Linkedin seems to have lost its charm in the last 1-2 years. I'm noticing creators moving to substack but it still doesn't seem to be a 1:1 match. Just like there's Bluesky as a prominent X alternative, have you come across any for LinkedIn?
Not that I know of. It would have to be the LinkedIn before it became just another avenue for self-promotion and advertising for courses, seminars, etc.
Anecdotally, it doesn't appear to be any good for job searching. Lots of un-directed random messages from recruiters, but no real job sourcing.
It seems to be the fate of all socially oriented networking sites. They devolve into yet another advertising, spam delivery mechanism.
It began its first steps down that slippery slope (imho) 10-12 years ago. I only log in when I want to find 'the next job'. You can safely ignore anything that says "add your CV". I usually target mega-big corps, and in that case LI always pushes you to their corporate-30min-per-application systems (keep your CV in Word for easier copy & paste). So in a way it has helped me to limit my efforts to 5-10 CVs, and a couple of them always 'lead somewhere'.
and then some flag is switched and I start getting 'a number of messages' from headhunters that (want to) waste my time. An easy way to be blacklisted by those spammers is to _always_ tell them "I ain't telling you my current $$$ or my $$$ expectations, the effing gig/role/contract has a budget+benefits, tell me what are those and I will respond". That will send those assholes away faster than garlic does a vampire. If they stay, then they mean business and they 'like' the CV enough to talk/negotiate with you.
There are some other 'smaller' ones (Indeed comes to mind) that still stick to 'find a job and nothing else'.
Anecdotally, it doesn't appear to be any good for job searching. Lots of un-directed random messages from recruiters, but no real job sourcing.
It seems to be the fate of all socially oriented networking sites. They devolve into yet another advertising, spam delivery mechanism.
It's called enshittification, and it only affects centralized cervices.
and then some flag is switched and I start getting 'a number of messages' from headhunters that (want to) waste my time. An easy way to be blacklisted by those spammers is to _always_ tell them "I ain't telling you my current $$$ or my $$$ expectations, the effing gig/role/contract has a budget+benefits, tell me what are those and I will respond". That will send those assholes away faster than garlic does a vampire. If they stay, then they mean business and they 'like' the CV enough to talk/negotiate with you.
There are some other 'smaller' ones (Indeed comes to mind) that still stick to 'find a job and nothing else'.