Computer Science on Yik Yak | School / university is a TOOL. We all are surprised when we have an internship or enter industry how different it is. Go back in the fall with a new mindset. Take part time work, build a cool project, learn a new framework, get active on LinkedIn.

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Computer Science 15w

School / university is a TOOL. We all are surprised when we have an internship or enter industry how different it is. Go back in the fall with a new mindset. Take part time work, build a cool project, learn a new framework, get active on LinkedIn.

Anonymous 15w

LinkedIn shill. That entire platform is cursed. Everyone is so fucking fake. Get out of here with this pretentious nonsense. Sure it can be beneficiary to be seen by recruiters, but getting a job should not involve having to use a cringe social media platform to *maybe* land a role.

Anonymous 15w

DMs are on, feel free to ping me with questions

Anonymous 15w

I’ll do all of that except be active on LinkedIn. I can’t stand how fake everyone is on there.

Anonymous 15w

The value of having a LinkedIn presence obviously depends on your role / industry, lots of other ways to get notoriety in tech, but among all the fakeness I’ve found a lot of people who genuinely want to help students / young people succeed. Having a large network just increases the likelihood that when you do want to use it for something (advertising, networking, job seeking) that your efforts are more effective.

Anonymous

OP 15w

“Ping me” oh you really in corporate, huh?

Anonymous

#1 15w

Shamelessly and hopelessly

Anonymous

#2 15w

Check my other comment, but I have 1500+ connections, and it has directly correlated to more recruiters reaching out to me and more offers than my peers. I know people who have gotten jobs either from visibility from or the direct skill of making content (see Alexis bertholf on LinkedIn, making network eng cool again). It’s simply the best optimized way to connect with valuable businesspeople right now. And this is only one way to look at it.

Anonymous

#3 15w

Pretty minimal engagement gets you a lot on the other side of it. I’m not saying you need to post more than once a quarter, but the reality is that it’s so easy to do yourself and there’s so many people desperate for jobs right now that it’s an pretty simple way to up your chances. There’s tons of free tools for auditing / optimizing your LinkedIn, and posting / reposting takes maybe an hr a week.

Anonymous

OP 15w

Also your opinion of what the job market should “ideally” be like doesn’t change that we work in a world where companies like people who can evangelize their brand / technology, recruitment is a cesspool of sales dropouts, and bureaucracy makes nothing logical.