You laugh, but I got my current job through linked in. I started going through old contacts to see if they were in an interesting place with openings, and found one - a guy who had been my VP a few jobs ago was building a new org
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Pandemanium@lemm.ee 2 months agoOof. Soon every job is going to ask “HoW mAnY fOlLoWeRs Do YoU hAvE?”
AA5B@lemmy.world 2 months ago
HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 2 months ago
No, but referrals are still going to be a thing. You’ll also have to maintain a reputation in your industry, especially for senior roles.
You get bad results when you expect that people can self certify what they are capable of doing. Word of mouth is still an effective way to see if someone is a good as they say, and that starts in college.