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On Twitter, several users comment on the true use of LinkedIn and whether it works or not to get a job.
Since its launch in May 2003, the LinkedIn social network has offered an alternative to conventional social networks., where Facebook was intended to become a link between loved ones and friends, a balance would have to be generated; Nevertheless, there are a large number of users who still think that the social network does not make much difference to employers.
Maintaining a profile on said social network is the opportunity for these employers to know your profile, and learn about your interests and skills, anticipating that you are the one who contacts them.
Likewise, the LinkedIn platform offers a thousand opportunities, such as being able to meet first-hand several of the CEO of important companies, discover what they are looking for, and be able, as the platform indicates, to socialize with personalities whose work profile is parallel to yours.
LinkedIn has reached a large number of users throughout its almost 19 years of existence. According to what the portal throws Statista, LinkedIn has 645 million usersbeing one of the most popular social networks in the world. The United States has always been LinkedIn’s leading marketHowever, the growing demand in countries such as India and China have caused it to expand and its use to multiply.
Finally, it is pointed out that, in terms of demographics by age, around 60 percent of all LinkedIn users are between the ages of 25 and 34, and only 19 percent are adults under the age of 25.
So far everything sounds great, right? So what is the discussion? Why so much doubt?
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It turns out that having a LinkedIn profile is not the same as getting a job on LinkedIn. The discussion began with a user who asked if the social network had really helped them get a job or if it was just a kind of “public profile to upload their diplomas, achievements, courses they have taken.” As a result of this, several of the users of Twitter shared their experiences when looking for work in the social network.
This is the tweet shared by the user:
How has your experience been on Linkedin? Has it really helped them get a job? Or is it just a kind of public profile to upload their diplomas, achievements, courses they have taken?
— Anthropologist on Jupiter (@AntropologaL) April 20, 2022
Surprisingly, a large part of the comments assured that the problem was not that the social network does not offer opportunities or that companies do not focus on them and continue to follow the traditional model to find workers, but, mainly, it was in the use that users give to the social network:
“If you’re not using LinkedIn to build your HR network, you’re not using it properly. I found my latest jobs because I shared with people in my network that it was already available. The trick is whenever you go to an interview, you ask the HR people for their LinkedIn.” @YukiMX4
“Something I discovered a few weeks ago is that in Mexico as such we don’t know how to use it, some of us only use it when we search, others get aunts and use it like Facebook to only post images of ‘self-improvement’” @SaulMadrigal5
“Linkedin is not really useful for finding a job, it’s like a digital resume” @ItaSabvi
“I get pure proposals from foreigners to ‘be partners’ (my profile is digital marketing) And I don’t like to go in because it depresses me that I see pure unemployment, I call it the unemployment network”. @gabyegb
It did work for me for my current job, you have to spend time keeping it updated and making publications according to your industry or profile, it has also helped me to be invited to events to give talks or the like. @esteusernomurio
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