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LinkedIn keeps picking the most annoying features from other social media and implements them into their platform to overload the user experience with irrelevant information and time wasters. 😫 This was supposed to be a functional platform to help professionals talk about work and exchange information and opportunities. 🧠🛒🛠 There are way too many posting trends in Linked nowadays that are driving people away from logging in on a daily basis out of information overload. Everyday it's getting harder and harder to find interesting posts with actual information (not hero stories, not relatable empathetic statements everybody feels forced to agree with), so why this awful Catch-up tab? 🧨 Feels like the utterly irritating "For You" tab in Twitter, designed only to waste more of your time mindlessly scrolling though irrelevant stuff until you find something vaguely interesting. But then your senses are numb already, so you don't pay attention either. Keep the focus and keep the essentials, LinkedIn. This will backfire.

You Please write a comment for me to reply to this linkedin post: ChatGPT ChatGPT Certainly! Could you share more details about the LinkedIn post so I can tailor the comment appropriately? You **Hey 🤚 friends** If your post looks 👀 anything like this 👈, I’m immediately turned 📴 and not 🚫interested 💤 I’ll skip ⏭️ past it because 🫵 you didn’t write ✍️ it. Let’s keep LinkedIn real 🚀💥 ChatGPT ChatGPT Absolutely! Here's a comment you can reply with: "Authenticity matters! 🙌 It's refreshing to see genuine thoughts and personal insights on LinkedIn. It makes all the difference in engaging with meaningful content. Let's keep the conversation real and impactful! 👍" _________ This response acknowledges the importance of authenticity while aligning with the sentiment of keeping LinkedIn content genuine and engaging. #paradox #humor #change

What it was like to look for a job in Belgium with #React and #Graphql skills in 2016 after I left school without a degree… Coding schools arrived not long after and started to do an amazing job advocating for employment of young people who spent 6 month learning new technologies and end up with more relevant skills than other graduated colleagues. This as been possible because of a big shift in IT and the spread of online cursus on easily accesible platforms (I am not one of those who believe RSS is an accesisble chanel to learn). There is a before and after ecmascript5, suddenly, it was possible to create realtively complex apps with a poor knowledge of IT, I had a moment of solitude the first time a colleague with similar salary range mentionned DHCP to me that illustrates this pretty well. I was very lucky to find a great job at Grand Hôpital de Charleroi where I could quickly learn the concepts I lacked and got a big drive to show my worth despite my inability to follow a traditionnal school cursus, because in the next years, too many junior develolers were on the market, most not really knowing what they were looking for and probably not as lucky I was to work for a big organization with highly skilled people. We built a development team from scratch and I got to learn ITIL and basic devops thanks to the extensive help of my sysadmin colleagues, I really loved to take over organisationnal projects one day and switch on software engineering the others, but while it’s hard for me not to code at all, I enventually got to like the organizationnal work more and aimed to evolve, which was not possible there without a degree for very good reasons. I eventually left and realized that while coding schools argument was that you could easily get a good job with IT because of the demand, they made it so untrue by doing an excellent job developping the offer. At some extent, this new generation developped a culture of new vs old, quick iteration of tech solution over mindfull enterprise architecture, opposing good things they knew how to do to good things they had no idea of hows and whys. And that’s how I ruptured with both corporate environment valuing higher education (I don’t even have a secondary) and alternative monoculture valuing its own practices- and I mean money driven, exclusive ones you’ll find in most 3yo startups. That’s how I end up, a non graduated person who love to work in a corporate environment but is hastedly identified as a startup person because I am indeed, non traditional and eager to drive change. My last challenge in life is to decide wether that makes me a #program #manager or an “#intrapreneur”, bot notions being very laughable to their opposed culture while being just the same job imho 😅 I happily welcome any insights :)

when life Begins.

I’m going to tell you something LinkedIn! You control all the power here. Big creators need you to grow. But you don’t need big creators to grow. -You can keep commenting -You can keep liking their stuff -You can feeding the pod monsters 99.9% of them aren’t getting back to you. Well maybe their virtual assistant will get back to you. None of us need that nonsense. You’re better than this people. I’ve grown faster than ever this year. Simply by bringing unselfish energy to LinkedIn. I now only engage with people that engage with me. I don’t even care about: -Their follower counts -What they do for work -How much money they supposedly make I just care that they are kind, caring humans. Oh wait, so there’s people that interact with me. I then decide to be a decent human. And interact back with them. Ding. Ding. Ding. That’s the secret my friends. You put unselfish energy into the LinkedIn universe. LinkedIn will reward you handsomely. We all deserve to be recognized here. We all deserve to be heard here. We all deserve to win here. Trust me on this one.

I reached a big milestone: 5,000 followers! 🙏 Thank you for: - Liking and commenting on my posts - Building meaningful friendships - Helping me learn new things - Sharing funny moments - Having insightful chats I’m happy and grateful for each of you! Here are 15 lessons I’ve learned in 4 months: 1. Look at your feed. 2. Observe and analyze content. 3. Find 5-10 similar creators in your niche. 4. List 10 top creators and 30+ smaller ones. 5. Use tools like Kelo to see their top posts and get ideas. 6. Engage daily for 30-60 minutes. 7. Build momentum with a routine. 8. Make your profile appealing. 9. Pre-create at least 3 posts weekly. 10. Stay active for 60 minutes after posting to reply to comments. 11. Track your progress and adjust your strategy. 12. Learn from feedback and criticism. 13. Be authentic and true to yourself. 14. Collaborate with other creators. 15. Celebrate small wins. Bonus tip: Don’t give up! P.S. If you're reading this, let’s keep growing and learning together! 😊 #Linkedin

From 4 → 5000 followers in 4 months How It went for me? Finally I woke up with 5k followers ( Jaaduuu.... ) I want to reflect on my journey today As I have been receiving questions about my journey a lot So let me spill the beans of my lovestory !! I have been here for more than 8 months 🎈(Strangers >> Hatred stage) First four months? → 5k impressions → Not engaging with anyone → Thought linkedin was boring → Not posting with consistency → Opened linkedin once in a blue moon And 4 followers. I still don't know how? 😅 🎈On 11th Feb'24 (Became friends) My new found interest→The great linkedin From that day, I have not closed even a single day on 0 followers. It all started from → Being interested in the platform → Encouraged by some creators → Nervous before everyyy post → Building a community slowly → Improving post style (Falling in love) Finally, Attracting compliments "You are killing it on linkedin " Now, I am in love with it already!! PS - In which stage are you in right now? What are your relationship goals with linkedin? PSS - Don't just congratulate me. Leave a helpful suggestion. #linkedingrowth #storytelling #followers

1 Week Update: LinkedIn Adventure! 🌈 Just wrapped up a week of daily posts, and Here's the lowdown: 📌 Accountability Boost: Posting every day makes me more accountable, like a daily mission unlocked. 🔄 Consistency Rocks: Seven days of steady posting is like training my brain for consistent effort – it's a game-changer. 📖 Feels Like Journaling: Seriously, it's like keeping a cool journal. Each post dives a bit deeper into my thoughts. Follow Sakshi Tripathi if you like her content! ( Ya vibe match hoti ho ) #linkedin

Nothing comes easy in life and on LinkedIn. I've been on this platform for some time now, but I only started getting active last year in July. Even then, I was posting only stories that I liked and wanted to tell the world. Like most of you, LinkedIn was just a medium of expressing myself rather than offering my services. My account grew a little, but it didn't help me get any substantial results or leads. Then I started offering & promoting my services aggressively. That opened the doors of success for me- - I built my community - I networked with people - I gained work opportunities I was at the peak of my LinkedIn growth when life happened. A personal crisis happened & LinkedIn took a backseat. But the story doesn't end here. I came back. It was tough, but I did. What helped me- - Talking in DMs - Posting case studies - Getting active in communities - Posting content according to my ICP Why this post on a Sunday? Priyanka? Simply because I won't say growing on LinkedIn is easy. But you've got my back. I'm starting a 31-day LinkedIn Content challenge on May 1st, where I will teach what I've learned in my journey here. DM me "Challenge" to take part in it.