if you are HR would you see it as a negative if you received an application with no existent LinkedIn account?
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Never got a job through LinkedIn but ymmv. Depends on how you carry yourself I suppose.
I got a new job in the last year. I think it was through LinkedIn, but might’ve been through indeed. (software engineer going on his second decade)
No
A few years ago LinkedIn was a must have. Recruiters and sourcers would scour LinkedIn for their candidates.
Now it is just trash. Ghost and fake job opportunities, AI slop, and bots have turned LinkedIn to a cesspool.
I work with companies who pull LinkedIn data for B2B leads and 99% of them stopped because it is ineffective and a waste of time.
If you have a profile that’s great. If you don’t have one, there is no need to make one unless someone specifically tells you they need it.
You are fine.
its been pretty dang useless to me and I can’t say I got a job from it but all the same its the connections and references that are important to me. I would keep mine just so that I could do references for people I have worked with if they need it.
I could probably delete LinkedIn and still walk into several companies to get a job.
It is still good for me to have it out there as a public facing version of me.
None of my jobs ever came from LinkedIn.
Just got a whole bunch of shitty offers from them.
I’ve been contemplating deleting my LinkedIn for years. I personally do get recruiters reaching out to me occasionally for jobs.
My problem is that it’s just Facebook now. Got an email the other day from LinkedIn about LinkedIn games. Like what? I have self respect so I play real games.
I’m self employed now so my finger is on the trigger.
Indeed was way more useful for me than LinkedIn ever was.
Need? No, but it does make recruitment easier as people take LinkedIn profiles as a source of truth when it is so easy to lie about where you have worked.
Thats a fair point, I do wonder though how long it would take for company to realize though, cause afaik you can make shit up on linkedin as well. Not sure if the companies get notified about that and if they can revoke such a claim.
Just say you worked for some company that went bankrupt.
Yeah, I was a senior manager at Lehman Brothers from 2000 to 2008, trust me bro
… and it was your fault!
I got a message from an old employer asking me to remove their name from my current employment in LinkedIn because I haven’t updated it in like 5 years. That leads me to believe companies can not remove employment history from a profile.
Depending on the industry/role, companies do background checks or might ask for references from previous employers, so it’s fine unless you get caught
I think it depends on your industry.
I actually just got a new job. Went through the usual, job boards, linkedin, friends and family. Nothing worked for 3 months. Longest Ive ever been out of work.
what actually got me a job was a cold email I sent to a local company, explaining that I was new in the area and looking for work.
I picked that company to “cold call” simply because I had bought something of theirs in the past and remembered the name when I was learning the local maps.
At least in my industry the only people who have LinkedIn are marketing people and sales reps. Why the fuck would I ever want to join a social network full of those people when they waste enough of my time coming in to talk to me in person? Idk if someone I was interviewing showed me their LinkedIn I would be confused more than anything else so I think it depends on the industry.
I got my current job a few years back. I made an account thinking it would help. It was basically useless for finding a job. The folks on there that were hiring would all demand you engage with their posts (I guess as a way of increasing “influence”) but would not actually hire.
It is possible that prospective employers might look at your account during a job interview process which is why I have kept my account. But it did not help me find a job.
I technically have a LinkedIn account, but haven’t so much as visited it in nearly a decade. Everything on it is long out of date, save for my name. The listed home town and job history aren’t relevant to where I am and what I do today.
Despite that, I got a new job last year. Like you, I used a typical job-finding site… sort of. I searched on there, but didn’t find the job I have - rather, a recruiter for this company reached out to me. Not sure if that info is good news or bad news for you, but it worked out for me, even without an active LinkedIn page.
I pretty much only get work my accepting messages from recruiters on linked in. In 2018 might be the only time in the last 15 years I’ve applied to a job through a website, gotten an interview, and was accepted.
That said… I’m a technical lead without a 4 year degree in a field where pretty much everyone I work with from mid-developer on up has one. It wouldn’t surprise me if that hurts me specifically in applications other than through recruiters.
I’m also too old to go back and spend years getting a piece of paper that says I can do the job I’ve been doing for 30 years. So… I guess I’m just saying that my experience may not map well to people in a different stage of their career.
