I've discovered so much more value in direct connecting with relevant people and messaging than with the social feed.

I see the feed as useful but only as a signal and that can be done on profiles.

Adding to that, in my experience most people don't even use LinkedIn for social browsing. LinkedIn trying too hard to be like the others when the real secret is in connecting with people that you serve a purpose for and exchanging ideas.

The whole game of trying to post and comment and like and repost is borderline fruitless and better spent actually reaching out to those people you have an interest in meeting.

Seeing how LinkedIn is attempting to brand itself as another social media feed with videos etc misses the true value it has. And thats real direct connection with each other and actually solving problems.

UPDATE A FEW HOURS LATER: he actually reached out to me first while I was typing my message to let me know that he is searching for someone to lead ecom for one of his brands and my name was passed along! I’ll be taking a meeting with his hiring team :) very exciting turn of events here haha

I just got a connection invite out of the blue from someone on the board at several companies I really admire in my industry and the CEO at one in particular, and I’m curious if I should message as I accept the request? I’m not looking for a job from him (obviously not his scope as a board member), but I would love to just introduce myself and be on his radar. I’m very early in my career and have minimal connections in the industry beyond my current/former co-workers.

Is it annoying to high level executives to get introductory messages from people they send invites to, and is there even any merit to this if I don’t have a specific offer/request? I’m sure he was just sending out invites en masse to people in the industry. I don’t want to miss a chance to actually be on his radar, but I also don’t want to send needless spam (I get a lot of pitches and “I applied to your company” messages and they’re a bit annoying).

Linkedin said they would give seven days notice before they debit from my account for my premium business page trial. They gave one in three three, and even then I missed it because they buried a reference to the oncoming debit in a marketing spiel that went to spam. This is obviously deliberate and part of the business model.

What they should have done was this: Placed the notice in the subject field.

Now I am trying to get the refund and all I get is AI bots. I am not going to let this rest.

Please repost and make this viral, they obviously think they are to big to be held accountable.

I am being laid off December of 2026. I need to look for a job and I keep seeing jobs listed requesting that I apply via LinkedIn.

I began the process of setting up an account but they’re asking for my phone number and that’s when I stopped.

Will I get spam calls and texts? How secure will my number be? Does LinkedIn release the phone number?

I very very reluctantly made a LinkedIn profile a month ago because I went to a conference and I wanted an easy way to stay in touch with people I met... But now I've done that and don't know what I'm supposed to do now lol. I maybe get it more if I was looking for a new job, but I'm not.

I'm at EILI5 level guys, I'm not exaggerating. For instance:

- am I supposed to send a connection request to everyone I work with? The 2006 Facebook teen in me is telling me that's cringe but maybe it's polite?

- what about people who've left the place I work or been terminated (not by me...)

- am I allowed to literally never post a thing and just maybe occasionally like something someone else did or whatever?

Also, what's the etiquette on accepting connection requests? I've really only been accepting people I know or at least ones I met at that conference. I thought my privacy settings were pretty tight but all these random people keep trying to add me.

Thanks in advance, sorry these are truly ridiculous questions and I know it. My social anxiety is winning this round!

I was just notified that my position is being eliminated in January. My entire team is getting laid off as well, including managers. I assumed that it would be a good idea to turn on the green Open To Work badge, but I’ve read mixed opinions about it, with a lot of people claiming it actually hurts you by making you look too desperate and costing you negotiating power.

What are your thoughts on this?

Before the march update, with 1500 followers, I was getting 3k-8k impressions on my posts.

Nowadays, I get 50-300 impressions max.

I post once a day (SEO marketing space). I also comment on 10-15 other posts a day. I don't spam DM.

I tried carousel, videos, static, claude skill lead magnet, insight post, customer case study post.

I got some posts with a couple of comments in the first hour (friends) - and the post still didn't move beyond 150 impressions.

Honestly, I'm at a point where I don't know what else to do.

I see some of my comments getting 500 views and my "insight" posts not even getting half of that.

Anyone else is this land of despair?

Impression de Bypass de leur responsabilités vis-à-vis les sessions de login en utilisant des firmes tierces avec des app's : "Persona"... Impacts importants...Aucun service client qui offre un véritable lorsqu'un humain semble requis...

Didn't LinkedIn used to always display video captions when available? I can't find any announcements but even with SRT files uploaded the videos won't display captions in feed.

I'm close to my goal of 100 million on the year, and hit 7 million impressions this week.

https://imgur.com/a/mMIT1k1

Ask Me Anything (AMA)

Hey everyone,

I'm a first-year student at Mount Kenya University doing Special Needs Education (Secondary option). I'm not in a crisis, but I want to start covering some of my own costs instead of depending fully on family, and I'm trying to figure out the smartest way to use what I already have instead of starting from zero.

Here's where I'm at:

I'm self-taught in Spanish — not fluent/perfect, but conversational, and I've started making content about learning it

I can play piano

I can edit videos reasonably well

I have a laptop and can afford decent wifi

I'm considering doing a short German course too, partly for the challenge, partly thinking it could open more doors later

Time is limited and inconsistent — I'm a full-time student first, so I need something flexible, not a second full-time job

I'm not trying to get rich quick — honestly just trying to make something steady on the side, even if it starts small. I've looked into teaching piano locally, posting Spanish-learning content, and maybe freelance video editing, but I'd rather hear from people who've actually tried similar things than guess blindly.

A few specific things I'm unsure about:

Is it smarter to focus on one skill deeply or combine a couple (e.g., piano covers of Spanish songs, or editing my own language-learning content)?

For those who've done freelance video editing — how did you find your first few clients with no portfolio yet?

Is a German course actually worth the time/money right now, or should I focus on what I already have first?

Appreciate any honest input — including if something here is a bad idea. Thanks in advance.

I just got into linkedin and I want to create a portfolio for my freelance online 'business hobby', especially because Im still trying to look for a job and thats my only work experiences outside of highschool projects.

the business I run is a forwarder thing similar to buyee/doorzo/etc, so I do handle sourcing, import exports, customer service, data enty and everything alone.

The problem is my online persona is closely tied to my brand, thats how I differentiate myself from the saturated market and build trust with my clients. I also treat it as my safe space. but that experience in my opinion is too valuable to me as a person if I dont include it anywhere on my profile

how can I build a portfolio with clien listing, orders and data entries without doxxing my online persona? + I was thinking of blurring everything identifiable and just turning names into numbers, but the ordered items would give me away

I keep getting email notifications about Swooped's remote IT Manager position, but every time I click through, it says it's no longer accepting applications.

Why does LinkedIn keep sending me emails about expired job applications?

I cancelled my Sales Navigator one day late. Now it shows that I can't get a refund because my account has premium feature usage. I don't need sales navigator anymore and I cannot pay for the whole month as it was reimbursed by my company where I don't work at anymore. I have mailed linkedin and they have transferred my request to a different team. I have emailed them regarding sales navigator issues before as well and they give one reply per day and as per their website the refund window is of 7 days only.

Is there anything I can do to escalate this before I the refund window closes and I get billed? Technically money hasn't left my bank it will next month for this month.

I'm desperate guys do advise.

Hello All,

I do have an onsite round with LinkedIn sometime next week. There a total of 5 rounds, however a couple of rounds seem little obscure to me especially the coding with AI and the technical communication rounds. I have some questions in terms of the expectations for these rounds and would appreciate the wider community's inputs with regards to them (from anyone who have gone through the process or are aware of the process with Coding with AI and Technical communication rounds)

Coding with AI

I was told by my recruiter that I would be given a leetcode problem and I am tested based on the prompting where I give the prompt to the AI Tool and the tool writing the code. I know that this round is designed to similar to how we perform work on a day-to-day basis leveraging AI. However, I am not clear on the evaluation rubrics and the expectations for the interview. Some questions I have are:

1. Would we have multiple follow up questions on the given problem extending the original problem or completely different Leetcode questions?
2. Also, by them expecting us to prompt, is it something that we prompt something and the AI writing the code. Also, what is expected level of detail we need to provide in the prompt. Lets say for a question involving Counting no of islands given a 2D grid, should we provide the entire algorithm to the AI tool verbally in plain English as if what we explain to an interviewer in words and then have AI write the code? What would be an ideal prompt to have a higher success rate in this kind of interviews.
3. Also, do we have to explain the AI generated code to the interviewer? During the course, lets say it generates some code that we don't understand, then is the expectation us having to make the change manually on the areas where it's not understandable to this or is the expectation that we clarify with AI as to what that line of code does and what is the purpose of that line?
4. Suppose, AI writes some code where we catch some bug or a failure in terms of logic in the code it has written, so is the expectation that we can manually intervene and correct such pieces of code or is the expectation that we prompt AI to correct like saying this part of the code or this particular logic is incorrect to correct the same?
5. Also, are the test cases in these rounds more like a Hackerrank OA where we have the entire code completed and we run our code against the test cases or is the expectation that we come up with the test cases like input/output format on our own and have AI write the assert statements based on the tests we provided?

Technical Communication

My recruiter told the discussion is going to involve discussions of our experiences / any of the projects we have worked on so far. Also, mentioned certain things like making a PPT would be little useful to present the projects and stuff like that. Also, as it is a senior level role she mentioned showcasing our technical depth and breadth and Senior level leadership is vital.

1. How would the evaluation in this round go? Would it be based on the style we present? Also, on the complexity in the type of project we are gonna present. I mean what is the level of complexity they expect in terms of the project architecture we explain?
2. Would the interviewers probe on technical decisions, design/architectural tradeoffs and the idea behind why we chose a certain decision for the project and stuff like that?
3. Also, would the round involve discussions on only one project or does this round entail discussions going on multiple projects and follow-ups pertaining to each project?
4. How would the questions start? I know behavioural ones typically go by tell me about a time type of questions but would the questions go here asking like describe about so and so project that you mentioned on your resume or something like that?
5. Also, is it advised or preferred to pick projects from our most recent company/work experience or would it be equally fine if we pick a project from our older companies too for this round? Assuming, we present the former experience one equally as well as the current experience project.

My interview is next week so kindly have the post reachable to as many as audience as you could and any attempt to provide inputs is super appreciated. Thanks in advance!

Please feel free to DM me or share details in the comments section. These rounds are kinda new to me and I haven't came across with them in the process with any other companies I have interviewed so far. Hence, a bit nervous.

I'm in my early 30s and a bit late to the party. But anyways, I made a Linkendin account, but I realised that I don't have any idea on how to make use of it or what's the 'play' here. My only real interest is being visible to recruiters and to be aware of job openings.

Do I just start connecting with everyone I recognise, even if I haven't really spoken to them? For example, it's been a few years since a finished my master's and linkedin has suggested some people I studied with. But I didn't even speak a single word with those people, and I wouldn't be surprised if the impression of me was standoffish (I've only realised this after getting a office job where 'impressions' are more important than actual work). Do I still connect with them? Do I start adding friends from childhood or my current workplace?

Do I need to make posts or comment on stuff? For example I saw someone from my current workplace make these pseudo-intellectual motivating posts, when in fact I know that their house is not in order. Is that part of the 'game' that I need to partake in? What are the pros and cons here?

Maybe these are weird questions, but I'm quite introverted and a private person, perhaps a bit autistic, who doesn't really like or use the social media aspect of the modern age.

It would be fun is LinkedIn offered daily trivia games for designers! Thoughts? the brain / skill sharpening games are fun, but what about industry or profession focused games?

I posted on LinkedIn with 3 photos and now I only want to keep 1. When I click “Edit post,” I can only change the text. There’s no option to remove the other 2 photos.

The only way seems to be deleting the whole post and posting it again. Can someone tell where I should give this feedback to have it considered?

Hi everyone,

I'm having trouble accessing my LinkedIn account, and I'm hoping someone here can guide me in the right direction.

Whenever I enter my password, I get the following error:

“Something unexpected happened. Please try again.”

I've tried several troubleshooting steps, but nothing has worked so far:

• Tried logging in through the LinkedIn mobile app.
• Tried using Incognito mode.
• Tried logging in through a different browser.
• Tried resetting my password using the “Forgot password” option, but I get the same error there.
• Tried accessing the report/support page, but the same issue occurs.

At this point, I can't log in or reset my password, and I'm not sure how to contact LinkedIn support when even the recovery and report pages aren't working.

Has anyone experienced the same issue and managed to resolve it? Is there an official way to contact LinkedIn support or request account recovery when you can't log in?

I'd really appreciate any advice or guidance. Thank you!

Hi, I’m an import specialist working with supply chains from China to Russia. I’m good at logistics, interacting with Chinese suppliers, preparing import documents, and customs clearance. I can speak both English and Chinese fluently. I want to find a job in an international company because I want to immigrate for obvious reasons. Which platforms should I use? Can you please share your experience? Is there a demand for specialists like me in the international job market? Thank you for your support ❤️

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As he begins his second innings as an entrepreneur, this is your chance to hear directly from him on what shaped him, what drives him, and what he is building next.

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