Comment by achierius
8 days ago
It's funny since if it were any other platform, it would have collapsed by now. But because we all use it to find work, well, what other choice do we have? Sure, most of us don't post, but we're still clicking on the website, and we're still seeing the feed -- apparently that's enough for advertisers, for now.
> we all use it to find work
For what it is worth, I do not. I have only had an account there for a brief period of time when I was first looking for a job after university. Then, when Microsoft bought it, I deleted my account.
When I was looking for a job afterwards, I had to go on an active look-out. I reached out to 10s of companies manually. I got ignored or immediately rejected most of the time. My success rate from me reaching out to an actual offer was about 3 %. But I guess for an average person that is to be expected.
Looking for any job is easy. Looking for a good job takes time.
"My success rate from me reaching out to an actual offer was about 3 %"
Back in the olden days that hit rate would have seemed quite normal. I can remember mailing (mail not email) 20-100 letters with CVs for job applications. Each covering letter was hand signed and some were personalised for the target. Each envelope would have had something like a 30p stamp on it and running my printer was rather more expensive and slower than now.
That was the early 1990s in the UK.
[Edit: grammar]
These days looking for any job is hard especially if you are looking for remote only.