'Garbling' : From the verb 'to garble'; reproduce a distorted message, sound or transmission. Example: Garbled speech.... (sounds a lot like Linkedin, actually)
Given how they made a system that punishes honesty and rewards dishonesty, I'm starting to wonder if we're the fools. I mean, if we just put up a fake LinkedIn profile, and then made a discord server to act as a fake HR department for past employment references, we'd be all set to get any job we want.
People are constantly warning about Facebook and Google 'stealing your data' but are somehow fine with one single website being the gatekeeper to the entire labour market.
When I was last looking foolr work 1 place in a year was actually smart enough to actually use skype call so they dont have to waste both of our times and money if it ends up Im not what they wanted. And I thought they were overly specific in what they already want the applicant to be experienced in and so it did save me a whole day of travel after all.
I remembered the first day I installed the linked In I got depressed as hell because I saw everyone there is a CEO even 14-15 years many kids are CEO of some company. Everyone has 100 projects. Everyone has 10-year experience and around 100 certificates. Until I saw a CEO posted that he got a job as a Car mechanic in Apple.
You might as well join them and make yourself the CEO of Coca Cola or something you like. You can even join my company. I'll hire you as my VP Chief Financial Officer. Just write it down on your profile. I'm the Chief Revenue Officer at Oracle
you see many people commenting everywhere telling you, you can start your own business and be your own CEO and stuff, its basically these guys who just do something and list themselves as the CEO or founder or whatever.
The shitty thing is, when you’re in certain fields, it’s really hard to get around having a LinkedIn. If you’re in marketing or sales and you don’t have one, they’ll hold it against you.
Not lately, due all these layoffs and all during lockdown. some HRs i know, who were posting motivational quotes every other day, went from "stay hungry, stay foolish", to, please help i got layed off. I am not fun of these people btw.
The funniest shit is those people with fancy clothes with titles like “IT-executive manager” or “IT operations expert”. And when you actually get to see their skills, they struggle sending mails through Outlook.
You have my respect, Josh! I am an HR person and *uck: LinkedIn is so fake. I don't know what's more fake: Instagram or LinkedIn. I would equalize them for sure.
It's the employer's responsibility to do their due diligence and verify an employee's work history, background check, etc.., not LinkedIn :). If LinkedIn is your only source when hiring someone, you might need to get fired :).
The only offers I've ever got on linkedin were to teach English in China. I looked it up, the recruiter gets ~25% of your salary. That about sums up linkedin
To confirm for everyone seeing this, recruiters don't get 25% of your salary. They charge companies 25% of your first year salary to find someone suitable for the job. You get paid 100%, the company pays 125%, the recruiter gets 25%.
True, I noticed these after being on Linked for years and while I wasn't active per say I did notice all of these inconsistencies. It's why deleted my account. The work gap problem...PREACH Its such a messy piece of bs and its true; in 2019 that's like death sentence. I honestly see where being your own brand on the internet is the antithesis of corporate bs. My dude Joshua over here being a such a whistle blower that I worry about his well being. (Knock on wood) Corporate, society, The Man don't like it when someone educates the masses on their bull. -Much respect and best wishes
Having a 2 to 3 month job gap instantly shot me from graphic designer to wal mart employee. Seriously not a joke. My portfoilo did nothing because no one ever got to the point of asking to see it. I ended up at walmart only after mcdonalds deemed me "an overqualified flight risk". They said "you'll have a job soon with your skillset." To which i replied "well I've done over 50 applications, am broke and unemployed. How can i be a flight risk when i will be needing you to earn a living?" Still no job. It's so degrading to have skills and talents you hone and demonstrate only to be practically begging for a min wage job. Unfortunately that has become commonplace. Many days I have hummed to myself "oh I ain't gonna work on Maggie's farm no more"
I know this is two years old but kiddo.... don't you know how to lie? I have gaps in my work history and I always had consecutive jobs on my resume. Nobody ever questioned it or even checked. Geez...
@@Ranteray what do you mean what kind of jobs? You work in job A from Jan to Sep - in real life, your next job started in Feb next year. Just extended your working period to February on your resume. In
I always thought about how bad linkedin might actually be for me, causing premature biases from Hiring managers. It hasn't helped me much thus far, other than connect me with pretentious recruiters. When I applied to current job, my most recent job in my targeted resume was different from that in my linkedin profile. So, when I saw that my now supervisor looked up my profile immediately after my interview, it gave me major anxiety that they would think I'm a liar. I eventually got the job. Now that I'm looking for a change and will have to tweak my current role title to get into a new industry, I'll probably end up deactivating or hiding my linkedin profile to avoid having to constrain myself while editing my new resume.
I’m 61 and my wife is 54. I’ve gotten job offers from LinkedIn even recently, several high paying. So they’re out there (I do have an MBA, PMP and a few other certs but my age apparently wasn’t a factor). My wife, after a 10 month lapse with work, her idea, and she just got a decent paying (15% more than last position) management job working for a Space Force contractor. She does have 2 Masters Degrees but it was her confidence that landed her the job.
I endorse this man in his programming, A.I, and electrical engineering skills. We used to work together at Google when he was the CEO and I was the VP of Marketing. See how stupid that sounds? That's basically LinkedIn but with real sounding names and pictures that haven't been verified to even exist.
The joke with my developer/IT friends is how the sleazy HR peeps use LinkedIn to pick up people. They once told me about this guy that would literally check out girls, start talking to them, added them to their "network" with the promise of a maybe job, then took them out to coffee. Worst part? The guy's modus operandi did work.
Thats genius. Sleazy as fuck, yea, but genius. Although there is some sense to it. Dating sites are incentivised to not find you someone you would stay with. If they did find you someone then you would stop using it. Similarly linkedin probably wont get you a good job, only a lot of good job prospects. Its a place for hr to feel like they are usefull and people to feel like they have a lot of potential for networking but in reality it is all fake.
@@coopergates9680 Hinge is certainly a con for that reason. Not to mention their entire system is flawed. You can see who likes you without matching them. Therefore many people just sit there and wait for the likes to come in so they can pick and choose from a list of people who they know find them attractive already, instead of scrolling through people they haven't gotten a like from so you can match more authentically. As you can tell, this leads to a very large decrease in user interactions for the section of the app meant to find and like people, and in turn that lowers "useful" (liking someone) user interactions on the app in its entirety. This also means that the people who wait for the likes to roll in are also seeing a decrease in their likes over time. It's a lose-lose situation. People are surely deleting Hinge, but it's not because they're finding a match.
Mr. Fluke and I go way back so I can rightfully comment on his leadership skills. In fact, he is such a great leader he became CEO of Facebook 10 years before Mark even had the idea. Mr. Fluke, kindly return the favour. I'll go make something up now so you can endorse it.
I'd go as far as to assume you either have no experience on the profile, or it's written like poorly. I consider LinkedIn to be absolutely great for job hunting. I've had dozens of job offers. Not sure why Josh has this bad of an opinion over it
Bogdan Ghiran no, I get a bunch of offers from recruiters on LinkedIn I barely hear back when I apply directly to companies through LinkedIn. And yeah josh is right about LinkedIn
I have companies reaching out to me directly on LinkedIn very often, of course there are recruiters too, but I normally ignore them. It's also a great way to make professional connections since you can find and connect to people with similar experience. The platform is as useful as you make it.
LinkedIn is a joke. I never had one, yet every person I know want me to have it. Why? It's just another Facebook... No, I'll pass. Edit: this video is referred to on Reddit on a discussion
The last time I updated my LinkedIn profile was five years ago! I am approaching my forties, and to tell the truth to the young folks out there, you're revealing too much information about yourself on social media, especially LinkedIn (yes it's a social media too!) whither inadvertently or on purpose thinking this is the norm! Life didn't use to be like this, there was something called PRIVACY!
It is sad that this is pretty much the only youtube video which tells the truth about LinkedIn. Since becoming a data scientist I have become more aware of my data. Youre also right as photos and dates on LinkedIn can give away your protected characteristics which should not be part of the job application process. If a company requests me to get LinkedIn then I withdraw the application as they have no care for my privacy. I also refuse to send applications to companies which require me to fill out another application on their website (including address and graduation date) as well as a my full cv/cover letter. If I am treated as just a number before even applying, then what would it be like to work with them? I also don't like how tech companies post pictures and job titles of their employees on their website. Privacy is so important.
I'd love to see another video focused exclusively on job gaps and how it negatively affects looking for employment (I'm going through that situation right now!).
YOU GAVE SOMEONE A RAISE?! I'm out here grinding for my novelty pens and snickers bars, not some 'money' corporate really don't know how to win their employees over jeez
My favorite is people who list Wharton or Harvard under the education section. If you truly matriculated you would 100% put the name of the degree you obtained like MS, MBA etc. A bunch of people don’t list their degrees. It’s unbelievable. They only took an evening class at top schools and claim they are “from” top schools. If degrees even matter either list them with 100% accuracy or leave them out. LinkedIn truly does not hold people accountable except it’s great showing gaps (which for some reason is a greater sin than lying about other things on the resume)
Honestly LinkedIn is been really good for me to find jobs. The fact that I don't have to apply to anything and get offers every single week just because I wrote "web developer" on LinkedIn is quite amazing.
@Peter Mortensen Yes, there were actual jobs for the most parts. I found many jobs this way. I had to turn a lot of them down because I can only work so many jobs ahah :P I posted that I was available for a new web dev position, got 70 calls in less than 2 days. I went to every single interview that was proposed to me, took me 2 weeks to do that. Then got plenty of offers.
Linkedin: Its like an online car dealership full of desperate salesman swarming you with their offers except on Linkedin it's some kind of Life-Coaches, VC hunters, and Real Estate agents.
I also noticed that you can't deactivate your LinkedIn profile either, you can only delete it entirely. I wanted to shut mine off temporarily but the only option is to scrap all your connections etc and start over from scratch if you rejoin. Sucks man, so deleted it anyway 😂
Holy crap! I've been telling people for some time that while selling our data, in breech of contract, to each other, firms would also begin to claim "trading" our data is not "selling" it. Right, again.
Never be afraid and suffer no guilt. It won't be the end of the world. In fact I think your life will improve if you delete LinkedIn as well as Facebook.
"Nobody actually uses LinkedIn unless you're looking for a job." Not true. When I visit offices of recruiting agencies, all I see are just rows and rows of open LinkedIn windows.
@Jerry Upshaw haha the endorsements feature is kind of a "I'll scratch your back if you scratch mine" kind of deal. But so is everything in life. You get exactly what you put into LinkedIn.
omg you said the TRUTH about what I was thinking about last few months, I never got hired via LinkedIn, all the jobs interviews that I went to were for shitty jobs or for new businesses who have no idea how to function a business, it is full of shit, I'm using LinkedIn to rant about some companies/ employers (anonymously) who violated labor law, or discriminated people, Linkedin is a joke
Great video. Linkedin - like Facebook - is SUPER CRAP. May their hard drives fail and their executives follow-through into their underpants after farting.
Just wondering, has anyone actually gotten a job using LinkedIn? I have been applying for a lot of jobs lately and I don't think I have ever even gotten an interview from an employer at LinkedIn. All my callbacks and interviews have come from either Indeed posts (being careful to avoid fake-sounding or low-quality listings) or by applying directly on a company site.
Job gaps aren't a deal breaker anymore. Have taken a handful of breaks just for the sake of it and it hasn't ever been an issue. Make up a reason if you have to, but honestly if your skills are up-to-date and in line with the position nobody is going to care. I just say I took a break to recharge in between roles and focus on health/personal development.
They don't care about job gaps at all if you have an interesting resume. I had a hard time at the beginning because mine was really mainstream but I changed it over time and that make me land a job in Artificial Intelligence without an engineering degree
Linked In is garbage. Years ago, a guy called me back for a job I submitted for and said "You don't have a linked in account". I said "that's correct". He said "why". I told him "If me getting a job interview is based on my linked in profile and not my skill set and job experience as outlined on my resume it's more than likely not a company I would do work for". Needless to say he was not happy with me saying that.
Unfortunately, the reality of the situation is that if you don't add your Linkedin profile to be judged, you're instantly disqualified from the position. So it's either you get judged in hopes of them liking you or you're just disqualified.
But LinkedIn wasn't around 20 years ago. Are you saying you purposely uploaded a 20-year out-of-date resume? You have had no employment in the past 20 years?
I guess we can say the same thing about the actual Resume. You can write anything you want. I think that’s why the companies do the background checks and require you to write prior supervisor’s numbers to verify your employment but I have to say working at 5-9 job does make me grieving at the end. I think linked-in is really based on trust system because, as you mentioned in the video, it brings a different crowd of people. It’d be foolish to be dishonest if you really want a job
A few years ago a collegemate told me that I should have a LinkedIn account to help me get a job after graduation. 2019, still no LinkedIn account. I'm confident in eventually getting a desired position without some free social media that I don't want at all.
Everyone keeps telling you to obsess over the small things, about having a LinkedIn, that every word on your CV shows your value, how to get a professional photo and so on. In reality they'll mostly look at your qualifications and experience and that's it. Some companies will care, but in the end most people will just pick the best candidate when it comes to qualifications.
your right. i remember being told in school not to put a photo on your cv for these reasons but now everyone has linkedIn which gives all this stuff away
I use it a lot and I have a great job. I like to look at people's career trajectory. What they did to get where they are. I get ideas from people's backgrounds...sometimes things I would have never thought or known about on my own searching. It's a great tool...not everyone is lying on there, lots of normal people who just put what they are doing there and its the straight truth.
I was so far down the corporate hole, I actually had Linkedin premium. When I stopped, they started to harass me to get back on the premium. Reminded me of that other "network" platform Internations where if you quit their paid membership, you'll face the fury of their "membership team".
I never received from my friends or coworkers any pluses or good comments on my LinkedIn, although I had written good comments and recommendations to them. My coworkers refuse to so, because of jealousy and rivalry. In Linkedin we are not friends, we are rivels. No one will give you good references from your bosses and colleagues.
@Joshua Fluke People do check their linked in messages. Not as often as any other media but they do. My method to get information about any company or any job is to find an employee in the role on LinkedIn and contact him. Usually they answer my questions because they hope to forward my candidature to HR so they get a bonus.
**UPDATE** - I have been banned from Linkedin.
What rhymes with Marble-ing?
Gargling deez nuts. Got'em.
Guaranteed to increase your salary.
😘
Got eeeem
'Garbling' :
From the verb 'to garble'; reproduce a distorted message, sound or transmission.
Example: Garbled speech.... (sounds a lot like Linkedin, actually)
May I have a job master?
Great video, totally agree with you 110% but what are people supposed to use if not LinkedIn
Truly inspiring. I became ex google ceo and ex facebook engineer overnight, thanks Josh
Bless up
I'm actually an ex-google and ex-facebook tech lead as well. Glad to meet one of mine out here on youtube.
I sometimes think the TechLead is full of shit
Given how they made a system that punishes honesty and rewards dishonesty, I'm starting to wonder if we're the fools.
I mean, if we just put up a fake LinkedIn profile, and then made a discord server to act as a fake HR department for past employment references, we'd be all set to get any job we want.
I became dishonest overnight, you mean.
A job gap means that you're a slave who has been outside the plantation and you might start sharing ideas of freedom with the other slaves.
So _that's_ why they don't like them. Thanks, I'll have to remember that.
It's really hard to play the part of slave who is drinking the koolaid. I'm needing a break to get away. Have hardly any gaps in the last 7 years.
I needed this laugh bud thank you
try that in your next interview, it's a great sell of.
@@oourdumb agree.
People are constantly warning about Facebook and Google 'stealing your data' but are somehow fine with one single website being the gatekeeper to the entire labour market.
100% agree with you.
Couldn't have been put better.
i wouldnt call it the whole labour market
Linked In literally only exists so HR people can justify their jobs. It's also made recruiters so incredibly lazy and bad at their job
Really. Really. Really fucking bad at their jobs.
They would be bad at their job without LinkedIn.
I also love how everyone invent their job title on this site lol
When I was last looking foolr work 1 place in a year was actually smart enough to actually use skype call so they dont have to waste both of our times and money if it ends up Im not what they wanted. And I thought they were overly specific in what they already want the applicant to be experienced in and so it did save me a whole day of travel after all.
They were always bad at It.
I remembered the first day I installed the linked In I got depressed as hell because I saw everyone there is a CEO even 14-15 years many kids are CEO of some company. Everyone has 100 projects. Everyone has 10-year experience and around 100 certificates.
Until
I saw a CEO posted that he got a job as a Car mechanic in Apple.
You might as well join them and make yourself the CEO of Coca Cola or something you like. You can even join my company. I'll hire you as my VP Chief Financial Officer. Just write it down on your profile. I'm the Chief Revenue Officer at Oracle
Ironically there must've been mechanics at Apple when they were working on a self driving car for a bit before dropping the project
you see many people commenting everywhere telling you, you can start your own business and be your own CEO and stuff, its basically these guys who just do something and list themselves as the CEO or founder or whatever.
So true Haha, the same for me.
you shouldnt feel insecure about it
Thanks to linkedin I am now the CEO of the internet
They ban you but yet still keep 3 pages of accounts with names that say LinkedIn Sucks. Shows what garbage they are.
If almost nobody knows about them, it isn't worth the time banning them. Only the "revolution" leaders get punished.
The shitty thing is, when you’re in certain fields, it’s really hard to get around having a LinkedIn. If you’re in marketing or sales and you don’t have one, they’ll hold it against you.
LinkedIn is like heaven: Everybody is perfectly happy.
like all other social media
Not lately, due all these layoffs and all during lockdown. some HRs i know, who were posting motivational quotes every other day, went from "stay hungry, stay foolish", to, please help i got layed off. I am not fun of these people btw.
@@eddielookingbeautifulbravo8 except reddit
I know people who are nearly retarded and on linkedin they seems to be genius.
@@enstrop it takes a genius to understand a genius
The funniest shit is those people with fancy clothes with titles like “IT-executive manager” or “IT operations expert”. And when you actually get to see their skills, they struggle sending mails through Outlook.
Hahahahahahah
ahahahahahahahahah
"I have a certification in certifying things" - That was nice.
You have my respect, Josh! I am an HR person and *uck: LinkedIn is so fake. I don't know what's more fake: Instagram or LinkedIn. I would equalize them for sure.
So true. LinkedIn and Instagram are equally disturbing
It's the employer's responsibility to do their due diligence and verify an employee's work history, background check, etc.., not LinkedIn :). If LinkedIn is your only source when hiring someone, you might need to get fired :).
Exactly
omg, I never imagined that I've been watching videos of the CEO of Facebook, Google, Microsoft and etc.
OMG. I am gonna piss my pants right now.
I've deleted everything years ago. Only platforms I have an account right now is YT and Twitter using fake data ofc.
It's insane that even a 3 month job gap seems to raise alarms
Yeah. I've taken 3-6 months off multiple times. Just to remodel my home, etc. Difficult finding a job if you're not 💯% committed to the hamster wheel.
God forbid a woman (gasp!) have a baby and take 3 months off.
I didn't work for 20 years, would that raise any concerns? I'm doing pretty well right now self-employed making $40/hr doing full time gig work.
Why do job gaps even matter?
@@MaharlikaAWA it means that something is deeply wrong with you!!! 🤣
Job gap discrimination. Make it a thing.
The only offers I've ever got on linkedin were to teach English in China. I looked it up, the recruiter gets ~25% of your salary. That about sums up linkedin
To confirm for everyone seeing this, recruiters don't get 25% of your salary. They charge companies 25% of your first year salary to find someone suitable for the job. You get paid 100%, the company pays 125%, the recruiter gets 25%.
@@13redlion13 Which straight up destroys their connection with the capable recruiter. Its not a smart thing to do when you own a big business.
True, I noticed these after being on Linked for years and while I wasn't active per say I did notice all of these inconsistencies. It's why deleted my account.
The work gap problem...PREACH Its such a messy piece of bs and its true; in 2019 that's like death sentence. I honestly see where being your own brand on the internet is the antithesis of corporate bs.
My dude Joshua over here being a such a whistle blower that I worry about his well being. (Knock on wood) Corporate, society, The Man don't like it when someone educates the masses on their bull.
-Much respect and best wishes
Having a 2 to 3 month job gap instantly shot me from graphic designer to wal mart employee. Seriously not a joke. My portfoilo did nothing because no one ever got to the point of asking to see it. I ended up at walmart only after mcdonalds deemed me "an overqualified flight risk". They said "you'll have a job soon with your skillset." To which i replied "well I've done over 50 applications, am broke and unemployed. How can i be a flight risk when i will be needing you to earn a living?" Still no job. It's so degrading to have skills and talents you hone and demonstrate only to be practically begging for a min wage job. Unfortunately that has become commonplace. Many days I have hummed to myself "oh I ain't gonna work on Maggie's farm no more"
I know this is two years old but kiddo.... don't you know how to lie?
I have gaps in my work history and I always had consecutive jobs on my resume. Nobody ever questioned it or even checked.
Geez...
@@cheshirecat2641 what kind of jobs do you mention in the gaps? could you give me some examples, please?
@@Ranteray what do you mean what kind of jobs?
You work in job A from Jan to Sep - in real life, your next job started in Feb next year. Just extended your working period to February on your resume.
In
@@cheshirecat2641 ah I understand now.. you just extend it.. thanks..
I always thought about how bad linkedin might actually be for me, causing premature biases from Hiring managers. It hasn't helped me much thus far, other than connect me with pretentious recruiters. When I applied to current job, my most recent job in my targeted resume was different from that in my linkedin profile. So, when I saw that my now supervisor looked up my profile immediately after my interview, it gave me major anxiety that they would think I'm a liar. I eventually got the job. Now that I'm looking for a change and will have to tweak my current role title to get into a new industry, I'll probably end up deactivating or hiding my linkedin profile to avoid having to constrain myself while editing my new resume.
LinkedIn for businesses is like what Instagram is for Influencers.
It's the same fake smiles and the same scetchy offerings ngl
I’m 61 and my wife is 54. I’ve gotten job offers from LinkedIn even recently, several high paying. So they’re out there (I do have an MBA, PMP and a few other certs but my age apparently wasn’t a factor). My wife, after a 10 month lapse with work, her idea, and she just got a decent paying (15% more than last position) management job working for a Space Force contractor. She does have 2 Masters Degrees but it was her confidence that landed her the job.
i hate contract jobs
Bruh I work a contract now and I love the flexibility of schedules I have but the company don’t like it
I endorse this man in his programming, A.I, and electrical engineering skills. We used to work together at Google when he was the CEO and I was the VP of Marketing. See how stupid that sounds? That's basically LinkedIn but with real sounding names and pictures that haven't been verified to even exist.
Wow, this guy is a CEO of Google, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, Amazon etc.
He's not the captain, he's a field marshall of industry.
The joke with my developer/IT friends is how the sleazy HR peeps use LinkedIn to pick up people. They once told me about this guy that would literally check out girls, start talking to them, added them to their "network" with the promise of a maybe job, then took them out to coffee. Worst part? The guy's modus operandi did work.
Thats genius. Sleazy as fuck, yea, but genius. Although there is some sense to it. Dating sites are incentivised to not find you someone you would stay with. If they did find you someone then you would stop using it. Similarly linkedin probably wont get you a good job, only a lot of good job prospects. Its a place for hr to feel like they are usefull and people to feel like they have a lot of potential for networking but in reality it is all fake.
@@shdowdrgonrider Did the Hinge app catch onto this and thus advertise that it gets deleted after someone finds a match? Is that just a con?
At my old job we called it “Industrial FuckFinder”
BASED!
@@coopergates9680 Hinge is certainly a con for that reason. Not to mention their entire system is flawed. You can see who likes you without matching them. Therefore many people just sit there and wait for the likes to come in so they can pick and choose from a list of people who they know find them attractive already, instead of scrolling through people they haven't gotten a like from so you can match more authentically. As you can tell, this leads to a very large decrease in user interactions for the section of the app meant to find and like people, and in turn that lowers "useful" (liking someone) user interactions on the app in its entirety. This also means that the people who wait for the likes to roll in are also seeing a decrease in their likes over time. It's a lose-lose situation. People are surely deleting Hinge, but it's not because they're finding a match.
Mr. Fluke and I go way back so I can rightfully comment on his leadership skills. In fact, he is such a great leader he became CEO of Facebook 10 years before Mark even had the idea.
Mr. Fluke, kindly return the favour. I'll go make something up now so you can endorse it.
🤣🤣
“Certified Corporate Cringe Scout” 😂😂😂
That had me crying laughing.
@@astrarai-thesobercoder me too
Fact: I’ve never had job offers from LinkedIn. Only Indeed.
Yes. indeed.
Батхонгор Чагнаа indeed that is correct
I'd go as far as to assume you either have no experience on the profile, or it's written like poorly. I consider LinkedIn to be absolutely great for job hunting. I've had dozens of job offers.
Not sure why Josh has this bad of an opinion over it
Bogdan Ghiran no, I get a bunch of offers from recruiters on LinkedIn I barely hear back when I apply directly to companies through LinkedIn. And yeah josh is right about LinkedIn
I have companies reaching out to me directly on LinkedIn very often, of course there are recruiters too, but I normally ignore them. It's also a great way to make professional connections since you can find and connect to people with similar experience. The platform is as useful as you make it.
LinkedIn is a joke. I never had one, yet every person I know want me to have it. Why? It's just another Facebook... No, I'll pass.
Edit: this video is referred to on Reddit on a discussion
The last time I updated my LinkedIn profile was five years ago! I am approaching my forties, and to tell the truth to the young folks out there, you're revealing too much information about yourself on social media, especially LinkedIn (yes it's a social media too!) whither inadvertently or on purpose thinking this is the norm! Life didn't use to be like this, there was something called PRIVACY!
Yeah just blame it on the young folks like they even have a choice.
thank god I'm not the odd one out here. Alot of people feel the same way. 😅
Now I feel bad for having a LinkedIn profile, with pic and CV
same lmaooo
link pls
@@filipelimartins wanna hire? lol
@@quazar-omega wanna see if it's cute.
Filipe Martins freak
It is sad that this is pretty much the only youtube video which tells the truth about LinkedIn. Since becoming a data scientist I have become more aware of my data. Youre also right as photos and dates on LinkedIn can give away your protected characteristics which should not be part of the job application process. If a company requests me to get LinkedIn then I withdraw the application as they have no care for my privacy. I also refuse to send applications to companies which require me to fill out another application on their website (including address and graduation date) as well as a my full cv/cover letter. If I am treated as just a number before even applying, then what would it be like to work with them? I also don't like how tech companies post pictures and job titles of their employees on their website. Privacy is so important.
I'd love to see another video focused exclusively on job gaps and how it negatively affects looking for employment (I'm going through that situation right now!).
Get a friend to be your boss and use him as a contact for a company that youve worked for..... A made up company.
LinkedIn is a meme goldmine
Show me
6:18 using comic sans to assert *_maximum dominance_* . I like this guy
Thats it, deleting my linkedin and imma start to meme there too.
Bruh. I just now took off my LinkedIn picture because I’m black and I’m sick of the discrimination. Holy fuck!!
That's intense
The whole adding a picture to linkedin is completely terrible. Employers only use it to discriminate or creep on candidates.
Lol I’m cracking up at the LinkedIn ad popping up mid rant.
“Alright it says here on your LinkedIn profile that you’re the CEO of... the FBI?”
“The Federal Boobies Inspection agency, yes.”
YOU GAVE SOMEONE A RAISE?! I'm out here grinding for my novelty pens and snickers bars, not some 'money' corporate really don't know how to win their employees over jeez
My favorite is people who list Wharton or Harvard under the education section. If you truly matriculated you would 100% put the name of the degree you obtained like MS, MBA etc. A bunch of people don’t list their degrees. It’s unbelievable. They only took an evening class at top schools and claim they are “from” top schools. If degrees even matter either list them with 100% accuracy or leave them out. LinkedIn truly does not hold people accountable except it’s great showing gaps (which for some reason is a greater sin than lying about other things on the resume)
I have seen people take a free online course from Stanford and then write they are a Stanford grad. Linked in is a joke.
@@TrollMeister_ lmao what the hell
Josh:Linkedin is garbage
LeRUclips: Showing Linkedin ads in this video.
RUclips : Did you like my irony?
Honestly LinkedIn is been really good for me to find jobs. The fact that I don't have to apply to anything and get offers every single week just because I wrote "web developer" on LinkedIn is quite amazing.
@Peter Mortensen Yes, there were actual jobs for the most parts. I found many jobs this way. I had to turn a lot of them down because I can only work so many jobs ahah :P
I posted that I was available for a new web dev position, got 70 calls in less than 2 days. I went to every single interview that was proposed to me, took me 2 weeks to do that. Then got plenty of offers.
#humblebrag
I'm the CEO of Area 51 & the federal reserve!!!! Lol
Please keep making these videos. Most people are not aware of the true purpose of LinkedIn.
Linkedin: Its like an online car dealership full of desperate salesman swarming you with their offers except on Linkedin it's some kind of Life-Coaches, VC hunters, and Real Estate agents.
I also noticed that you can't deactivate your LinkedIn profile either, you can only delete it entirely. I wanted to shut mine off temporarily but the only option is to scrap all your connections etc and start over from scratch if you rejoin. Sucks man, so deleted it anyway 😂
You can hibernate it.
I'm in a career development class so LinkedIn is sure to come up. I'll be sure to send this video to the whole class.
Holy crap! I've been telling people for some time that while selling our data, in breech of contract, to each other, firms would also begin to claim "trading" our data is not "selling" it. Right, again.
It always cracks me up when I look at my colleagues Linked In job titles. Looks like our company has 100 CTOs.
“uhhmkayy- so your CEO voice is none other than Mr. Mackey uhmmkayyy”
Gotta be honest. I now want to get rid of my linked in, but holy heck i'm scared to do so.
Never be afraid and suffer no guilt. It won't be the end of the world. In fact I think your life will improve if you delete LinkedIn as well as Facebook.
Don't forget about "LinkedIn premium")
Which is the biggest joke.
"Nobody actually uses LinkedIn unless you're looking for a job."
Not true. When I visit offices of recruiting agencies, all I see are just rows and rows of open LinkedIn windows.
@Jerry Upshaw haha the endorsements feature is kind of a "I'll scratch your back if you scratch mine" kind of deal. But so is everything in life. You get exactly what you put into LinkedIn.
8:10 "This sounds like selling your data with extra steps", Rick and Morty
My employees have no job gaps, are multidisciplined, cheap, and build their own name tags out of macaroni.
And I made them buy the macaroni -_$
you mean you made Their parents buy the macaroni.
Because of this and privacy reasons, I quit Linked In.
I am now happier :D
omg you said the TRUTH about what I was thinking about last few months, I never got hired via LinkedIn, all the jobs interviews that I went to were for shitty jobs or for new businesses who have no idea how to function a business, it is full of shit, I'm using LinkedIn to rant about some companies/ employers (anonymously) who violated labor law, or discriminated people, Linkedin is a joke
a recruiter once confessed to me that they use linkedin because they think displaying your information publicly means you're not lying.
Plot twist: He's actually Sundar Pichai, who wants to rant about linkedin without getting sued
Job gap? I’m acquiring new skills 😂
I had to use LinkedIn for a university course. Damn thing went through all the contacts on my phone and asked them to join.
No thanks.
I hope nobody takes my linked-in profile seriously - it's only social media, after all...
There's demand for the job gap video, at least from me. I never get why it matters.
Job gap = employers see you as incompetent if you have at least 6 months or more of a gap.
I've always considered linkedin as bull. It's another Facebook but with a "professional" front. I consider it dangerous.
Truth 💯
Great video. Linkedin - like Facebook - is SUPER CRAP. May their hard drives fail and their executives follow-through into their underpants after farting.
Awesome video Josh. Straight facts.
and I love how you say "HR Lady"😂
Just wondering, has anyone actually gotten a job using LinkedIn? I have been applying for a lot of jobs lately and I don't think I have ever even gotten an interview from an employer at LinkedIn. All my callbacks and interviews have come from either Indeed posts (being careful to avoid fake-sounding or low-quality listings) or by applying directly on a company site.
I’ve mostly gotten jobs from Indeed also. Maybe Linked in is more tech jobs
Nope. I never have.
Nope never. LinkedIn is useless for jobs.
I was recently contacted by a woman who crearly have a profil pic generated by machine learning software
Job gaps aren't a deal breaker anymore. Have taken a handful of breaks just for the sake of it and it hasn't ever been an issue. Make up a reason if you have to, but honestly if your skills are up-to-date and in line with the position nobody is going to care. I just say I took a break to recharge in between roles and focus on health/personal development.
Job gaps are a deal breaker. They were for me, they were for my dad. And many people who leave for a few years and come back
They don't care about job gaps at all if you have an interesting resume. I had a hard time at the beginning because mine was really mainstream but I changed it over time and that make me land a job in Artificial Intelligence without an engineering degree
Now that sounds great, how did you get the skills and convice the gatekeepers to interview you? :-)
Linked In is garbage. Years ago, a guy called me back for a job I submitted for and said "You don't have a linked in account". I said "that's correct". He said "why". I told him "If me getting a job interview is based on my linked in profile and not my skill set and job experience as outlined on my resume it's more than likely not a company I would do work for". Needless to say he was not happy with me saying that.
your ceo voice sounds like a cheap version of cr1t1cal
cr1t1kal also sounds like a cheap version of himself
Absolute best one line summary I have yet heard, nice one.
Your should get a T-Shirt printed with that line "If its free, then you're the product!"
Unfortunately, the reality of the situation is that if you don't add your Linkedin profile to be judged, you're instantly disqualified from the position. So it's either you get judged in hopes of them liking you or you're just disqualified.
I still get calls from recruiters that somehow have a resume of mine that is nearly 20 years out of date.
But LinkedIn wasn't around 20 years ago. Are you saying you purposely uploaded a 20-year out-of-date resume? You have had no employment in the past 20 years?
Or someone got ahold of an old paper resume that you submitted 20 years ago?
@@AK-47ISTHEWAY My guess is that a recruiter sold the resume at some point to a resume farming operation.
I was required to upload photo ID once. I did. I'm ashamed
I guess we can say the same thing about the actual Resume. You can write anything you want. I think that’s why the companies do the background checks and require you to write prior supervisor’s numbers to verify your employment but I have to say working at 5-9 job does make me grieving at the end. I think linked-in is really based on trust system because, as you mentioned in the video, it brings a different crowd of people. It’d be foolish to be dishonest if you really want a job
Like you're actually going to do that on your resume? Yea my best friend is my supervisor.
PlotTwist: This guy might actually be the CEO of Google
LinkedIn is like Instagram for Professionals
🤣
ex google techlead?
next level
ex google CEO
A few years ago a collegemate told me that I should have a LinkedIn account to help me get a job after graduation.
2019, still no LinkedIn account. I'm confident in eventually getting a desired position without some free social media that I don't want at all.
Everyone keeps telling you to obsess over the small things, about having a LinkedIn, that every word on your CV shows your value, how to get a professional photo and so on. In reality they'll mostly look at your qualifications and experience and that's it. Some companies will care, but in the end most people will just pick the best candidate when it comes to qualifications.
once after a webinar, a guy asked us to endorse his skills in linkedin in exchange for a free e-book
your right. i remember being told in school not to put a photo on your cv for these reasons but now everyone has linkedIn which gives all this stuff away
I use it a lot and I have a great job. I like to look at people's career trajectory. What they did to get where they are. I get ideas from people's backgrounds...sometimes things I would have never thought or known about on my own searching. It's a great tool...not everyone is lying on there, lots of normal people who just put what they are doing there and its the straight truth.
less the Linkedin interactions one has, the competency increases. Linkedin will be trash like Facebook, maybe already is
Correct! Nothing is vetted in the LinkedIn forum.
Mr. Fluke forgot his personal assistant to bring him his morning ☕️😀
I was so far down the corporate hole, I actually had Linkedin premium. When I stopped, they started to harass me to get back on the premium. Reminded me of that other "network" platform Internations where if you quit their paid membership, you'll face the fury of their "membership team".
linkedin just feels like twitter but everyone acts good with each other! 🤨
I never received from my friends or coworkers any pluses or good comments on my LinkedIn, although I had written good comments and recommendations to them. My coworkers refuse to so, because of jealousy and rivalry. In Linkedin we are not friends, we are rivels. No one will give you good references from your bosses and colleagues.
Lmao that voice in the intro had me dude, sorta reminds me of mr mackay from south park
The best way to deal with LinkedIn being forced upon us is to simply not use it.
"CEO of Google, FB etc. all at the same time" LoL this made me laugh so hard
@Joshua Fluke People do check their linked in messages. Not as often as any other media but they do. My method to get information about any company or any job is to find an employee in the role on LinkedIn and contact him. Usually they answer my questions because they hope to forward my candidature to HR so they get a bonus.
I've rarely heard that ever work.
LMFAOOO THE RECOMMENDATION FROM THE PERSON YOU DONT KNOW
I wasn't gonna comment, but while watching this video i got my first LinkedIn message in the last 6 months. They're definitely listening lol.