Comment by pbasista
8 days ago
> 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.