Just like Indeed if you apply, you should be able to withdraw your application.

Okay, I need some outside opinions because I’m overthinking this.
There’s a person on linkedin whose career path is really relevant to the direction I’m interested in professionally.
We connected around 2–3 months ago but we’ve never actually interacted. I don’t post on linkedin, so there hasn’t really been an opportunity for them to interact with my content either.
A few days ago, I finally decided to message them. I sent it on saturday and it’s now wednesday. My message was roughly:
“Hey XX, hope you’re doing well :) We connected a while ago and I realized I never actually said hi haha. I was curious, what made you want to move from YY into ZZ?”
It wasn’t a long message or anything.
About an hour after I sent it, they viewed my profile. And that was it. No reply so far. Now I’m wondering:
Did I do something wrong with the message?
Should I send a follow-up eventually or just leave it alone? If I should follow up, what would you actually say without making it awkward or seeming pushy?

Alright I’m gonna ask here because I’m curious. Is it weird if my wife posts that she got a new job, and I comment on it? In real life, I of course tell her how proud I am and how awesome she is, but on LinkedIn it just feels weird. We were talking about it and she said I’m weird on LinkedIn. I think I’m just following unwritten rules. In reality I have no idea if I’m off or if she’s off, thoughts? Would it be weird? We have the same last name so I feel like it comes off as brown nosing.

I am happily retired and my Linkedin page mentions that. I occasionally get inquiries, but they are generic and I don't respond. But, recently, I received an inquiry from a recruiter using my last two jobs as a perfect fit for a new position. When I asked for a formal job description, it quoted the need for a technical degree referencing my Earth Science background. The simple description also listed a salary range of $200-240K. That seemed unusually generous, so I Googled the recruiter's name and the only hit was her Linkedin history through 2019. She also used a simple Google account, not a corporate website. When I questioned this, she said she's actually working for a subcontractor and offered their email address. Google did not find any hits for that secondary company. When they asked $300 to clean up my resume, I walked away.

Has anybody else had a similar experience? If so, how do they get rewarded and how do I get scammed?

LinkedIn has resumed its "new AI Job Search" as of a few hours ago. It is still propagating as page refreshes are pulling up both for me right now. Hoping we can use this post as a running repository for latest experiences with this deeply troubled new functionality. For now, my bookmarks still work and I will keep using them, but who knows how long they'll remain intact.

To LinkedIn >> Hard to imagine you have exorcised all of the demons/inadequacies of your new AI job search already, but I hope for your sake that you did. Otherwise, hell will break loose here all over again...

ETA-2: [[Sigh]] New verbiage on the classic page now reads, "We’re gradually retiring classic job search starting in September. Try AI-powered job search and describe the role you want in your own words."

!Hey LinkedIn! -- Before you retire anything, please make sure you have addressed and *totally resolved* everything that was reported to you in your recent thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/linkedin/comments/1vsyksl/comment/p4vk2yr/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

ETA-1: On the new page, there is a drop down called Learn More where they have provided the option to use Classic. I really, really hope they keep that dropdown intact for the foreseeable future.

How can we navigate our reach to gain the same?

For the notifications that say, “You got an invite. So-and-so finished Zip.” Are those people actually sending you invites, or is it coming from LinkedIn itself?

I'm a data analyst on a business development team and I'm doing some research on LinkedIn SalesNavigator/TeamLink. I was wondering if anyone is using it for purposes other than sales leads. I work with a team that hosts webinars and events for attorneys, clients, and prospective clients. I want to consider TeamLink as a tool for warm introductions/invites to the events. Attorneys are terrible at providing contacts that they made at events so we can track ROI, and TeamLink sounds like it might be an interesting way to move in the right direction.

Is anyone using it in a way similar to that?

My company publishes two blogs weekly for our two main verticals. I've been tasked with transferring these articles over to LinkedIn, and I was wondering what the best approach for this is. Are company pages or individual ones better? Additionally, I've heard LinkedIn punishes you for reposting identical content from other websites, and similarly punishes content that directs users off of LinkedIn, so identical posts or prologues are also something I'm hesitant about. I want to bolster our article presence on LinkedIn, but I want to do it right while also not creating a entire other feed to manage. Interested to hear the community's thoughts on this. Thanks!

They’re constantly calling me to do an interview. And it’s the same client! I know because I already interviewed with them and the client rejected me, because they wanted someone who would be in the office three days a week. And I work remotely.

Why do they keep insisting? Damn agencies. Stop muddying everything up! I don’t want you making business out of my time. I won’t allow it. Stop scamming us!

1. A real company posts a job offer on LinkedIn.

2. Immediately, agencies start posting the same offer many times. As a result, the original offer becomes inaccessible.

3. Agencies begin interviewing candidates. As a result, the same candidate may end up doing the same technical tests and interviews for the same company.

4. Agencies contact the original company and try to sell them a list of candidates.

5. The company may reject them. As a result, the candidates have done interviews and technical tests for nothing.

6. The company may accept, but will only keep, in the best-case scenario, one candidate. As a result, most candidates have wasted their time doing interviews and technical tests.

Verdict: the agencies win, the candidates lose.

I'm trolling so hard on LinkedIn it is so fun now I said I would buy the 150th profile viewer steak dinner but I didn't say where it was from.

I'm open to ideas if you guys have any suggestions where I should get this person steak dinner from I'm thinking cracker barrel.

Linkedin wasn't all that bad before. I was able to set up filters for companies and get daily notifications. My occasional post also got a lot of engagement even though that was not my objective. But lately I can't help but wonder that Linkedin is slowly turning into a dating site.

The pricing they do is extremely similar to dating sites: you are limited to searching only a few profiles a day and if you want to contact people or the hiring manager outside your network you gotta pay up.

So I think, and this is just speculation, linkedin hired folks from who had success with dating sites, and are now running it like one. I can't think of any other explanation because in this business model, only a few lucky job seekers get the most job offers and the rest of are just chumps paying up for premium.

If a fella had his long-standing account locked for refusing to provide photo-ID, can he reopen it years later with some changes so that the bio is not a duplicate? I was a member in good standing for some 20 years and quite frankly never found value in Linkedin.

However, I am now applying for a volunteer position with an NGO and it's asking for my Linkedin and other social media accounts. I don't have any social media accounts other than my reddit one which hides my posting history.

i’ve tried everything, cleared my cache, reinstalled the app, tried logging in from a different browser, nothing is working, everytime i try to login it says “challenge failed, pls try again”, can someone pls help

I can see that there used to be a video feed with short form content. However, I don’t have the button on my mobile app. I saw some posts today on LinkedIn of people complaining about the feature. Is there any way for me to enable it? Thank you!

This has been driving me nuts about LinkedIn’s job search tools lately: when you filter or sort for recent jobs, it treats a job that was “reposted 2 days ago” basically the same as one that was actually “posted 2 days ago" when you're trying to filter for recently posted jobs.

But... those are very different pieces of information for a job seeker.

If I’m looking at something that was genuinely posted three days ago, I know I’m probably applying relatively early (depending on the sector.) If a job was originally posted six weeks ago and LinkedIn "reposted" it three days ago, I have no idea whether the employer is still actively reviewing applications, whether they’re already interviewing finalists, or whether the listing is effectively stale.

They should let “Date posted” filters operate on the original posting date.

Am I the only person who finds this incredibly irritating? Has anyone figured out a reliable way to tell how old a LinkedIn job posting actually is?

I’d also be curious to hear from recruiters/hiring managers about what LinkedIn is doing on the employer side when these jobs get marked as “reposted.”

I'm trying to upload a pdf and getting "error occurred try again" on a desktop. can't also upload images. file size max 10mb

I'm clicking on a document icon while uploading pdf and on image icon when uploading image. doesn't work

on the mobile app it works.

I tried these steps to solve it

1 cleared the browser data and cookies cache.

2 incognito mode

3 tried chrome, Firefox and edge browser

4 also did network reset in windows 11

I also have a Linux laptop tried on it with the same error. please fix it.

So I’ve been applying to jobs through LinkedIn, and I keep getting messages from people saying they want me to attend an online Zoom meeting first. Has anyone else been experiencing this? I’m just curious if this is normal with LinkedIn jobs or if I should be more cautious about these types of opportunities.

I took a sabbatical from LinkedIn, but I recently started posting and spending time on the platform again.

Here is what I have noticed over the past week:

1. People admonish others for writing with AI. Meanwhile, they wrote that very post with AI.
2. Everyone jumps on trends. Fair enough, it does get you traction. But because everyone is using AI, there are hardly any unique takes or opinions.
3. Using a photo, whether related to your post or not, is a great way to get more engagement.
4. People make up stories that are so freaking implausible, they make your head spin.
5. People make deliberate grammatical mistakes so that people can't figure out their content was written by AI.
6. Bland takes because it is a 'professional' platform. People try extra hard not to offend anyone.
7. Everyone writes like a toddler is going to read their post. Four word sentences with multiple line breaks.
8. I don't use "Seems like AI slop" button cause I can't somehow do that to another human being. I don't want to f up anyone's livelihood.

I am not against using AI. I have done it as well. I still do but not for writing. But I always made sure that the underlying take was mine.

I know not everyone is good at writing and expressing themselves.

But I would rather read your opinion and learn about your perspective in broken English than read the most generic piece of information that I can just Google.

I've tried the trick with first sending the link to a LinkedIn contact as a message. I've tried three different browsers (Chrome, Edge, Opera) and the LinkedIn mobile app. I've tried two different OpenGraph plugins for Wordpress... no dice.

When pasting the link into Whatsapp or Signal it displays a preview (blog name, tagline, site icon) just fine.

I've done some tests and noticed that LinkedIn also refuses to show a preview for certain major websites like Reddit or YouTube (Wikipedia and Google on the other hand work fine). So maybe the problem is not with my blog?

Can anyone help with this? Without a clickable preview with a nice image, the chances that anyone will notice my amazing blog posts let alone click on them are much reduced. Thanks in advance!

I am 2nd year college student and I still don't know just how do my batchmates, seniors and even my juniors post on Linkedin. I have a professional profile ready but I just don't know what can I post about on it, they also use a very professional language and i just don't know how they are able to do that. Did you guys find this troublesome too? How did you overcome this ?

And there's no way to retrain the system or give feedback, except by hitting the X and making the job disappear. However, over the past 2 weeks I've seen nothing but useless garbage.