I’m straight-up not comfortable uploading a government document online. Bite my shiny metal toosh, Microsoft.
Alternative: Submit resumes directly to companies you are interested in and/or use a recruiter. The latter is surprisingly nice. Last time I used one I got lined up for phone interviews with little effort and the recruiter pushed the company forward during the hiring pipeline when the company was being wishy-washy.
The recruiter only gets full payment if you get hired and stay at your job for a full year. (And this payment does not come from you!)
How do you find a recruiter without LinkedIn?
Do a web search for recruiting firms. Find one who specifically mentions they recruit for your industry.
The amount of jobs I’ve gotten through LinkedIn: 0.
The number of people I have found from highschool/college/random person on the street who I can’t find in Facebook: waaaaaay too many. If it didn’t tell you who was looking for you, linkedin would be far creepier of a stalking tool. I mean, shit I’ve found people I’ve only seen a picture of. Now I know where they work, where they used to work, and went to school. By extension I now also know where they likely used to live and at least the general area that they live now (provided they don’t work remote that is).
The more I think about LinkedIn, the more I want to remove my profile.
The #1 feature they won’t add: I hated this job.
They always show industry jobs and suggested connections from all your jobs…if they were human and not interested in maximizing data suck they would have talked to 3-5 users out of their millions and realized people have bad job experiences and want to delete the memory, not be reprompted about it for eternity. Also, even when you decline a suggested person, imagine your worst coworker, they suggest them again later. Fucking stupid robot company
For a grad school project last year, I proposed a Fediverse version of LinkedIn, with the ability to find and hire people for projects.
It’s just in the proposition stage, but I got pretty excited about it. If allowed the opportunity, I might work on it as my capstone project early next year.
That’s something I’d volunteer to contribute.
Lots of answers here but here’s my experience: I was met with the same screen and there was no way in hell I would send any picture of my id over the internet. So I had to create a Twitter account to contact LinkedIn support (yeah they only have support on Twitter…) and I explained to them the situation and they were able to bring my account back up. I suggest you try that route also.
I suggest you don’t deal with any company that forces you to speak to them via 3rd party channels. If they can’t afford an email or phone number…they flat out shouldn’t exist.
Yup, had them lock an account before. Never gave them my info. Had to start a new account and actively work around their fraud protections with fingerprinting. And eventually reconnect. Pain in the butt.
You have zero recourse and no appeal process. Even uploading an ID doesn’t guarantee anything.
