Friday, October 4 - "Why is LinkedIn so Toxic?"

Adam Phillips
October 04, 2024

Good morning!

Just checking in you. How are you doing today?

Here’s what’s on the job description for today:

New roles from a small but rapidly growing consulting firm, which is offering sponsorship visas (oh la la).
Jeni asks, “all I see on LinkedIn is people complaining about the hiring process. Why is it so toxic at the moment?”

“My attitude has always been, if you fall flat on your face, at least you’re moving forward. All you have to do is get back up and try again.”

- Richard Branson

IN HIRING

Capua

With a small but growing team of 200, the London-based consultancy stands out by offering visa sponsorship to a range of roles.
There are really four roles that caught my eye:
- Data Analyst - Click here for full details
- Management Consultant - Click here for full details
- Technical Product Manager - Click here for full details
- Financial Operations Associate - Click here for full details

Click here for the company’s career page

Their logo sucks so I put a cute picture of a cat

TODAY’S QUESTION

Jeni asks, “all I see on LinkedIn is people complaining about the hiring process. Why is it so toxic at the moment?”

Recommendation: to be fair to whoever posted that, the hiring process does suck extra hard these days. If you’re tired of your LinkedIn, try this:

First, obviously you can block people but that doesn’t feel very helpful. I actually prefer to comment calling them out and asking what world they’re living in, if they post something ridiculous. It feels better than being a bigger person but to each there own.
Second, create a process for LinkedIn that actually makes sense. If you’re looking for a job, most of the posts don’t have anything to do with you. The advice is often quite broad and people celebrating their promotion doesn’t help when you’re on the 12th rejection email of the day.
Instead, set up links to the part of the site you want. Here are a few examples:
- For networking: LINK
  - This is set up for those who want to find Product Managers in finance within the UK. Make the changes to the filters so it matches your unique needs.
- For jobs: LINK
  - This is prepared for the same role as the above. Again, make the necessary changes so it fits you. For best results, keep the role in quotation marks as I have it.

Conclusion:

LinkedIn can be a tire fire but there’s obvious value in it when setup in a purposeful manner.

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