You HAD one week, three weeks ago. Fuck.
this post was submitted on 16 Nov 2025
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Fuck that, lean in! Generate a fake profile with ChatGPT. You’re not an IT drone, you got a Wharton MBA. You spent 10 years volunteering as a street sweeper for Doctors Without Borders in Port-au-Prince before you got your big break in forensic accounting. In your spare time you enjoy carving tiny canoes out of toothpicks and staging mock naval battles with the bugs you catch as an amateur entomologist. LLMs can’t make our lives better, but we sure as shit can make them worse.
My mom tells me that "You can't get a job without LinkedIn". I'm currently not looking for a job, but is this really true? Do I really need to surrender my dater to Big Daddy MegaShart so that I can put food on my family?
sigh yes
If you're in any sort of white collar job, not having a LinkedIn profile that is decent will make employers (specifically HR people) think you are a bot.
It's terrible. But you will have a much harder time getting a job without it.
Watch for this to change, almost overnight. Gen Z has different expectations and there's a huge anti-social-network movement building within it. It's very common for me to run into younger people now who don't have FB or Insta. Linkedin is next as it's so cringey and becoming less useful. 10, 15 years ago I could really use the platform to engage recruiters and land interviews. Now fit's a wasteland of influencers pumping out meaningless posts. There is no value there.
I want to agree with you but I doubt it. LinkedIn's value is generated by corporations, not it's users. So long as companies use it to vet people, it will be used.
It's the same reason why we still have applications. Recruiters hate them because they have to sort through hundreds of applications. Candidates hate them because they spend precious time updating their resume for the job post only to get buried under a bunch of AI slop.
The process exists because corporations want it.
It's been years since I got hired anywhere that even checked it. HR only cared about the exact data in the exact format their system wanted it, so they could compare fast. They're taking in like 1,000 apps for every job they post, so they need to be able to sort and filter down to the 3-5 employees they want to interview without having to do boring hand research.
I've been on hiring panels myself and don't bother because it's usually just a copy of their resume which I already have in front of me. I do not care about their opinions on the latest management book they read, unless it's important enough to bring up in the interview (sometimes it is!)
Guess this depends a lot on your location, field of work, and your years of experience.
Last two jobs I got because of linkedin connections contacting me through it. They never had my email/number but they did have my linkedin.
The job search functionality (and applying through linkedin) is shit and I just use it to see what's out there and was applying on through company websites directly or via email.
Stopped giving random recruiters my CV and details via linkedin chat years ago because I started suspecting that they are just bots with linkedin premium.
I'm planning to ditch linkedin soon. Already removed most of my details except for last and current job. It used to be helpful when I was at the beginning of my career but now I feel like I could possibly find a job the old fashion way via direct contacting (this isn't always available for every job but I honestly don't care where I work).
It helps to have one but you don't have to use it much. I've landed my highest paying positions through LinkedIn, or recruiters found me elsewhere but the listing was through LinkedIn. So I have an account that has general info filled in but I don't really touch it for anything.
I suppose it depends on the field. I got my job, which wasn't posted anywhere, through a recruiter on Linkedin, so it definately helps. But plenty in my field get a job without Linkedin.
Yes. Indeed is the only other one remotely useful. Do not shoot yourself in the foot, use linked in.
I wouldn't hire someone without one. It's like a resume, but a live, publicly verified one. If someone didn't have one I'd assume they are hiding something or lying about experience.
I'm adding this comment to the list of reasons I am thankful to not be in the job market.
Settings --> Data Protection --> Data for Generative AI Improvements. Toggle it off.
Thanks for the link!
Remember to change it only on your account but not mine.
cool.
it has my badge photo, my degrees, and my network connections.
I don't interact with anyone on there and simply use it as a digital Rolodex.
good luck training shit from me.
That's still useful data to train on.
Why is that bad tho? It just means colleagues and potential employers will learn about your qualifications
I won't go all "I've got nothing to hide so this isn't a problem" but...this is also within the realm of acceptable use for the product.
If I wanted to I'm free to close my account and never return, which I may do yet.
resisting AI can be handled in two ways; complaining and continued use, or full rejection of the product/project.
IMO full rejection is far more powerful because it impacts the shareholders perception of the product more than just simple complaints.
I had forgotten, thank you very much.
Glad I deleted my account.
I've been locked out of LinkedIn for almost a year, something happened to my damned account...I can't opt out or delete the cursed thing.
Good that I never had a reason to join.
The only use for LinkedIn is to promote links to your publicly available website (marketing for content marketing).
So I don't think this matters.
Thanks for the heads up!