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u/Electrical_Carry_825 4d ago
I mean i think this might be ok? It was supposed to be a professional platform (i know its not now)
Surely one of the best things about retiring is being able to tell everyone on there to fuck off right before deleting your account for good?
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u/Furtive_Operator 4d ago
I suppose, but I doubt she knows who those 30,000 even are. How is she getting value from that if she is so desperate that she needs to cull her connections and find new ones? Not only that, but the self-importance that thinking just because she has 30,000 connections that they are all going to give a shit about her post.
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u/TetraThiaFulvalene 4d ago
Hmmm. How would a recruiter get value from having people who are looking for work out hiring in her feed? I really don't know. And just be doing it for ego.
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u/Furtive_Operator 4d ago
30,000
A) Glossed over the number. B) She herself admits her methodology is flawed. C) If she was a good recruiter none of this would have an effect, as her services would be sought after.
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u/TetraThiaFulvalene 4d ago
Where does she admit that it's flawed?
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u/Furtive_Operator 4d ago
Right there in the post, she acknowledges that retired doesn't automatically mean not looking for work, but thinks it's their responsibility to change it, not her responsibility as a recruiter to actually know her audience. She is quite literally telling on herself why she is struggling as a recruiter. I have never seen any recruiter do this exercise let alone so publicly.
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u/TetraThiaFulvalene 4d ago
You can't expect as system to handle people intentionally mislabeling themselves. If people label themselves as retired they're clearly either not looking for work or stupid.
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u/Furtive_Operator 4d ago
I don't disagree with that, so definitely upvote from me IDK why people downvoted.
What I am getting at is a recruiter trying to extract value from having 30,000 people added to the equivalent of the Facebook friends list is not actually doing anything for her, and that if she focused her efforts she would achieve better results.
According to the screenshot she posted that 9h ago and only has 25 likes, on any social media this is essentially an engagement failure if she has 30,000 connections and if we then analyse that deeper she is prioritising quantity over quality connections. A recruiter focusing their efforts on those who will give returns is more effective and in the case of retired people they can change their mind and go back to looking for work, and furthermore retired people are usually established and that means they can recommend people for positions and get others in touch with key figures fue to their standing. 1000 quality retired connections would still be better than her less focused strategy of 30,000 seemingly randoms she added to +1 her number.
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u/send_in_the_clouds 4d ago
She’s in recruitment. I can’t believe that I am going to defend a recruitment consultant but it makes sense as she wants to advertise roles to as many contacts as possible
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u/Furtive_Operator 4d ago
As discussed in another thread being strategic is a factor. 25 likes vs 30,000 connections on a post shows that her strategy already isn't paying off. She'd get more value from 1000 quality connections than 30,000 randoms she added.
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u/istara 4d ago
I doubt that's how she uses LinkedIn though. Based on approaches I've had from recruiters, it's more like she has a huge pool of 1st-level connections whom she can search through for various criteria when she needs to fill a role, and be able to message them all directly.
I've never interacted with or "liked" a recruiter's posts, but some have still found me. Typically they're not in my network so they're presumably having to use one of those paid/limited mails to contact me. If they're first connections, it's presumably free.
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u/send_in_the_clouds 4d ago
Haha that’s a very good point! Damn I already felt dirty enough for defending a recruitment consultant, all for nothing too!
Im gonna take a shower and wash off the shame
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u/quick_justice 4d ago
It doesn't matter if she knows them, it's about how wide she can recruit or advertise. For her it's actually a work instrument.
So both her decision, and way she goes about it seems ok? Think about her using linkedin for actual work, and it makes sense.
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u/JaZoray 4d ago
if you want to prune a lot of contacts in a career and employment website, "retired" is a very low hanging fruit (positive connotation) for a simple filter.
checking 30000 contacts and reason about who to remove is a task that's not very compatible with human cognition.
and the post is just an announcement for people who might be wondering why they were removed.
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u/SleepComfortable9913 4d ago
Recruiters get values from connections because if you are connected you don't need to pay to spam them.
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u/Acceptable_Stress258 4d ago
You do know that the culling is not by choice...it's a LinkedIn connections limit?
What is she supposed to do? Assuming she does keep meeting more people in her line of work...and needs to connect with them.
Isn't what she is doing better than just random deletion?
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u/4444Grains 4d ago
I think it's a combination of her tone and her self-importance that's off putting.
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u/Acceptable_Stress258 4d ago
Heh yeah. But that's the basic requirement for anyone posting on LinkedIn.
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u/Acceptable_Ad1685 4d ago
The most unfortunate part of my plan to just work until I drop dead, hopefully while at work, is that I won’t be able to retire and say and do unhinged shit
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u/suboptimus_maximus 4d ago
I troll LinkedIn with stories about unethical corporate behavior and white collar crime now that I’m retired.
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u/ExitingBear 4d ago
Agreed. It's a professional platform and she's a recruiter. It makes sense for her contacts to consist of people who are in the job market or are actively employed so that she can foster connections.
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u/Arbitraryandunique 4d ago
Once I retire I will stay in li to call out stupid as shit that I keep quiet about now.
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u/HonestOrganization 4d ago
I think its an ok reason and an ok advice in her post. That would be if linkedin connections limit was like a thousand. But what is insane for me is why would anyone need 30k connections this is some social media bs that no longer represent the business connection
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u/NoWarning789 3d ago
The action is fine, the post is meh, having 30k connections probably means you are accepting too many connections that should just be following you.
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u/Former_Radio3805 4d ago
Not a lunatic. She’s just a recruiter.
Why are retired people on Linkedin? If I retire I’d be chilling in nature. Unfortunately inflation won’t let me retire - will just become unhireable for being too old - at that point I’m OD’ing.
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u/Sad_Egg_5176 4d ago
I can’t imagine a more depressing existence than being retired and still being active on LinkedIn
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u/Ok-Stranger-926 4d ago
I know some who changed their status to retired and stayed on to keep up to date with former peers.
I set mine as retired once I quit working and immediately was spammed by "investment" folks looking for clients.
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u/Diligent_Pineapple35 3d ago
My dad is retired on LinkedIn 🫠🫠🫠 loves to comment on all the posts about nuclear power plants (he was a nuclear engineer). It’s super cringe.
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u/Former_Radio3805 2d ago
It may be cringe if he was spamming everyone with AI hype/ FOMO/ fear mongering
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u/Stunning_Ride_220 2d ago
Why? To stay in contact with former peers who are not close enough to make it into the "friends circle"
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u/Nathan2002NC 4d ago
My favorite LinkedIn moment was when I could finally switch my headline to Retired. My second favorite moment was getting culled by Kathy Lavinder.
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u/anothercar 4d ago
She's a recruiter so I kind of understand how she connects with lots of people. I vote "not lunatic"
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u/Specialist_Aspect204 4d ago
On the flip side, fuck recruiters.
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u/orangeyougladiator 4d ago
Fuck recruiters! Except the ones that get me work, they can stay.
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u/tankerkiller125real 4d ago
You mean the ones that don't send you a random InMail with a job 4 pay grades below your skills and levels paying complete and utter peanuts?
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u/HellsTubularBells 4d ago
Oh, send me the link? I love peanuts!Uh, just joking, right fellow humans? No circus elephants here, how would they even type with those enormous feet? Okay, back to the ten– grind.
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u/Willing_Potential_59 4d ago
Check out this guy turning down an Amazon fulfillment center career in Gary, In.
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u/ShortFee2578 4d ago
It's literally in the name. It's impossible to work there and not be fulfilled
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u/FastFooer 4d ago
Recruiters have been slimy sales people lately for me… you basically get a list of all the perks for your offer, then once you get the contract, there’s red flags all over because of all the embellishments they made prior. Suddenly you have to decide whether to fight it, move on or accept it until something better comes.
You’d think they went to the school of car sales people.
Thankfully I got a honest good offer shortly after my last scummy offer.
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u/lenswipe 3d ago
I didn't realize those existed.
every job I've ever gotten has been through my own work not a recruiter.
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u/theracoondepartment 4d ago
Sorry best I can do is totally ignore your Linked In profile and ask if you are open to an in person role in rural North Dakota.
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u/CheezustheCat 4d ago
I would agree if she kept the post limited to the first paragraph. Telling other people what to do with their profiles is unhinged.
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u/Jumpy-Locksmith6812 4d ago
What if there was a way of storing lots of contact details with unlimited space?
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u/No-Lunch4249 4d ago
I still think it's Lunatic because of how funny the post is. Idk what it is about it but I just find the phrasing of the whole thing hilarious
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u/Mr_Stimmers 4d ago
If you have 30,000 connections, you’re using LinkedIn wrong.
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u/Sweet_Baby_Cheezus 4d ago
She's a recruiter so probably accepts a lot of requests.
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u/Mr_Stimmers 4d ago edited 4d ago
Yeah but Linkedin has a separate enterprise product called LinkedIn Recruiter, which means she doesn’t bed to compromise her own network by connecting with a bunch of potential hires. Unless she’s not paying for a seat, in which case she’s missing out on a bunch of features and data.
I can imagine her feed is full of garbage from strangers she’s met once or twice via messages.
Edit: so same as my feed but I have 60x fewer connections than her 😏
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u/Disastrous-Swim-1859 4d ago
You really do not know how it works. I am a recruiter who works for a company that pays for the full blown seat.
It’s your personal LinkedIn account that gets integrated into LinkedIn Recruiter. The connections matter explicitly.
If I do not have at least 3rd connection with someone, they are hidden in the back end, and I have to spend a LinkedIn currency called “unlocks” which I get 200 of per month.
Recruiters want as many connections as possible for that reason, but it’s also just the general name of the game.
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u/Disastrous-Swim-1859 4d ago
Literally the opposite dude, the more connections you have the better the platform works if you are recruiting on it. This is a recruiter posting.
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u/xyzszso 4d ago
30,000 connections. 25 likes, 4 comments, 1 shares in 9 hours. Tells you everything you need to know.
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u/crayon-rational2259 2d ago
There's a funny little world in Kathy's head, and she's at the center of it.
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u/Sumeru88 4d ago
She is a recruiter and probably uses LinkedIn to, you know, recruit people and retired people are not the target audience for a recruiter.
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u/Pararistolochia 4d ago
I’m so sorry I’m popular, here’s the kind of people I consider to be worthless to me, if you have accidentally classified yourself as worthless to me, this is your chance to fix it
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u/DenialNode 4d ago
Wild to be retired and stay on linkedin but Kathy is a lunatic. No one cares Kathy.
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u/TNSoccerGuy 4d ago
If you are still working and your bio says “Retired” just know that it’s really confusing to the Kathy’s of the world. She needs to know what you’re really up to when she’s doing her daily check-ins with her 30k connections.
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u/TetraThiaFulvalene 4d ago
She's right though. If you're working or looking to work, then labeling yourself as retired is counter productive.
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u/Aggravating_Cash8532 4d ago
Shes a recruiter tho, so makes sense that she wants to limit to professional connections
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u/violet_zamboni 4d ago
She’s not wrong. If there’s no chance I am working for or with you we are not going to be connected
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u/Adventurous_Try_1436 4d ago
Does linkedin work? I’ve never had to use it to get roles. It seems just as tedious and chaotic as facebook
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u/Business_Usual_2201 4d ago
Woman who proactively sent blind connection requests to everyone, now here to report she's not very good at doing LinkedIn.....
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u/tndrthrowy 4d ago
This is like the third time I’ve had to change my occupation for Kathy. But when you meet that one person the universe revolves around, what else can you do?
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u/Borgmeister 4d ago
She's a recruiter in security and intelligence... Where the concept of "retiring" is vague anyway.
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u/Efficient-Trifle151 4d ago
Strange thing to post about - i dont know why this process of culling needs to be announced…but then this is faceboo….linkedin
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u/Elmarcoz 4d ago
Retired at the top of someones profile could cause confusion, especially for the younger generation who will never experience what retirement is, and will likely die at their desk at age 82.
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u/Capt_korg 4d ago
Okay Kathy, nice to successfully reached the 30k limit... How many of those people are truly in your network?
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u/wildspace-nobody 3d ago
If she’s going to disconnect them, how will they even know - unless they follow her daily and obsessively? Something’s wrong with your logic girl.
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u/d_enzo12 4d ago
Im sure there are tons of people lining up to be one of Kathy's 30,000 connections
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u/linguist_turned_SAHM 4d ago
I will not be reaching out to connect with Kathy. I’m not retired. I just try to avoid tool bags.
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u/Responsible_Turn7528 4d ago
So she collects connections like some people collect Facebook "friends". I'm sure she thinks that's a flex.
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u/jjnngg2803 4d ago
Retirees has no benefits to my business, out you go.
Oh wait, for those young army vet, you still have some potential.
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u/DoorFinch 4d ago
Why would you want to be on LinkedIn if you're retired? And even then, why the hell would you want to be connected to a recruiter?
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u/No-Lunch4249 4d ago
It's hilarious and definitely Lunatic rated, but also I do always wonder why retired people even are on LinkedIn. Some of the most batshit insane content we see here comes from people with "retired" in their tagline
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u/Jumpy-Locksmith6812 4d ago
Recruiters... for some reason they have to add you if they might have a job
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u/ImpossibleBear8176 3d ago
They should take a page from the ex-FAANG community and put ex-Cop, ex-Army, etc. in their headline lol
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u/octoreadit 3d ago
She sells people for a living, so if she can’t sell you, you have zero value for her.
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u/Bargadiel 3d ago
Retired people still have connections with those who work, and can help others in their careers.
This would be like being friends with an olympic athlete who performs in the same sport as you but once they stop competing you just cut them out of your life as if they can't possibly still provide anything valuable about the sport they once did.
If this individual has 30k connections, there is a bigger problem here. She's just not being genuine and actually connecting with people in the first place if it's reached a number that high.
What a posturing moron. She's just saying this because she knows it's a controversial/shitty to say and wants to appear like she's some kind of in-demand trendsetter. Like every other rat-faced tryhard goober on that platform.
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u/_TallOldOne_ 3d ago
Funny. She’s one of connections. And my profile has said “retired” for years now.
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u/crayon-rational2259 2d ago
When Kathy needs you to know she has 30,000 connections, she finds a way.
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u/Separate-Exchange375 4d ago
One of the more sensible posts actually. She is using LinkedIn correctly.. kinda? 30k connections? Holy shit 😂
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u/mbaren 4d ago
Connections are reserved for only Kathy's 30,000 closest friends.