Is not having a well established LinkedIn account a disadvantage?

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Soapy_Ninja@reddit

I think LinkedIn is great. I don’t use it to apply for jobs, but reaching out to pilots at places I’ve wanted to work at has helped tremendously.

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Comprehensive-Try430@reddit

LinkedIn is just a platform people use to show who has the biggest cock

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carl-swagan@reddit

LinkedIn has been useless for finding aviation jobs in my experience.

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toshibathezombie@reddit

I made it into a major (UK) airline without linkedin.

I just landed a job with a legacy airline without linkedin and that's my career set.

The only job offers from linkedin were from recruiters finding pilots for very small outfits, usually instructor positions on SEP, MEP cargo or turboprop charter stuff... Literally all downgrades both in development and pay to the jobs I got without linkedin...

I think some industries are great for linkedin, but aviation, especially flight deck is just not one of them.

Hours and type count more than linkedin karma farming posts.

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GryphonGuitar@reddit

I've seen exactly one instance of this - a job posting for a senior role where they weren't considering applicants who had fewer than 100 endorsements for certain skills on their LinkedIn profile. This is the only time I've seen any recruitment impact linked directly to this.

LinkedIn can help you find people and organizations though. We've had a few people apply to work here because they want to work on a certain initiative or other they saw on LinkedIn.

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EliteEthos@reddit

Not at all.

LinkedIn is gutter trash. It’s just people flaunting their resumes as if they are gods and people spamming their trash jobs in India.

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Mundane-Reality-7770@reddit

Tell us how you really feel

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EliteEthos@reddit

I can go on…

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Mundane-Reality-7770@reddit

The floor is yours. Lemme grab some popcorn

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EliteEthos@reddit

I would be remiss if I didn’t start with Reid Hoffman… and his connections with Jeffrey Epstein and his associations with the World Economic Forum and the Bilderberg Group.

LinkedIn has become the Facebook of the job hunting.

If Facebook is where you go to lie to your friends and family about how great your life is, LinkedIn is where you go to lie to your coworkers about your qualifications.

Aside from the UI and paywall protected features, the amount of absolute garbage on that platform is fucking wild. The same boomer and AI slop you would find on Facebook is being posted by people with their resume attached to their profile along with their employer’s name.

It appears that LinkedIn forces you via threat of death to post the most obligatory, cliché inspiration quotes, regardless of your current role. Everyone from the janitor, to the receptionist, to the real estate agent, to the CEO. All know EXACTLY what you need to succeed (regardless of their own personal level of success).

Then you have the “entrepreneurs”. This so LinkedIn speak for “unemployed but I’ll soon figure it out because I’m valued for my independent and unique thinking”. They ultimately wind up selling real estate or Mary Kay.

I was on there STRICTLY because veterans got a free year but somehow I was able to use it more than once. The networking garbage. You can click on someone’s profile, and it’ll tell them you did… even if you don’t know the dude but you have a mutual friend. Many people simply want “connections”, so you get requests from friends of friends, none of whom will ever speak to you.

I was a prior aviation human factors engineer… I would get spammed probably weekly by someone whose name I would never be able to pronounce asking if I wanted a job with a company doing medical HFE… which I felt wasn’t even close to my experience.

They would lack formal job posting and in some cases formal websites. The ones that did have a website winded up being some weird conglomerate website that would have several subsidiary companies to the point where it wouldn’t even seem legit.

I’m a better person having left. If it weren’t for some decent subs on Reddit that I like to participate in, I’d find my way out of that too.

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Mundane-Reality-7770@reddit

10/10. Good rant. Cheers mate.

I've never signed up for LinkedIn. Yet I have on numerous occasions deleted my LinkedIn account. I get messages despite having no profile description. How? It's all scammy trash.

I've never had Facebook, I don't care enough about others to see what someone is up to. And I'm not naive enough to think someone cares about me.

35 year old boomer here apparently.

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Flimsy-Ad-858@reddit

Indian LinkedIn does create some excellent meme material though.

Between E=mc^2+AI and Adolf "Massive action taker" Hitler, there's some good stuff in there.

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PrimaryImplement@reddit

r/LinkedInLunatics is my daily source of entertainment.

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doomed43@reddit

I was told by Kit Darby when he was writing my resume I needed to make a LinkedIn account. Made it, and I hate it. So far it hasn’t done any good, except for spamming my email, sometimes with job posts where I only qualify for 1% of them.

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flightist@reddit

It goes the other way. I ran a training dept for years and it spams a dozen retail training jobs a month at me.

Good to know if I ever get sick of the airline thing I could probably get a gig deciding how to train teenagers to fold clothes or front shelves.

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PizzaJolly1@reddit

I finally landed an interview after having an app in with a company for almost a year by connecting with and messaging a recruiter on LinkedIn. So Ill give it an endorsement begrudgingly based on that. I dont post anything, but I have all my job history on there along with my resume.

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