I have been looking for a job for 4 months now and have never used LinkedIn to search. I had very good experiences with Google for Jobs, where I could set up alerts for certain search terms and the radius in which I was searching, whereby you can also exclude cities if necessary. This meant I didn't have to use another job board, I only used it for forwarding. Since the last rework, Google for Jobs almost always finds the company websites with the job advertisments directly, so I no longer have to look at job boards at all, a very pleasant experience. I used LinkedIn once to test it and all that came up was generic crap, it's unbelievable how a site that's supposed to be about professional life can be so sub-par at finding jobs. And just to conclude this post, I successfully found a job with this method.

Was it supposed to be good at something? I was only ever told to to get it in case an employer Googles me, never to actually try to find jobs. That's what indeed is for (or in my case just going directly to the employer's website).

Your 2 or 3 big local platforms of choice.

vr chat

Rolodex?

Building up an actual network of co workers and maintaining a portfolio.

You have xing, but it's big in DACH countries only and its still owned/ruled by a company. Roll up our own website and socialize / network with like minded people on the fediverse instead.

Employers, as a general body, fundamentally disagree with what the fediverse stands for

Naw, Copilot is loving the free technical data in the form of "AI and user created articles".

Well, Excel is already an e-sport, so Microsoft is halfway there

While HR watches the interactions for fireable offenses

EITHER:

• they are incompetent, & not understanding Branding, at all ( read the books of Al Ries on Branding, Marketing, Focus, etc, and that book on Focus is the core of why LinkedIn is now hosed )

XOR:

• somebody in upper-management there is a trojan, the same as Steve Ballmer got a trojan into Nokia, as a means of harvesting all sorts of patent-rights while destroying Nokia ( what Citadel & Boston Consulting Group did to Sears is the same, except that Citadel was shorting it, instead of getting a sea of patent-licenses )

( well, OK, the combination of both is actually-possible, but less-likely? )

In either case, what they're doing, besides Microsofting the joint, ( the verb "to Microsoft" means to highjack/trojan/enshittify/rot-all-value-from a company through partial/total ownership ), is they are making-certain that whatever competitor should appear on the horizon, Microsoft is stacking-odds FOR that competitor, against LinkedIn.

Same as how MySpace made certain that people disliked it enough to suddenly-jump-ship when Facebook came around..

Anti-strategy.

CORE Anti-strategy.

We evidently haven't figured-out how to test for strategic intelligence, yet, as it obviously has nothing, whatsoever, to do with SAT++.

LinkedIn has become business-casual facebook.

Already seeing many using it as a Tumblr/Twitter replacement where they share shower thoughts unprompted. It's really odd.

LinkedIn reminds me of that scene in Men in Black where they discover a weird little society living inside a locker. But instead of a locker, it's a job board.

Seeing how some users already interpret is as a dating app ... they're not the only ones

Or team building games