Recruiters expect me to have a LinkedIn link on my resume or portfolio, and they expect job seekers like myself to be searchable on the platform as well. That is no longer an option for me. Besides replacing my LinkedIn URL with my home page on my resume, if that even matters, where do you think I can promote myself as a technology consultant now that I no longer exist on LinkedIn?
Onto LinkedIn customer support, Premium users have access to online chat (crazy that support is tiered like this, but I digress...) and that is reputably the best way to restore suspended or banned accounts. Not sure how you get from banned to paid, but that the best route in.
Please see our User Agreement and Professional Community Policies for more information.”
I've never seen this before.
Either way, in every city there is only a finite number of recruitment agencies each of whom will have their own internal CRM of candidates. So just go on their website, find someone who works there and ask to be put on it along with your skills etc
Also just build relationships with recruiters. It's always a smart thing to do if you're planning to have a long term consulting career.
None of these are things which I'd consider definitive, but as part of a set of factors, certainly bring into consideration.
If all employers thought the same way this would be akin to junior candidates having to do so at gunpoint, since they would be unsure whether their relatively thin work experience would be enough to balance out being flagged as a potential fraudster, and where the alternative would be not being able to enter the workforce.
You haven't been around the job market all that much then. I've even seen online job application forms that you couldn't submit until you provided a valid StalkedIn URL.
Linkedin has always been there but never mandatory to find or land a job.
And I stand by my point that you're better off talking with recruiters directly and building that relationship rather than some meaningless Linkedin connect. 100x more so if you're contracting or consulting.
Here I feel we could insist on a compromise somehow, 'Automated bans must be reviewed and responded to within 1 business day by a human, with no templated responses allowed. A clear path to account reinstatement must be provided'.
We can't vote with our wallets, it wouldn't move the needle. We can't act maliciously or illegally. We could possibly raise awareness on mass and organise petitions (I'm sceptical). We could use our networks to pester individuals. We could shame specific people (I notice such a disconnect in some faang employees. E.g. Facebook employees seem blind to Myanmar interference).
The irony of how much power we ostensibly have at our fingertips, contrasted with how little power we have in practice.
Currently, we rely on the teeth of the EU. And nothing else significant occurs from my pov, the troubles just worsen.
How did we get to rely on a _platform_ in order to feed ourselves and our possible children or cats? (with so many options available)
the recruiters which _rely_ on a linked in link or on a PDF are usually generic anyway, mostly...
That aside, you just go to Indeed and apply to a job. It’s that easy. LinkedIn isn’t a requirement.
It's pretty scary all the horror stories one hears on HN along these lines. I wish some regulation would be imposed requiring some sort of approximation of "due process", so to speak, when this happens to people.
Anyway I've never felt it's a requirement to have a LinkedIn profile to get hired as a developer, so the post as a whole is strange to me.
Why do you think this? Misguided/buggy/flawed algorithmic bans seem quite commonplace these days, and increasingly companies have too few humans to even respond to the actual inquiries that result from them, much less review every instance of it happening.
It's possible, but I felt like voicing the general concern regardless because at least some of these random permaban stories seem to be true.
(Sorry it seemed too timely not to make the joke!)
Hope you'll be able to resolve this, or find another way; I do agree that LinkedIn is a monopoly here and you should have recourse as an individual. Scary how Kafka-esque our techno future has become.
I've had a couple of temporary bans over the last few months. No warning or email. No idea what I did. Asking support on Twitter was the most helpful at getting things sorted https://twitter.com/LinkedInHelp
You have seen the r/LinkedIn mega thread? https://www.reddit.com/r/linkedin/comments/15cx1zg/mega_thre...
What all these job profile places lack is a way to specify negative skills, such as things you aren’t qualified in. I don’t want to touch React or Angular or such and have never written Java yet people contacting me about those jobs, because it seems many places are hurting for technical competencies irrespective of tech stack. If a place is too excited, like falling over themselves, to talk about their tech stack they can continue and wait for somebody other than me.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37417397
I can't hibernate because I am in a free trial period with Apple for premium, despite ending the trial. I've blocked the stalker, but I have no idea who is viewing my profile.
It needs to really up its game.
Not entirely related to my gripe, but my observation is that Microsoft's pay-freeze and layoffs of employees seem to be having ripple effects across the org.
They were always known to use dark patterns, and now owned by MS, too sleazy to touch with a ten-foot pole. Good luck.
Had a Twitter/X account for about 14 years (2007~2021) but suddenly someone at Twitter/X decided to permban me out of the blue for no obvious reason.
Again and again I tried to get that ban reversed after Elon "free speech for everyone" Musk took over and they even refused even to communicate back to me, until a few weeks ago they apparently got tired of me. "You broke the terms of service" and that's all.
14 fucking years of good standing and everything is gone. AND I DID NOTHING WRONG.
There are multiple reasons for this. Using one account for both is not desired for the worker nor the employer. Especially if you want to retain your GH profile between employments.
One reason is similar to why you shouldn't run your GSuite business from the same Google account you go on crunk YouTube rants with.
This sounds like the same lesson learned by the @music guy on Xitter.
If someone told me that was their title, I would assume that they were an IT (probably non-developer/engineer) generalist.
Sets up networks, configures hardware, handles purchase orders, etc. Whatever general "tech" things a company might need done that requires a knowledgeable person, but not a specialist.
It's probably time.
