I analyzed the history of “Who is Hiring?” threads

Re:I analyzed the history of “Who is Hiring?” threads by gota on Monday July 15, 2019 @02:52PM (#20443910)

LinkedIn has become plagued by self-help-like stories and other self promoting, vague and meaningless write ups, in my experience.

It wasn't always like this. I used to have a reasonably cool feed centered towards technologies and news that are at least partly relevant to me and my industry. No more. It's all 'I gave a homeless person lunch and today they are the #1 duck breeder in Brazil' or some other nonsense.

I don't know when this started or if it is localized, but it renders the 'place to find useful information' aspect of social media completely void. There's no amount of reasonable curating effort that will save a news feed like that.

I try not to be too negative about things but without some serious change I'll use a static LinkedIn profile and visit it for a fraction of a second every week - to check for messages - and nothing more.

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Re:I analyzed the history of “Who is Hiring?” threads by humblepie on Monday July 15, 2019 @03:09PM (#20444077)

Those are called "broetry" posts. I believe LinkedIn implemented some changes to reduce exposure on these, but I still see them regularly.

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Re:I analyzed the history of “Who is Hiring?” threads by icxa on Monday July 15, 2019 @03:31PM (#20444298)

WHAT WOULD YOU DO

WITH 12 DOLLARS IN YOUR POCKET

AND A WIFE AND KID BACK HOME......

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Re:I analyzed the history of “Who is Hiring?” threads by Balgair on Monday July 15, 2019 @04:52PM (#20445155)

https://twitter.com/bestoflinkedin?lang=en

A good running collection of the 'best' of LI. Not a great running collection, but a good enough one.

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Re:I analyzed the history of “Who is Hiring?” threads by opportune on Monday July 15, 2019 @04:46PM (#20445083)

I agree. But since I am young I have a lot of people who are still trying to upgrade to a "real job" after having graduated in the last 1-2 years and these articles are disproportionately shared by those people.

Usually the articles are about how they sent 200 applications and it was all worth it to get that one acceptance, or are re-share spam about some manager taking a chance on a new hire or some shit. I haven't done any work into curating my feed since I rarely scroll through my feed anyway, but I think LinkedIn could do much better at putting industry-related news articles or blogs in there with less perseverance-porn

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Re:I analyzed the history of “Who is Hiring?” threads by sharadov on Monday July 15, 2019 @03:01PM (#20443990)

I just can't stand the humble brag posts!

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Re:I analyzed the history of “Who is Hiring?” threads by fnord123 on Monday July 15, 2019 @05:32PM (#20445485)

I know! As someone with 500+ contacts to high powered professionals I'm inundated with a huge amount of humble brag posts!

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Re:I analyzed the history of “Who is Hiring?” threads by seoulbran on Monday July 15, 2019 @05:36PM (#20445530)

*chuckle

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Re:I analyzed the history of “Who is Hiring?” threads by lacampbell on Monday July 15, 2019 @08:13PM (#20446470)

You must hate Hacker News then.

Well actually the bragging here often doesn't even get a veneer of humbleness.

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Re:I analyzed the history of “Who is Hiring?” threads by elcomet on Tuesday July 16, 2019 @06:44AM (#20448921)

I disagree. I don't see much bragging around here. And amazing people hang here, which are often very humble.

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Re:I analyzed the history of “Who is Hiring?” threads by sharadov on Wednesday July 17, 2019 @03:19PM (#20463043)

And if they brag, there is something to brag about.

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