That have nothing to do with the job or industry? Like I don’t care that the recruiter I spoke to 2 years ago is engaged.
I almost deleted the app when I saw a CEO post photos of himself and family in swimwear eating dominos in a paddling pool … who takes these photos and thinks yeah that looks good I’ll post that.
I am talking besides the horrible, fake-smile, ass-licking corpo talk that happens between the users, trying to upplay their professionality with some nice corporate buzzwords.
LinkedIn has one of the most horrendous user interfaces i've used. It feels stuffed and clunky, and you have no idea where you need to go to do what you want.
When posting job listings for my company, they pull some shady shit so the post goes live without a clear "post button", giving me the same option of "continue" instead. Then they try to pressure me into paying for boosting or advertising it.
Ever since i had to start using LinkedIn for my company, i've hated every single interaction. Genuinely, how is this site still running?
I think it is a cool idea to show proficiency with a tool, but would be more beneficial if they had more diverse apps on there.
Right now I only have Beehiiv and Lovable on my profile
I keep going back and forth on LinkedIn.
On one hand, the feed can be painful. So many posts feel exaggerated, fake-positive, or written like everyone is trying to become a thought leader.
On the other hand, I know people do get jobs, clients, and connections from it.
So for people who still use it regularly, what is the real value for you?
Not the official answer. I mean how you actually use it.
Now with the absurd amount of use of AI is it still worth writing copywriting.. I used to take copywriting task for startups or freelancer but as AI use got prominent, Im starting to get fewer client.. I still get a bunch along with generating poster and images but thats like once in a blue moon
So I have a Google chrome on my laptop that is not signed in with any email id, also I don't have LinkedIn account signed in that chrome. Plus I open the incognito mode for looking some people i personally know in the LinkedIn account by Google search. Will the LinkedIn account owner know that someone viewed there profile by any chance through any kind of information. Also Will they know it if they have a premium account ??
The people I know who are doing genuinely impressive work rarely post about it.
Meanwhile, my feed is full of "I almost gave up..." stories, AI-generated motivational posts, humblebrags, and the same career advice repeated in different words.
I'm not even saying people shouldn't build a personal brand. It clearly creates opportunities.
But sometimes it feels like visibility has become its own form of credibility.
I've caught myself assuming someone is an expert simply because they post consistently, only to realize later that someone much more experienced has barely touched LinkedIn in months.
It makes me wonder how much we're rewarding people for communicating success versus actually creating it.
Maybe that's just how every social platform evolves.
Or maybe I'm spending too much time in my feed.
Has anyone else noticed this shift, or am I just seeing a very weird corner of LinkedIn?
Title. I immediately unliked and put my account on hibernate…. Idk if it sends a notification or not. I tried with my brother and he didn’t get a push notification but he did it see in his notifications on the app and when I unliked it went away. I really don’t wanna be seen as creepy I just wanted to zoom in on what they reposted…..
I just graduated high school as valedictorian and finally decided to make a LinkedIn account over the summer. I'm basically starting from scratch and building my profile before university.
For my first post, I was thinking of sharing my 3-minute valedictorian speech. It just recorded from the audience. The camera is zoomed in on me the whole time, so the quality is decent but definitely not cinematic.
The speech starts with a strong opening, and it's exactly 3 minutes long.
I was also thinking of adding one graduation photo of me after the ceremony and keeping the caption short.
My question is: would you actually post the full speech, or would you trim it down. I don't want my first LinkedIn post to come across as self-congratulatory or like I'm trying too hard. I also don't want to cut it if the full speech is the better way to show communication skills.
Curious what people who actually use LinkedIn think.
LinkedIn feels so fake now. Like everyone is either trying to go viral, sell me something or turn the most mediocre situation into a thought leader post.
And then job searching on there doesn’t feel real either. I swear I see the same roles reposted over and over and half the job posts don’t even feel authentic.
To be honest I’ve always found the best opportunities come from people I know, random conversations and connections I’ve actually made.
It’s meant to be a networking platform but it doesn’t really feel like networking anymore. It feels more like a content platform.
Anyone else feel the same? What are your frustrations with LinkedOut 🤭
A few years ago everyone had:
Now it feels like every second profile has:
And somehow everyone looks like they're running a Fortune 500 company.
I'm not even against AI headshots. Some of them look great.
I just find it funny how quickly LinkedIn went from "professional networking" to "everyone accidentally becoming a stock photo model."
Be honest...
Is your profile picture AI-generated? 👀
Currently looking to update my resume/linked in
I went to college back in 2017-2019 for finance and looking to get into a field unrelated to what I was studying in college
Is it beneficial for me to list to years I went to college in my resume/linkedin or should I remove it since it’s unrelated and has been a very long time?
I cannot stand LinkedIn.
Everything seems fake, both the jobs and the posts from random people.
Everyone writes a huge post which states a problem and then gives an insight of how to solve or how to tackle a problem. Everyone else agrees in the comment section and then nothing changes.
For example, HR wrote once how a guy applied 3 times for the same position and how she kept rejecting the first two times. After the third time she decided to call the applicant for an interview (because she was annoyed I guess) and guess what, they hired the applicant. At the end of the post it was written "...I understood that we shouldn't judge an applicant by his/her CV.". What? Really? Such a huge invention.
The comments were even more diabolical: claps and congratulations. My jaw dropped because for me it was a sign of incompetence rather than a "good" example and a sign of how many good applications are lost because someone in HR doesn't like the CVs.
Another example, everyone who is not lazy posts that AI broke the system bla bla bla. What? Really? Obviously, if HR uses AI for recruiting then the applicant uses AI to build their CVs, portfolios and Cover Letters. The game becomes who will fool more and put more bs in the job posting or in the CV.
And then, NO ONE solves a problem. The recruitment system with fake posts continues flooding LinkedIn and making it a useless tool to use.
I hope I am not the only one who gets so much frustrated from everything on LinkedIn.
If you don't deliver on the promise after the "See more," people won't read your posts again. So don't just focus on writing a great hook.... make sure the rest of your content delivers what the hook promised.
I have attempted to log in to LinkedIn using my Gmail account. The broken system took me through a loop of endless arbitrary box checking to confirm that I wasn’t a bot, which was an absolute 5hi7 storm to begin with. Then it has the hide to inform me that access to my account is blocked, due to privacy concerns after I spent half an hour being gooned by pictures of buses and fire hydrants. I have then tried to use their other broken partner system ‘Persona’ (what an absolute contradictory title) to verify my identity, which refuses to accept my particulars, sighting some random error. Honestly, If I had to use this for my work I would have no hair left. An absolutely frustrating experience from the get go. Ffs LinkedIn, spend some proper coin and fix this abhorrent mess.
Over the past 3 months I sent around 1,200 cold LinkedIn messages to B2B prospects, same ICP, same targeting. The only variable was the message format.
Short message (3 lines, no context): 9% reply rate.
Long personalized message (with company research): 16% reply rate.
Question only (no pitch, no intro, just a relevant question): 24% reply rate.
The question format won by a mile, but the interesting part is what happened after the first reply. Conversations that started with a question converted to booked calls at 34%. The other two formats: under 15%.
So not only did the question get more replies, it attracted people who were actually interested, not just being polite.
A few things I learned about what makes the question format work:
On the personalized long message: it performed better than the short one, but the effort-to-result ratio made it unsustainable. I was spending 10-15 minutes per message for a 16% reply rate. With the question format I spent 2-3 minutes and got better results.
One thing I got wrong early on: I was optimizing for reply rate without tracking what happened after. A 30% reply rate means nothing if none of those people are your ICP.
The metric that actually matters is replies-from-ICP-to-booked-call. Everything else is noise.
Curious what formats have worked for you, and whether the question approach holds across different industries or if it's specific to certain markets.
I've tried writing LinkedIn posts with AI a few times, but they almost always end up sounding generic or overly polished.
I'm curious:
Do you use AI for your LinkedIn posts?
If yes, what's your workflow?
If no, what's stopping you?
I'd love to hear what's worked (or hasn't) for you.
Running outreach from 12 of our own employee profiles right now, LinkedIn is by far our best channel for our segment, signal sourcing is dialed in. Looking to scale beyond what our own headcount can support.
Been looking into profile rental / buying access to profiles from individuals, but everything I read says rented profiles get burned in ~2 weeks, and there's a decent chance of just getting scammed by whoever's "renting" them out.
Plan would be to connect additional accounts to HeyReach, warm them up, and possibly move to Premium once they've built up some trust/activity history.
No self-promo please, just what's actually worked (or blown up) for you, and you'd personally recommend.
Every day I see posts like:
"Today, while drinking my morning coffee, I realized something profound about leadership..."
Then 15 paragraphs later the lesson is basically:
"Be nice to people."
Or someone writes a whole story about missing a train, dropping a sandwich, talking to a stranger and somehow turns it into a life-changing business lesson.
Maybe it's just me, but I'd rather read:
Less storytelling.
More useful information.
Am I the only one feeling this way?