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The thing that especially infuriates me is recruiters in this article turning around and trying to throw LinkedIn under the bus.

No one likes the nightmare dystopia of a platform that is LinkedIn. The only reason most people I know have LinkedIn accounts in the first place is because HR types have outsourced so much of their job to LinkedIn that it's viewed as professional suicide to not have a LinkedIn profile with 100s of contacts in this industry.

Recruiters don't like the GenAI and Easy Apply features on LinkedIn, it makes their jobs more difficult? Then stop making LinkedIn a mandatory account for tech workers. You have NO ONE to blame but yourselves.

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What gets me is that they request a CV even though my whole work history is already on LI. My CV is just a reformatted LI profile. But then again, recruiters are mostly sociology, political science, or philosophy grads who chose an easy degree thinking they were clever and found themselves being used as a mop in the Victorian sweatshop that is the recruitment industry.

They require your cv for at least two reasons: 1) to figure out how serious you are, or do you expect they send a screenshot of your LinkedIn profile to their client? if you want to talk to their client, do your homework, if you can’t be bothered, well, will you be bothered when you join? 2) due diligence-are you who you say you are? is your cv in line with your LinkedIn, or are you just one of those AI generated clowns?

It would be interesting if they just went back to paper resumes and applications. That takes effort, only a little bit, but it takes effort.

And for the in-demand FAANG jobs: we only accept applicationa written in blackletter on vellum

I like linkedin. It got me my current job. I get a constant stream of recruiters looking for people in my field; if I want a new job I'm pretty sure I can just reply to a few of them and not have to actually apply at all.

Just don't read any of the nonsense that people post.

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