LinkedIn locked me out of my own account. The only way back is through Persona — a third-party service that wants a photo of my passport, a scan of my face, and a recording of my movements (liveness detection: turn your head, follow the dot, so a still photo can’t stand in for me). The stated reason: “unusual activity.” The real reason, of course, is big tech spearheading a movement toward absolute control over people.
Same bullshit happened to me when they froze my account after their AI bot flagged me with on false positive for “discrimination” (I’d posted a job with a legitimate language requirement).
They then made me go through some humiliating ritual of having to write them an email with a written promise that I wouldn’t break any discrimination rules, which I hadn’t done to begin with, but the support clown wouldn’t reinstate my account until I’d done their specified grovelling.
Why did you not refuse and find a new place to do business that doesn’t use computer programs to police their sites?
If you’re a salaried employee who isn’t currently looking for work then this might be an option. If you’re a consultant who relies on networking then LinkedIn has a near-monopoly. If you’re not on it then potential clients will assume there’s something wrong.
Probably because they want to actually make some money.
By all accounts I’ve heard, linkedin is garbage. No one finds work there.
And yet 99% of good paying jobs won’t even consider you if you don’t have a LinkedIn. You don’t have to apply on there, or even be active, but you do need one.
I used to host my own professional portfolio. Maybe it’s time to do that again. It was just easy html that I whipped up in KompoZer.
It used to show publications, training certificates, codes, visualizations of analytic codes, hobbyist builds, etc.
That’s news to me I haven’t heard that yet.
I do know a lot of corporate jobs make you hand over social media handles and passwords to do a deep dive on you, then run all your information through threat detection software to see the likelihood that you will develop a case of morals or patriotism that would lead you leak details of the company. That was going on 15 years ago, can’t imagine how bad it is now for banks and the like.