State of the Market

[hungry_hog]

Lots of showing off on LI. Reading it you would think most users were a combination of Albert Einstein, James Bond and Winston Churchill by the age of 25.

[ResistanceFighter]

SchumiStars did you try a CV ATS optimiser yet like I suggested some weeks back? if so which one?

Do these actually exist? I spent a bit of time looking for one, but the sites offering the service just looked like they were preying on folk while they are down thinking their CV is the problem - if anybody here has any links, i'd be keen to take a look

[oliverson]

This is it. LinkedIn is useful for networking and keeping in touch with your existing network and I have got several contracts off the back of it but the posts have become a vaguely business focussed Facebook where the algorithm promotes click bait rather than some of the interesting stuff that does actually get posted. LinkedIn jobs briefly showed promise but is much the same as every other job board now as everything advertised gets swamped with applications.

Just cancelled my LinkedIn Premium subscription on the grounds it doesn't seem to offer any tangible benefits.

I absolutely loathe the site and the moronic posts that appear in my feed. I utterly detest it if I'm honest BUT it's been a very good source of income for me. My last contract for example netted about half a million pounds, and that was from some random 'head hunter' approaching me with a role. I suspect my next role will either come from LinkedIn or JobServe, with an outside chance of somebody in my network coming good.

[quackhandle]

I absolutely loathe the site and the moronic posts that appear in my feed. I utterly detest it if I'm honest BUT it's been a very good source of income for me. My last contract for example netted about half a million pounds, and that was from some random 'head hunter' approaching me with a role. I suspect my next role will either come from LinkedIn or JobServe, with an outside chance of somebody in my network coming good.

Why don't you just unfollow?

qh

[sadkingbilly]

I absolutely loathe the site and the moronic posts that appear in my feed. I utterly detest it if I'm honest BUT it's been a very good source of income for me. My last contract for example netted about half a million pounds, and that was from some random 'head hunter' approaching me with a role. I suspect my next role will either come from LinkedIn or JobServe, with an outside chance of somebody in my network coming good.

aye, - right.

[SussexSeagull]

You can just ignore LinkedIn posts, although amongst the rubbish there are jobs and some quite interesting stuff which just gets crowded out by the algorithm.

There is a copywriter on there called Joe Emery (I will use his name as he is keen to promote it) who has been doing a hard luck story about not finding work that has apparently been seen by 11 million people.

He still doesn't have a new job. Says it all really.

[oliverson]

Why don't you just unfollow?

qh

i've tried unfollowing people, flagging suggestions as 'not interested', etc. but I keep getting the same old subjects coming up, usually AI-centric, vibe coding (whatever the hell that is), React, newbie coding statements, advice from developers who've got about 1 years experience, probably gained from some online code camp, WFH balance / polls. Trouble is, I have to sift through it all, just in case that one golden contract possibility is in there.

[oliverson]

aye, - right.

eh?

3.5 years @ £ x.
I'll let you do the maths.

[Bluenose]

Do these actually exist? I spent a bit of time looking for one, but the sites offering the service just looked like they were preying on folk while they are down thinking their CV is the problem - if anybody here has any links, i'd be keen to take a look

There are a couple of SaaS startups doing it, just do a google. I dont want to paste the google results in here.

[ResistanceFighter]

There are a couple of SaaS startups doing it, just do a google. I dont want to paste the google results in here.

wording was slightly off - meant more as a "has anybody tried anything, had good results and is willing to share?"

The few I have tried after googling were not very good - think they were called jobscan & enchancv and they just wanted money for a sub.