LinkedIn locked me out of my own account. The only way back is through Persona — a third-party service that wants a photo of my passport, a scan of my face, and a recording of my movements (liveness detection: turn your head, follow the dot, so a still photo can’t stand in for me). The stated reason: “unusual activity.” The real reason, of course, is big tech spearheading a movement toward absolute control over people.
But then what’s the solution? How do you find jobs without LinkedIn? The corporation hell prefers “efficiency”, they’ll always prefer these centralized solutions to find workers.
I have no evidence that LinkedIn provides work, I attempted to use it for several years to find work and was entirely unsuccessful.
Among the quagmire I left, all I saw was Assumed Intelligence slop and bots attempting to harvest contacts.
There was a time when LinkedIn was useful as a tool to grow and interact with your network, these days it’s Xitter with more characters.
I found my job at LinkedIn. And a few interviews as well. I’m not working now, but in the past I found it there.
It’s unbearable for sure, but I don’t see any other option.
All the same jobs get posted on the various job boards like indeed, dice, career builder, etc