@vriska don't even joke about that. LinkedIn is the worst social network
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@coolboymew @vriska I don't care if I never get a decent job after college because of it. I'm never using that shit.

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@xianc78 @vriska just use it like any other CV site and apply to jobs. Fuck everything else. Altho' Indeed is basically the best and you shouldn't need anything else. Avoid recruiters like the pest unless you're hot shit, which you won't be after college

Basically LinkedIn is for CEOs, HR people and Workaholics. And maybe, MAYBE, freelancers. Imagine all of the corpo speak, just pictures of people smiling that you already hate in corpo sites and random inspirational bullshit. It's the fakest social media out there

@coolboymew @vriska Our campus is partnered with a job search site called Handshake which is what I'm using right now.

@coolboymew @xianc78 @vriska Got my current job from a clueless headhunter on LinkedIn, so my opinion is a bit more positive. I hear it's especially terrible for anything tech related with lowball offers though.
@Zettour @vriska @xianc78 yeah I'm in tech and I either get constantly get lowball call center offers or senior sysadmin 15+ years required positions where I only did barely one year of it as a jr randomly here and there

Recruiters are a pest
@xianc78 @vriska basically, get a really good internship, tough it out, get hired and attempt to stay there for 2-3 years or you'll get fucked

@coolboymew @vriska I'm in my last semester of college. I was unable to get an internship due to the COVID shitshow. It's straight to the workforce for me. Luckily, my brother is in the same field as I am and can easily help me get a job.

@xianc78 @vriska yeah, connections. That's the second best thing. If you got 'em, use 'em. You'll need it for starting up

@coolboymew @vriska That's pretty difficult for an autistic person like me, but I'm trying my best.

@xianc78 @vriska I have 0 social skills, so yeah, it was hard for me. Took a fucking year to get a job after being fucked by the internship

@coolboymew @vriska It's really hard. I also didn't have time to work on programming projects in my free time due to school and my part-time job. I haven't finished a hobby project since high school and those projects were shitty clones of old Atari games.

@xianc78 @vriska you want those in the future. I'm not a programmer but I know that a good portfolio will do you good at the right places on top of sharpening your skills. I got a programmer friend that does none of this and unsurprisingly, he had a harder time with finding and keeping a job. Thankfully he seems to do ok lately, he somehow landed at some place where people are apparently worse than he is
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Good luck all I've had are lazy boomers and getting fired from entry level jobs. I gave up on college after seeing my friends and my brother spend half a decade there only for NEETdom.

@PhenomX6 @vriska @coolboymew Yeah. Throughout my college career, I realized that college is bullshit and I would encourage anyone to try to find a different path if they can. I only went because my grandparents have invested enough over the decades to pay for our tuitions. I don't know how it would've went if I had to pay for college myself, especially since I didn't have a job back in high school (I was the kid who sold food when the teachers weren't looking, but that wasn't enough).

I wish gifted high schools were more common here. It would at least be a better alternative to college for those who are "gifted", but there seems to be a lot of controversy around them because of their exclusive nature.

@xianc78 @coolboymew @vriska All that it's done for me is allow head hunters to call me every week offering me temo jobs that pay less than half of what I make now with no benefits.
@coolboymew @xianc78 @vriska Whenever I tell them my salary all I get is an, "Oh, well we pay $20/hr" as if I'm gonna bust my ass doing construction work for what I got paid as an apprentice with no experience a decade ago, lol.
@xianc78 @trashionalism @vriska pretty much

Indeed is superior in every way and even has a system to send CVs to some external sites for you, it's crazy
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