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3 Reasons Why You Don’t Need LinkedIn When Looking for a New Design Job
Actionable tips on getting your next design job.
LinkedIn has been the number one professional social media platform for years. As a designer, you always needed to have an account on LinkedIn to present your resume, working experience, and vision on design. This would be your starting point when you were looking for a new job as a designer.
Yet, in recent times I have seen that LinkedIn is changing. It is turning more into the new Facebook with an increasing number of irrelevant content, memes, and duplicate posts that aim to get as many likes and shares as possible.
Because of this, LinkedIn isn’t the go-to place anymore when you are looking for a job. Nowadays it will require networking and a specific approach to make LinkedIn work for you in your job hunt.
Here’s why you don’t need LinkedIn per se and what to do instead.
There are too many profiles on LinkedIn
LinkedIn has been growing steadily throughout the years. New users sign up on the platform every day.
LinkedIn has over 675 million monthly users. About 40% of them use the platform every day.
With the increasing number of users, it is getting a lot harder for you to stand out. LinkedIn uses an algorithm to populate your news feed to show you what they believe to be most valuable to you. Unless you are able to create viral posts it will be difficult to get seen by many people.
That being said, with the increase in number of users some say LinkedIn is slowly turning into a Facebook look-a-like. How often have you seen the same poll on working from home versus going to the office, that one picture of a pack of wolves, or the same post on priorities being shared onto your timeline?
It is getting harder to stand out on a platform that is growing by the day. This means that it will become more difficult to create meaningful connections on the platform by just sharing posts on your news feed.
