Family members of mine are in tech, and do work that is in the 2xx,xxx range. One's based, one's semi-based. Both have had low levels of attention to their profiles on the regular but nothing outstanding given that the niche they both occupy is in demand and there isn't a lot of people to fill these seats. They both happen to be white people. One male, one female.
Linkedin has learning partnerships in a program called linkedin learning. Based person was doing some of these... got no real increase in attention. Out of bordem, my based family member completed their diversity training ESG/DIE program on linkedin.
Within 6 hours, literally, she had 8 people from 8 different companies reach out to her and ask her if she was looking for work. The next day, she had another 10 messages. Clearly, completing the humiliation ritual did something to the algorithm to give her top placement in searches.
Based told Semi-based. Semi-based family member completed it, but is male. Still suddenly went from getting no random messages to having 5 in his inbox after 12 hours.
What I'm saying is, play the game if you're desperate but be aware there's a fookin game afoot. I doubt, I severely doubt, anybody who is a recruiter put the ESG linkedin learning diversity bullshit as a requirement in their canvasing searches. But here we go, the company is putting their thumb on the scale for progressivism.
Progressives want you broke, homeless and starving.
(Maybe the boost in interaction is designed to be like a cult's "love bomb" to encourage engagement with wokeshit.)
Hmm. So probably I get de-boosted because every time I'm recommended a "black voice," I block that shit. Every time someone in my network shares some DIE garbage, I mute them.
Happily employed right now though, so not too concerned for the time being.
doing any kind of social media through LinkedIn is your biggest mistake. if you must use it, only use it as a dump for your resume and a place to reach out directly to employers.
Oh, agreed 100%. I typically only log in to respond to recruiters, "I'm good now, but feel free to reach out in the future if you have a good fit." I figure it can't hurt. Then I click the main "feed" out of boredom and quickly get the hell out of there because it's generally awful.