LinkedIn Reviews

I do not have an account with LinkedIn... Never have. So why do I have an account with them. I am retired... (6 years) from the DPH. Just recently started getting e-mails, obviously someone opened an account in my name. Notified my attorney to help get a resolution. This situation is very unsettling.

Linkedin has succumb to the hackers. Why would others even want to impersonate someone else, what a waste of time. I would say to these people, get your own life, a real one. With so many people getting their accounts shutdown because Linkedin is being overrun with hackers, fake profilers etc, that they don't know what's real anymore. So my advice is to not use linkedin anymore and don't waste your life on them. Let divine intervention handle the issue and you just go along your merry way. When a company is as mixed up, and over run as they are, you have to just move on and ignore them. If you are making payments to them, and they have blocked you off your own site, then stop paying them and move on. There are bigger things to move onto in your life/business/career.

Redistricted my account with no reason given. Tried the verification process only for it to not work properly. Unfortunately no longer a positive professional networking site. If you can't directly appeal the decision you are out of luck.

I have a lot of issues with LinkedIn, but the main one at the moment is them paywalling contact with hiring managers. I'd say about 50% of the jobs that I run across online, in general - have hiring agents that cite their LinkedIn profile for contacting them. But if they are in your network then LinkedIn expect you to spend $30 a month to reach out to them. That's extortion.

I was on Linkedlin for many years but was recently banned for no reason given. All I wanted to do was change my email address and ended up getting locked out. I contacted customer service and was told I could either upload my driver's license or fill out a form, take it to a notary and then send it in. I wasn't about to upload my driver's license so I went the notary route and have heard nothing. My husband tried to help, but was told due to privacy they couldn't help unless I contacted them myself. I asked that my account be deleted but have heard nothing at all.

Gave 1 star because I couldn't do a negative rating. My LinkedIn account was banned, and I have no idea why. I received an email from LinkedIn that suggested my account may have been hacked and they needed to verify my identity. I went through the steps and provided my ID for verification and then immediately received a message that I was permanently banned. Then the painful part began.. I was unable to reach anyone for weeks as there is no way to directly contact them if you don't have an account. I had friends of mine with active accounts try to open a ticket and they were not able to submit any sort of help ticket for me or for anything else on their account for that matter. No one could be reached.

I Gave Up on LinkedIn. Since my initial attempts to use LinkedIn in 2016, my experience has been anything but awful. Time and again, I've meticulously provided detailed and accurate information, especially during my endeavor to establish a business profile. Despite all my efforts, I'm consistently met with account restrictions.

We are a part of a Military 501c3 in Jacksonville, Florida and LinkedIn has locked out the Board Volunteers as many of us have professional LinkedIn pages. Unfortunately, LinkedIn's customer service won't accept State Level 501c3 filings as evidence we exist, and with the same name of the person sending the State document listed on the 501c3 filing. Horrible people, to do this to a Military oriented 501c3. Man... Get a life!

This is the second time my LinkedIn Account has been closed. I provided my driver's ID. They suggested my account may have been hacked and they needed to verify my account. It was suggested I use my phone number for authentication. But I could never log back into my account. Next, for no reason, not emailing anyone, and not having any connections yet, someone made false accusations about my character or actions. This is what LinkedIn customer service stated about me, "We've deemed the activity in your account is in violation of the LinkedIn User Agreement and Professional Community Policies. Your appeal has been denied and your account has been restricted permanently. Please see our User Agreement and Professional Community Policies for more information."

I wake up after getting surgery to apply for jobs on LinkedIn and notice the functions were off so I go to my iPad and phone and same. I alert customer service and they suspend my account saying it’s a bug. They don’t fix it.

I kept getting nuisance contacts through LinkedIn so I discontinued my membership over 10 years ago. But I am STILL being contacted by many people who found my information on LinkedIn because I am supposedly still active. I have tried to contact LinkedIn to be removed but the only way to contact them is to log on. When I try to do so, the response is that there is no account associated with my email and I have not found another way to contact them. So I'm on their list forever???

I have no idea how but I was charged for I'm not sure what. I’m not a premium member but was charged anyway. When reaching out to the slowest customer service through email with no help. It’s a ripoff!

LinkedIn is one of those vulture companies who will make it impossible for customers to get any assistance, let alone refund. Be careful with their free trial offer. If you miss to cancel on time, good luck on getting any type of support. No chat, email or phone number available on the website or app to assist with concerns. Not worth the hassle nor the money you will be losing.

I found 3 complete barriers in a company's on-Linkedin job application. Each time the webpage provided no way of answering the company's question yet demanded that I do so. Linkedin provided no way of reporting those flaws. Yet I continued to get email reminders from Linkedin to complete my application. These continued until long after the company stopped accepting applications. The company name was Exarca.

Linkedin may be the worst social site around. Why you might ask would I say this? Let's look at what I see since they were acquired by Microsoft Corp., a company with poorly made products and terrible technology. They are cheap and get infected constantly. They have the worst support of any company online today, and most people don't use their programming language anymore, with only 7.7% of sites using it. Finally, most people prefer stability, and Microsoft Corp. is far from that.

I could have reviewed any of them-They are all insufficient in the information provided to the job searcher. They all put the necessary information towards the bottom of the listing, so you waste your time. They could all put the "key" words right at the top, or in the title. I chose to review LI, because I expected better results & responses from the recruiters, but that is not true. It would be nice if the job board sites had strict requirements for the HR people submitting the job descriptions

Big company and large networks. Provides employee and employer (hiring) professional history and background. High profile employers and colleges can reach you in future by looking at your current profile.

I have been in the executive search business for over 10 years and the CEO of two firms with greater than 10 employees at each. Our new Linkedin sales representative is rude, rigid and does not have a problem solving mentality. His supervisor was worse, not willing to even speak to us. The supervisor sent a curt rude message basically saying take it or leave it. Our last LI sales representative was incredible--warm, helpful, etc. Linkedin is clearly now snubbing their nose at small businesses.

Awful site. Avoid LinkedIn at all costs. Absolutely Disgraceful. You are able to post jobs on there for free. They removed my profile with no evidence provided and I am unable to get it back. I contacted them on Twitter and they have sent me a link to fill in but I doubt the account will be re activated. There appears to be a number of job posted on the platform which are non existent. I received false negative feedback from said companies and when I questioned them about their lies they refuse to reply back to my emails.

I am a small business owner and I am in need of more employees. I posted a help wanted ad on their site. I had to pay for this service, it was very easy to set up from my phone, when I decided to stop advertising I was unable to cancel the posting with my phone. It kept telling me I needed desktop to cancel. I emailed them but no response except the money taken out of my account so I contested the payment and they returned the 60 odd dollars and I thought I paused everything until today when they took $103 out of my account. I had to get a new card to stop them from taking my money. I also didn't get 1 response from their posting. I don't recommend that you use this service

I made a post relating a personal experience about how the economic lockdowns have affected my business. Apparently, LinkedIn saw this as a political post and banned my account for 2 and a half months for "violating their standards." Linkedin has become as censoring as Facebook and other social media platforms in the area of free speech. This is appalling, and is indicative of how China-owned Microsoft is top-down imposing its policies on Linkedin!

This site is designed for professional networking. If you are good at professional networking and follow up, they will block you!! What good is the site? You can have a small professional networking group but if you are actually good at networking, this site is not for you. Especially if they are doing their job & can see all networking is professional & they still cancel you! Extremely disappointing professional social network!

I pay $6,000 a year for a single LinkedIn Recruiter seat. I travel between the West Coast and the Midwest and whenever I attempt to log into LinkedIn from a new location I get locked out of my account. I get locked out of my account constantly, despite using the correct 2-step authentication process they force on me. You can't file a support ticket unless you are logged into your account but I CAN'T LOG INTO MY ACCOUNT to get support. It is the most frustrating experience I have encountered. What exactly am I paying for???

To begin with, I had a paid subscription. They sent me an email saying I needed to "update my payment information" or I would lose my "premium" account... Well seeing I did not want to renew, I did not update this info... Somehow they got my new card info and charged me anyway... Now for their content "Script Nazis" If you post or make a comment on a post, that goes against "their agenda narrative", they will "censor" you or even close your account. This will be done even if you "pay" for a premium account... Nope, they do not refund. They have no clear policy, just a bunch of "word stuff", they will interpret the way, they wish. They censor the truth, when it does not fit their narrative... Hey, but you can open a profile be an "Out House CEO", Be Colonel Urinal leading a squad of Commode Commandos.

Updated on 09/28/2021: The censors are changed daily per the mood of LinkedIn that day. I closed my account for they allow fake profiles and trolls. You are bombarded with sexual harassment but they do nothing. Now a month later and their incompetents continues as I am still getting harassed by their messages daily. They should be charged with all the horrors they put on clients. Sued for premiums on services NEVER rendered. Just an absolutely nightmarish platform. Heed the warning for many actual professional platforms out there LinkedIn is more or less Facebook on steroids.

I have been a LinkedIn member for a long time with a huge network. I have changed my profile picture to my business ethics mascot. They disapproved and blocked my account. Don't waste your $$ on the premium level. I'm part of an investment group of five whom has established a portfolio of gold, silver, Gems, art, among other diversities in a global portfolio. We don't need LinkedIn anyway. Our group doesn't go outside the network.

My company signed up for premium recruitment services with LinkedIn for a year, paid quarterly. When the pandemic hit, I reached out to LinkedIn's billing team, comprising of Francis **, Keelan ** and May **, to restructure the last quarter of payment with LinkedIn. None of them showed any interest or sympathy to help a long-standing customer, while I received an email from LinkedIn saying: "Helping you navigate this time is a priority for us.“ When our business normalized and I wanted to settle our outstanding balance, the billing department ignored my messages and instead of working with me, they sent the outstanding invoice to a collection agency. Really bad experience.

I am a retired 83 year old who does not want or need LinkedIn learning. On May 8th I was offered free "Learning" but never took up this offer. Today I was told that LinkedIn Ireland had taken £24.98 from me by PayPal. Since my so called and unwanted "Free Trial " ended today I tried to contact LinkedIn Ireland to recover my money. As you might already know, however, all the contact details for LinkedIn do not work. I am surprised that LinkedIn has degenerated to the extent that it now resorts to scamming the elderly.

My account was restricted. I contacted customer support three separate times to get this fixed since I never broke the TOS or at least know why I was banned, but I don't think they even know why I was banned. First they told me I was banned because of a "misrepresented identity". After escalation since that never happened, I was then told it wasn't because of a misrepresented identity, but they still wouldn't tell me what part of the TOS I broke. Don't use LinkedIn, they can just remove anyone's accounts for any reason, even if they simply don't want them there.

This website advertises posting a job if employers are hiring. I post to hire a marketer for my medical clinic. They asked me about my credit card information and address, name, and much more. After 2 hours, I found they block my account and asked me to send them my Driver's license photo. I called them more than 5 times and sent the messages and no reply for days. I sent them my Driver's license photo because they have my Credit card and they charge me $21 per day and I can't even log in to the website to stop it. After I sent my driver's license they sent me an email and asking for my passport too. This is a very fishy act. This is fraud to force people to send them their government-issued documents and doesn't let people close their account and they keep the people credit card information and charge them daily for the account that they restricted them.

There is no Help Desk of ANY kind. Options they say they provide Never work - Ex. I don't want to get "Ads", and even though I say I don't want them and yet I am constantly having to block the posters. I'm daily getting deluged with ads that take me 30 minutes to clean out. I get the feeling from LinkedIn that they think they are doing me a 'favor' by sending me ads by people, organizations, etc. That I don't know and don't have any interest in. There is a LOT of political posting on the site and I have begun to realize that Linkedin is run by Democrats. If you post anything or follow anything that THEY don't agree with - you are branded as a "Hater". What are political ads and posting doing on that site anyway???? If you "connect" with someone, they assume automatically that you want to follow them.

This review is about the protection of our 1st Amendment right. I thought about how to write this review over the last two weeks. If you are looking for a professional website that respects your freedom of speech, then LinkedIn is not for you. I have been a member for almost 9 years, in the beginning, LinkedIn was a professional business website that respected its customers. Over the last few years that has changed, and without warning my account was restricted. I do not know the reason why, nor do I care. I have not said or done anything that was offensive or disrespectful. This form of censorship is unacceptable and should not be allowed.

Linkedin is directly responsible for the consistent discriminatory practices on their site by allowing recruiters to look at your picture and not respond to the experience. I have been paying attention and taking names of recruiters that only look at your picture. Linkedin is a partner in this continued effort to discriminate on race, age, weight, etc. Linkedin is only for those whose look isn't that of a minority. Shameful!

After being involved with LinkedIn since its inception, I am banned without warning and with no reason. Horribly run. Pathetic. I have 3,000+ followers and I contributed daily to the information being dispersed, but this garbage happens.

LinkedIn is an amazing website to connect with like-minded people and professionals. You can do a search for a business or a person. I find it really helpful when advertising my business and connecting with people from all over the world. I really like the fact that I can read articles and magazines for free and they're so educational and informative. I’ve made some amazing connections with organizations and was able to network with people and that’s how I was able to find my amazing career.

Great Website. A real industry leader and asset App. I really like their mobile App. as well. It would be greatly appreciated if they could send virtual business cards. LinkedIn spends a great of time and effort in updating its app. and keeping current with the times.

LinkedIn has a great connection network, usually all HRs will be actively searching candidates in LinkedIn, easy to chat with the recruiter. Resume kind of profile is already available to employers. It is easy to approach the companies and get the feedback easily. Easy to search jobs through keywords. One click submission can be done to apply for the job. Candidates can also get brief idea on what company is and what kind of products company develop.

The app is overall good with easy-to-use features, but I still haven't been able to settle a good position thanks to LinkedIn. However, LinkedIn will still be one of the reliable job search sites I will go to in times I need a job in the future.

Overall, LinkedIn operates like a typical job search site. Employers post job opportunities and applicants search for them and apply. Search results will yield thousands of results. Unfortunately, the search results are often riddled with entries that are not related or relevant to the search input. If you upload your resume, the search results will identify if your resume matches the job description. Another helpful feature is the site provides information on how many applicants have applied for a position thru the website. The site provides comprehensive information on the businesses that post opportunities. Allowing the user (applicant) to make informed decisions. One negative trait, the site does not strictly monitor what is being posted, and it allows spam posting (fake, illegal and scam job offerings). It is not my preferred job site but it does provide the necessities.

I love LinkedIn Jobs for the tailored job recommendations and the easy INApply feature. I have actually found a couple of jobs through it. It is very convenient to open your profile up to recruiters and tell your network that you are seeking employment. I like how your profile is shared with those you are applying with, especially since I have a ton of recommendations! If I could change one thing, it would be the same job sent to me over and over again. I get excited that there is a new recommendation and then, when I apply, it tells me "you've already applied". All in all, I often find a better quality job on LinkedIn and would recommend it.

I have used LinkedIn for several years to apply for jobs. I love that I can link my profile to the application. My references, resume and skill set are all in one place for companies to see. I have found two jobs from my search on LinkedIn. It is also where I go to research a company before an interview or deciding on whether it is a good company to work for. I do all of my business networking using LinkedIn. I love the platform. It has everything a job seeker needs in one place.

I came across this survey ironically as LinkedIn is down tonight. Twice when checked, all I get is a blank white screen - no error message. As for a review: I don't care for how just anyone can contact/spam me, even if we have no connections in common, LI has just become a place for unwanted solicitation. They should have a feature where user can screen whether/what type of inquiries they want to receive. I don't care for their search functionality, it's difficult to find someone you have a few details about (e.g. you have a first name, location, and company, it should bring up everyone that fits that criteria, but doesn't). However, it is the gold standard of career sites, and does have a good amount of jobs posted. Networking could be better; LI should sponsor on and offline networking events! Glassdoor is better on the peer reviews and salary info, but they have technical issues, too.

While LinkedIn started as a good idea, it's not really a good place to connect because people try to add quantity instead of substance of connections. I get far too many connection requests from people who work for companies I have never worked for or are just not in my state. I would prefer to connect with people who are close to or in my home town for job prospects and as a sort of reference list.

The website offers enough basic information for user to review. It gives seeker a chance without violating any privacy issues. It is user friendly and easy to navigate. It allows users to offer wide variety information without being repetitive and boring.

Linked in is a great way to network with other professionals and to find people with common interests, and even quite possibly to secure new work. The downside is that many businesses use the site as a marketing platform without much regard for the consumer. At times people may be a bit too aggressive in hawking their products or services. I use the site to post pithy news articles and commentaries about the issues of the day and many people enjoy seeing these articles as I cull them from publications most users may never see. I stay in touch with a small circle of fellow writers and that functions as a support groups. I also share helpful tips.

Sight is boring to use for modern business owners. People I didn't know yes found it to use long term. Boring compared to other social networks. I wouldn't use it for job search. Not the first things that comes to mind on that topic.

I have come into contact with old friends and school peers on this site. It has allowed me to connect on a professional level to do work in areas of my expertise. This is a great opportunity to find new jobs or make extra money with having a second job.

Easy to navigate, can view anonymously. Pretty much user-friendly. Easy to upload documents. Great tool for job search, especially informative of company culture. Can filter with ease, can find available positions uniquely.

The filtering system for looking for a job allows you to look for $40,000 & $60,000 jobs but not $50,000. If you filter for $40,000, you get many jobs that don't tell you what the salary range is. I think it should be a requirement that the company post salary or hourly pay in order to not waste a significant amount of time for everybody. I am also noticing a tremendous amount of fake jobs and fake people with fake profiles are trying to connect. Keanu Reeves was supposedly following me yesterday, but it obviously wasn't Keanu Reeves. It was a fake profile. I don't have a lot of trust in the site other than I think it has some interesting conversations with celebrity advice and the public responding. But as a job site, I don't think it works. I have to pretend like I work for the FBI just to research whether or not a job is actually legit. You also get notifications that someone has viewed your profile. But people can view in a secret mode, and you have to pay money to see who viewed it. But aren't they making money on the back end off of the fake job postings (MLM)?

LinkedIn has powerful network effects. After spending about an hour updating my profile according to their recommendations I started hearing from recruiters almost daily. It can feel like a full-time job but is well worth the effort.

LinkedIn has proven its reliability and being current. Even family has used it extensively. It is easy to use and easy to find someone/thing. To have the availability of this tool to help, makes finding a new place of employment easier and pleasant.

It’s easy to apply on this site. Limited in your search options. Most reliable job listings with most complete job descriptions available. Can count on responses from the job poster instead of your application going into a black hole.

I like LinkedIn but sometimes it gets boring, maybe if more people connected it would be better, also a engine to find people more successfully, otherwise a great site for advertising, not many people on it tho.

Well, I have no basis for reference because all I've ever used is LinkedIn. I joined it over 10 years ago when it was really the only player in the game and it has since stayed updated and relevant and has all sorts of network effects going for it. It constantly surprises me with connections and it is easy to modulate the notifications. It is also easy to upload resumes and it has a handy resume template. Its job titles and job skills also has gotten quite granular and specific. I've not applied for a job through it, so I don't know if it actually works.

Linked is very nice job search for everyone to get started with their career. I personally recommend it, it's a social media platform of jobs which makes it different from its competitors like Monster.com, Indeed, Naukri.com, etc..

LinkedIn is a very powerful source of career options and awareness, However the filtering of letting just anyone apply for jobs they don't qualify in, make the process inundating for hiring managers where they lose the credible applicants.

I like that I can set alerts for certain jobs that pertain to me or my area. The alerts can also really help if you are moving to an area to see the job market. Staying connected with co-workers has also helped build my profile.

I am currently looking for a position that is detailed and well written on the job posting. Sometimes the information provided by the employer is minimum or we need to contact the company for further details but otherwise is a good way to find some local resources.

LinkedIn is easy to find the jobs I am looking for. I also like how they keep me updated of new postings so the jobs kind of find me. LOL. Profiles help to understand the people in the company so I can get an idea if the culture is a good fit.

LinkedIn- The resume builder portion of the site needs to be better. I find the resume portion of the site is difficult to edit and it does not look good. I should be able to tailor that portion to look more like an actual resume. In addition, I should not have to do a second resume on the Company's site when applying for jobs. Once you apply from LinkedIn, the company should be able to get your application and review to see if they are interested in a phone screen.

LinkedIn is awesome place to for job opportunity and meeting up with colleagues. I do both. I think it’s amazing tool and I enjoy it. You put your resume and professional skills and profile for all to see and bigo call keep coming in and in and sometimes you can even do a interview online.

The real issue with this site is that if you do not put out your personal information and have many friends registered, you rarely get job notices. I personally do not like the idea of posting a resume for everyone to see when there are so many safety issues and Internet hackers out there.

I find LinkedIn easy to use and up to date on their postings. Once you have loaded the all your information and resume, it was easy apply, attach and answer a few questions. Easy to track who you have applied with.

LinkedIn is a great website to use in your job search and much preferred over more impersonal sites such as Monster or Careerbuilder, which receive more applications - many unqualified - than they can handle. This is because your own LinkedIn account starts with people you know and who know you. They have worked with you and can back your abilities. They can even refer you to positions that may not yet be public knowledge, which is needed in these competitive times. You can also look for contacts for jobs you’re applying for that your own 1st tier contacts know and could connect you to. It’s always better to know someone at the company you’re applying to! If you’re a qualified candidate, using LinkedIn will be a much more successful way to obtain that new position you've always wanted.

While I am registered at LinkedIn I don't use the site. If I want to congratulate a friend on how long they have worked, I will do so in a more personal way than LinkedIn offers. Periodically LinkedIn will tell me that my profile was searched a couple times in a week. I will get emails wanting to know if I want to apply for a job based on such searches. Most often the jobs that are suggested are too far out of the bay area to be of any interest. I am more interested in staying in contact with people based on who they are, rather than just what they do for work.

Easy to use, able to network, was able to review jobs and companies. I actually used this site to help others with job searches and connecting with others of similar positions and from same schools I attended.

If I were seriously job-seeking, I would use LinkedIn. They have researched my qualities and send me messages about possible job offers periodically. They also offer excellent training for any type of job that I might be considering.

The site often sends jobs that are high level professional and are suitable for everyone. LinkedIn is a great networking site for people looking for job leads in their field. You can also join groups and share job leads. It is also a great place to get recommendations.

LinkedIn is Awesome. One feature I wish they would change is allowing you to see who’s viewed you - how else would you know what kind of attention you’re attracting? The feedback would help you tweak your page to get the right people looking.

LinkedIn is a great resource for job-seeking and networking, but there it's not living up to its potential. I think there should be Zoom interview capabilities, more interactive application processes and more reliable searches.

Some of the recommendations miss the mark, but I like the features they use such as telling you where you'd be a top applicant or how many people have applied already. Also, it is interesting to see whether and how many of your connections work there.

This particular site opens up numerous avenues to advance your network. Networking is an important part of job hunting and putting your accomplishments on display. I have met many interesting people and companies.

Do not like LinkedIn. They send emails that x-amount of people are looking at your profile and do not tell you WHO. Waste of time to know someone is looking but unable to reach out to them and connect if desired. They do make the option available for extra $ you can see who it is.

This company is extremely professional. I appreciate the level to which this company maintains its reliability, courtesy and information. So many helpful and insightful pieces to read and take away from.

The format is good as far as my profile is but I'd like to see more unpaid premium features. It's easy to build my network and find other contacts in my industry. Unfortunately it's not easy to filter sales pitches out from job offers.

I've had a great deal of success using LinkedIn and am easily able to find jobs. I like that you can search by title or company. I also like that you can research the company and employees through the same site...lots of ways to learn more about the offering. One feature I'd like to see is pay range for each job offered.

Linkedin is a robust job searching tool. So many options to search with and very informative about all the employers who are hiring. Most of my interviews have some from here. I got my most recent job through Linkedin.

I like the social aspect of the site, it allows the future employers to see what you've been doing, who you know, and what you know. The more active you are on LinkedIn, the more presence you'll have in your industry.

LinkedIn has helped me build my professional profile to set a good foundation for me to join the professional world. It gives me timely information on hiring firms and positions. The job recommendations are closely related to my personal preferences as well.

I like LinkedIn because it's a well designed platform. Easy to apply for jobs, easy to network. Offers professional services for those job seeking. Only negative is they can tend to sell services too often. But overall very happy with them...

I like LinkedIn in that it allows me to stay connected to old business associates that I would have otherwise lost track of. The search functions are just average and I'm not a big fan of it continually trying to sell me its education programs that sound like scams. But it's worth getting on to contact people who once knew.

I highly recommend everyone to check out LinkedIn especially if you're searching for employment. Even people that are already employed can benefit from this website and what all it has to offer. It is very similar to a social network but one that is focused around jobs. It is very easy to connect with others individually and as a company as well. With LinkedIn you can find employment by searching the available jobs posted and applying to them. Between the specific categories and the filters available, searching for any job, anywhere is super easy and it actually has a lot of legitimate opportunities available.

I have not been in the job search market for quite some time, but Linkedin is the preference for corporate/executive recruiters. You can use Linkedin to connect with a particular company and with their recruiters or HR professionals. You can find other people that work in that company and you can see if that person is connected with you. If so, that person can put in a good word for you as well. Plus, job seekers can read all about the company on their profile. I think it benefits both parties (job seeker and employer).

LinkedIn needs a facelift overall but more so they need to be more proactive in their updating. A colleague passed several months ago, & despite my own & mutual contacts reaching out to them about this we continue to get updates about his 'work anniversaries'. This is needless and potentially hurtful to those who love and miss him.

I have been using LinkedIn for a couple years now, we all do at my workplace. It’s a great tool for many reasons. Social networking, job opportunities. I know a few people who have got jobs from this website. I myself have many times local and nonlocal. Many teaching tools also jobs listed that don’t require a degree.

Does not help me find work at all unless I have a premium subscription. Then I have some leads come in. Apparently, this site setup only to help if you are a premium member of LinkedIn. How can this be changed?

LinkedIn has some of the better "refinement" features in your job search but there are some missing elements too, more so in the "navigation/set up" of your job search. A great benefit of LinkedIn is to be able to see if you have any contacts who currently or in the past worked for the company you are applying for a job and then reach out to that contact. For other companies, they ask a lot of questions for the application that are "automatically filled in" with LinkedIn by virtue of your LinkedIn profile. For LinkedIn and "all" job search sites, there are way too many job leads sent to you that are "so far" removed from your interest and/or qualifications... these tend to be jobs that are "way below" your qualifications rather than "above".

Versatile site. Great way to network and showcase talents. Able to source prospective clients and candidates. Links to groups for current events updates. Able to connect with and follow contacts to increase network.

The only problem I've had is in updating my resume. It could be a bit easier. Once you update once, though, you've pretty much got it. I like the option some listed employers offer to apply with my Indeed resume.

There are a lot of opportunities in my field of real estate listed through the LinkedIn website. I found that I could easily review the requirements for this opportunity and decide whether or not I was interested to apply. I was able to also research the employer.

Is a nice slick website. The only problem I have is hard to navigate through the job postings area and trying to narrow down keywords of what kind of job you are looking for. It gets frustrating very fast, that I just end up leaving the site.

I enjoy using this site to keep up with my industry's new innovations, as well as the accomplishments of people I am connected to in my network. I also really enjoy the ability to see who has looked at my profile. Networking is so easy on this site!

This site seems to me to be nothing more than Facebook for employees. It's quite difficult to navigate and nobody I know has ever gotten employed or contacted by anyone through this site. I did, however, have a loony-toon stalker type keep trying to meet me. Yuck.

I have had multiple job offers from my resume being on LinkedIn. Strongly recommend as they clearly have great connections to the right employers. The process of putting my information on the site was smooth and before I knew it I was linked to multiple opportunities.

Has the most up to date jobs and a easily available profile. I like that there are jobs there that are not in other web browsers. You can easily update your resume and have the option of being seen by companies or not.

I started using LinkedIn back in 2013 when I was searching for a job in the health care industry. I was able to connect with many people who could help me, and I ended up landing the perfect job. I still use LinkedIn, even though I'm not actively searching for a new job. It's a good way to stay connected with people who may someday be a valuable resource.

LinkedIn could be a good addition to the standard job search tools. However, you have to do your own due diligence, as with other sites, plus you have to take some referrals and jobs available with a "grain of salt". "Embellishment" is not exactly in short supply these days.

LinkedIn keyword search allows me to find the type of lobbying jobs I want and they are more recent since I can also find through my network the name of a person at the company and ask them for an endorsement or background information about the job. I also notice many Sr. leaders are posting their own announcements to their network about their company's new position. That is a bit harder to find if you don't regularly follow that person on LinkedIn.

LinkedIn is very good company. There are a many platform. Many vacancy is available in LinkedIn. Very good. Very good. LinkedIn word is a unique word. Some time not help us Very good.

LinkedIn is by far a better tool than others. Great tool it just needs to be made updated when a person moves or has gotten a name change, married or divorced and address update I found some info to be outdated when I did a search.

In searching for job opportunities on LinkedIn you have not share too much private data if you are not sure of the company. However if you recognized a old colleague on LinkedIn you have a better opportunity to find the job of your dreams.

I like LinkedIn because it seems to be a bit more personal. You can look at companies and the profiles of people working there and they can learn more about you from your profile. It is also good to see who you both know, which can gives you a little insight into the people they choose to associate with. While not a character reference, you get a feel for the person you may be interacting with. I also like LinkedIn because people who are really looking for someone with your talents are reaching out, rather than the randomly applying to robots who may or may not have their algorithms set for the words and phrases in your resume.

If you have a question, there is no mechanism to contact anyone. Also, I have been a using LinkedIn for years and have seen it go from a good site to one that is only interested in charging for things that should be available to all people.

LinkedIn does not have a very appealing interface. This makes it fall short on making it engaging and actually wanting to participate and come back. LinkedIn does not do a good job of promoting itself.

LinkedIn is more a Recruiting Site than a Job Search Site. By that I mean that it is more a place for Employers to find good prospects, rather than for a Job Seeker to find a job (although they certainly do have jobs posted on LinkedIn. LinkedIn tends to have more upper level jobs than many of the other job sites. It is a site commonly used by recruiters to find candidates to place with specific companies. It is also a fantastic place to get Career Advice. If you are in serious Job Search Mode it is worth signing up for Premium (you can always go back to the "regular, free" level after you land that Dream Job. When I retired from the OneStop, a LinkedIn Profile was rapidly replacing the Resume as the Primary Job Search Tool.

Linkedin just goes through the motions. It pays little or no attention to my background, education, career path, age, profession, etc. It just sends totally irrelevant notices. It also pays little attention to geography. I was notified of jobs in countries where I was not able to live legally. It did not consider my nationality nor where I was living at the time.

Good tool to have but needs a few tweaks to be more user friendly, really hard to focus on a city for a specific job. It's pretty easy to put an application in for what you want, once you find it. I've had pretty good contact with potential jobs.

Feel very comfortable to use this site because it’s give additional detail information about the company and you can see who are working there etc. You can also enquirer directly to the hiring manager which is a plus. It’s give me a feeling more like internal job search.

I like it but I do not like that that they do not tell you who is looking at your profile. I want to know not for the names to be hidden. Otherwise it is great except for the fact that they do everything to try to get you to purchase their Prime Service. I find it too expensive. I know someone who works for Linked In and she loved it!

LinkedIn is great to make contacts with people in the same interest category and job types. I think it is important to network and feel it really helps me do so. I have contacted people in the past who have given me good ideas to make myself more marketable as well as positions open that are not widely known about.

They don't allow a true break down for job searches. When I asked for a specific area, they have only set me up for a 2-3 hour drive to Little Rock, Arkansas. Have tried changing the location several times, and have not received a single update. Wish they could make it more simple.

I am so happy after using it. One of the bestest job website I've seen in my life is this one. I advised it to my family members, brothers and sisters and all of them to use it. I advise all the readers to do use it. All the best.

A more sortable search or filter in the job search field would be perfect. The area feature is great and allows the user to search from local to state in order to broaden the criteria. Skills options would be greatly appreciated which would enable the user to narrow the specific field. The keyword search allows you to look for specifics related to your potential job.

There are hardly ever any jobs in the search function. I think the most I've seen when I searched was maybe 5. I've never got a job or a job interview from what I remember off of a job that was Posted. Also I feel like the platform has allowed people to let it stray too far from profession and people post family stuff and Other miscellaneous things and it's gone very junky.

Lots of cross pollination when trying to search specific criteria. That is I get job openings for areas completely removed from my concentration in spite of the query I enter. If you see multiple postings for the same job, look for the one that is direct to the hiring company. It May give you more bargaining room if they’re not having to pay an agency commission.

LinkedIn is a great platform to connect with other professionals. I consider it to be a safe and reliable source for searching for jobs and other professional contacts with which to connect with. I like the feature that suggests other professionals with which to connect with.

Through LinkedIn I found backers to start my company, which has won numerous awards for its products. LinkedIn is an amazing tool for building up your professional network. LinkedIn keeps you Synced-In. When you're in link, you're in sync, and when you're in sync, you can create your own inc. All you have to do is think. When I begin I beguine with linkedIn.

LinkedIn was the best option for me when job searching. I could set my profile as open for a new opportunity and messages with job options came through my inbox daily. I also had the option to subscribe to a job search and get alerts when new positions opened up. I also had the option to look up certain companies and apply directly from their profile.

For the most part LinkedIn (paid subscription) is my go to Job search app. However the 2 things I find difficult & frustrating are:

LinkedIn is a great resource for job seekers. I've found the job alert helpful but I wish there was a way to customize the area of law I'm looking to practice in. I used other filters such as for distance, level of experience etc. but did not encounter one for area of law specifically. That would narrow down the results and make them more relevant and helpful for me. Whether or not you're seeking a job though, LinkedIn is great for professional development because you are able to follow organizations and people you are interested in, thereby receiving updates from them. I've been able to connect with various people through the messaging system and the suggestions for fixing your profile are helpful as well. I haven't explored the advertisement possibilities and some of the other professional features LinkedIn offers, but I'm excited to do so.

Difficult to assure specificity when experience and education do not fit site builder's perception of norm. This results in a significant amount of wasted time responding to orfindingbest fit positions. I have stopped my LinkedIn account because it was so unhelpful and nonproductive.

LinkedIn gives great options for jobs but you're competing against many others. I have received unsolicited solicitation from recruiters but only a few interviews. I like search engine to find network connections. I hate having to pay for premium.

LinkedIn is the site I use to look for jobs. I find it practical, user-friendly and easy to navigate. I like the way I can see approximate salaries in the field to compare with what I currently earn. I also like the way a random ad pops up and I find information even without putting effort. In general, I think this site is the most popular one and many employers use it to advertise openings. I have had a good experience so far and I plan to continue using this website in the future.

LinkedIn is the best platform at the moment for professionals. They could use a company rating system, but then the companies would not come to them if that was present... So I guess this is a good compromise.

I received notices about jobs all of the time and they are jobs that I am qualified for which is really nice. They are actual real jobs and not a wild goose chase that leads you to other sites that have nothing to do with your job search. I find this website very helpful for networking and finding jobs in government as well as the private sector.

This is how it should be done folks: beautiful UI, free premium trial and no hard selling. Get some education with their learning platform; get some visibility with their easy application button; find better candidates with their skills matching system. Created the account years ago, but was blown away on seeing the new additions. Way to go. Keep up the good work!

I live in a rural area and it would be nice to have an easier way to search jobs near me or have more telework opportunities available. I find it difficult to sort according to my skill sets and experience!/interests as well.

As much as I like the site I do however feel that if you are looking for a employment you should never have to pay to see who is looking at your resume. The company who is looking and they should be seriously looking not seeing who they know and the like.

Linkedin is pretty helpful and it's very easy to navigate. However when searching for jobs sometimes the search is broad and is not helpful so you have to filter out and pay attention at the positions.

Very useful website. A lot of people looking on it. Thoughtful analytics and recommendations. Received many helpful leads and established several productive contacts. Applying for job is sometimes misleading - Linkedin redirects you to another website and does not keep track of this job application.

I'm honestly said this is the best option to searching the jobs. LinkedIn most helpful for me because linkedIn connect the most random people but this is the best helpful for new members. Mostly experience people are help the members and we get the most meaningful advice in the from experience people. My thought is this is the most helpful site I have ever been seen before. This website is thousand times better than other sites because our works simply finished for this site so usually most people don't be like the late but this one is completely different for user. This one is change the all the things.

It is very easy to self promote, search and contact potential companies that are hiring. It is safe to have your information on the site and to renew or update your status or interest. It allows you to be very clear. The inbox invitation is non aggressive and will most definitely help you land your resume in the right place.

Hasn’t done anything for me thus far. It may connect me with people I already know but I haven’t received any job offers from all the years I have been on it. There needs to be more improvement in the area of communication between the company and hiring and connecting the right job offers as suggestions via email.

I would strongly suggest that you do not take up the free trial offer unless you seriously know you want to subscribe. You will be charged for it and you will not be given a refund. It is impossible to reach anyone there. The phone number has a recorded message saying that you can not leave a voice message. I cancelled my free trial and got a confirmation 4 days after the date the free trial was over. They charged my account $631.60 for a years subscription which I am trying to get back. The most frustrating part is the premium is not worth the money. Stick with the basic.

I recently received an email from an unknown party, saying they had my email password and gave it to me. It was the password I use for LinkedIn. So my account got hacked. They were threatening me to send them $2,000 in bitcoin or they would send emails to all my contacts on Facebook and my other accounts stating I looked at porn, that they were watching me through the web cam (which I have covered up) etc. unless I paid them within 24 hours and gave me an address to send it to. I don't resort to extortion at all. I did forward the email to the FBI. LinkedIn is either selling private information or they are extremely lacking in their security. Use at your own risk. I did email LinkedIn so we will see how they handle this matter.

I recently joined Doordash. During the night my bank tried calling me, texting me and sent an email. Someone using a couple names associated with LinkedIn tried accessing money through my account. Did some research and found the link between the two companies. I now have no debit card since it was cancelled and have $6 in cash in my name. Won't get a new card for two to three weeks. Can't contend the charges until they clear my account. Have tried to contact this company with no luck. I suggest anyone connected with this company get out before it's too late.

I found the limitations of advertising my specific type of employment pursuits extremely limited, restrictive and complicated. I could not represent myself accurately. I could not address recruiters directly. I am totally disgusted with LinkedIn's lack of flexibility.

I've was a paid subscriber on LinkedIn for over 3 years. After getting blocked for 3 months on sending messages they wrote me asking to remove all pending contact requests and this would fix the problem. I did exactly what they asked and NOW ... I'm still blocked. I requested a cancellation of my account and a refund of the 3 months of payment. They only returned one month of payment. I've sent 5 follow-up messages to them over the past 11 days with NO response. Any suggestions?

Please be aware of Linked In!! Don't EVER run any ads or campaigns through Linked In!! They will charge your credit card all sorts of charges from $10 through $60+ almost on a daily basis. There are no phone numbers in which to reach them to rectify the situation. When you do finally get in touch with someone via email, they say they won't refund you your money for their mistake. I am now taking this matter up with the authorities and my credit card company. I hope my expensive lesson will help others to not use their phony service. They are unethical and truly crooked.

I think the only types of people who can benefit from LinkedIn are executive professionals. It appears that the new look of LinkedIn was done for executives who thought they were creating it for everyone, but sadly, executives are all too often disconnected from the real world. They post way too many fake ads and scams, and they allow these scammers to post spam. So let's say you're looking for something part-time, work from home, LinkedIn will propagate 50 or more so called jobs that are all from the same 2 or 3 "employers" in your area, and most of them are foreign corporations. These employers only offer surveys or polls to complete, where you get paid up to a couple dollars for each completion. And these surveys can take up to one hour or longer, plus keep in mind that you'll still need to pay taxes on that, where you may earn $10 for 4 hours of work. These aren't jobs when they pay less than a person earns in servitude.

I have nearly 16k connections. I've had many problems with my account since 2017. I paid for LinkedIn Recruiter since I'm a independent recruiter. I noticed I have messages I can't read. I had lots got foreign people from certain countries trying to connect with me. I discovered one day when I looked at who's logged in. It was not just me logged in. It would be different iPhones and locations besides Durham, NC where I live. Every time I logged into recruiter like the location would change from my Durham location to unknown location. Also happened when I downloaded Recruiter Lite on my IiPhone. Location would be a different city besides Durham. SO scary. I was harassed by foreigners online. Computer hacked. I could tell my iPhone was hacked. Always hot whenever I made phone calls. Things became physical. People figured out or took advantage of where I lived.

Despite having turned off my looking for employment settings, I continue to get multiple recommendations for jobs. I have exchanged emails with Victoria for the past five days. She doesn't answer my question about who generates these, gave me a link supposedly to my settings. It was a link to open an account. She insisted I take a screenshot even though I told her multiple times it did not work on my phone. I finally figured out on my own how to change my settings. It was simple: click on my photo which led me to my profile and then to my settings which I changed so my profile isn't available to the public. I have no idea why she couldn't just tell me that.

I joined Linkedin, a few years ago & I wished I didn't. My own family smeared my name & I almost lost it all. They believed in the smear campaign, even though I shared videos about it. They love to gossip. Many, way to many fake accts. If someone is jealous of you, they will try to ruin you. I HAVE FRAUD COMING FROM THEM IN MY OTHER ACCT & THEY HARASS. I had break ins & a good chance it came from Linkedin. Fraud is big with them. If you are sensitive do not go on this social media. They will go as far as befriend you to get free information & it's very clickist. I'm taking off all my work & then leaving. It put me in dangers, because of narcissism.

I have been trying to log into my account for more than 3 months now. I even cancelled the two step verification process because the last time I was able to get in was a nightmare. Terrible IT. You would think that a billion dollar corporation like this would have its act together but not at all! I wish I could get into my account so that I can cancel it. When you follow the steps recommend by LinkedIn it does not work. They are worse than Uber technologies not being able to reach anyone on the telephone to resolve technical issues. Totally not professional at all.

Please stay out with this Platform!!! It's the worst one that I have been encountered. It helps nothing and unpleasant feeling if you get restricted with unreasonable reasons. And I've just discovered; in fact there are so much complaints about LinkedIn that it has make this platform get its Champion status as The Worst Social Media Platform. Just google it and you will find plenty of them... And I'm glad that I am not the only one that feel the same way and do the complaint.

I have tried to cancel my premium subscription with LinkedIn two times. The first time I canceled with plenty of time to avoid another payment but was charged again anyway. So I thought that maybe there was a technical glitch that caused this so I decided to use the month of training and then cancel again a few days before the next payment was scheduled. I canceled with 3 days left. They charged me AGAIN! This is not a mistake. I have done some research online and discovered that many others have had this same experience and now it is happening to me. It is also widely known that the Linked In hack exposed their customer's sensitive information. My advice would be to stay far away from this company!

I just updated my profile; and signed up for the 30 day "premium" scam...then the bogus jobs started coming in through email - cancelled premium and deleted account. It's fake! Those job offerings are from years ago and matched to your profile as recent. Notice how you can't reply to LinkedIn directly? Not to mention all the LinkedIn connected BS SPAM email you'll deal with... Just apply through company site and use Indeed or Simplyhired (yea, I know they're linkedin).

I've been on Linkedin for over 10yrs. I just noticed today the inmail no longer works. We have to pay $30/month for just 3 inmails per month. $9/month, maybe when job seeking, but not $30. That's cruel. Sorry, too rich for my bank account. I'll stick with the old way of networking. In person, external emails and phone calls.

I’ve used Linked-in recruiter for a few years. I purchased job slots and a recruiter license which we have paid tens of thousands of dollars for. LinkedIn makes it very difficult to share resumes with hiring managers. This year to streamline things since I am very busy and downloading and saving every resume to my desktop just so I can email them to a hiring manager (I’m HR) is time consuming, I shared my personal login and password so that the manager could scroll through the resumes and just let me know who they would like to interview. I received emails from Linked-in making me feel like a criminal for doing that. I was told I needed to pay more money to be able to “collaborate” with others. I was also told that, me and the hiring manager needed to go through a process of resetting our login information and then report back to them when we are finished so that we come off their violation list.

I lost my job and used LinkedIn which charges $29.99. I used all the connections, etc recommended actions to find a job. LinkedIn Does Not work!! All it is a media for recruiter and marketers to scan people. Also, is crazy how LinkedIn uses us all to Their business. Years ago, I can find a job without LinkedIn and so can everyone. So I found a job and Not from LinkedIn! Or any connections with LinkedIn. Then after I am done paying my Premium. There's free learning course, LinkedIn starts to bill me. Go figure.

Got an email about a promotional "free month" and thought great! Services offered from use were minimal and subpar at best, but hey free month. At the end of the month I went to cancel and still got billed a renewal. I am writing this as a warning to any others who may see this "deal" that it is in fact anything but. There was very limited advantages to the premium, and nothing where I felt true value was added by me having it. Percentages about how I compare to other applicants is silly because if the company goes solely off a resume in this day and age they are not a company one wants to work for in the first place. Sending messages was nice, but definitely not worth the cost of membership. All in all, a poor experience and one I will never repeat and hopefully through this review can save others from falling for the same trap.

I subscribed for LinkedIn Learning (based on an advt. by LinkedIn Learning) and they promised auto-reminders before charging subscription. But without sending any reminders they charged. Now I have nowhere to go. I did raise issue on the website, but based on what I am seeing on this site, I do not expect any response by fraudsters. At least from a respected company like LinkedIn. My bad should have consulted this site, before subscribing. Fell to the tactics. I would say - stay away from LinkedIn subscriptions. You will not get support.

I have just recently started my own company and blindly fell sucker to the "free one-month trial" for LinkedIn Premium so that I could more easily monitor the views that I was getting on my LinkedIn profile. I provided my credit card information and selected the option in my subscription settings to receive notification that my "free one-month trial" would be expiring prior to being charged the full annual subscription fee. I never received any notification. Fortunately, I annotated the date by which I needed to cancel the subscription in my calendar; however, my premium subscription cancellation procedure did not cancel my "free one-month trial", and I was charged the full annual fee exactly one month (mind you, not 31 days) after my trial began. I also did not receive any receipt or authorization of the charge via email.

I thought I had deleted all accounts with LinkedIn, then found last evening that I was wrong. I still have a 4 year old account which is filled with misinformation, which leads me to believe someone else got into that account and changed some of its content. Linkedin has no customer service and nothing that even resembles customer service. I tried to log in using every email address I have, and tried all phone numbers I have had for the past 20 years, no avail. So, I have to let this misinformation be "out there" on their excuse for a website because they refuse to allow me to contact them.

I have used LinkedIn services for years and had accumulated 7,000 contacts. Professional contacts with clients and potential clients. Even though I was using Sales Navigator to contact prospects they canceled the service saying I was being too active on the site. If the site is being advertised as a way to develop professional contacts and it's supposed to help you develop sales however when you use the site they cancel the services, isn't that false advertising. Are they conducting fraud on their users?

Hi All - I am writing a review of LinkedIn. I was a paid member of LinkedIn Sales Navigator. Suddenly I saw that my account got blocked with no notice prior. I am keep asking them why you restrict my account, they don't even bothered to response to their own customers timely. I requested a lot to them but I am not getting answer and account is still restricted. They have asked me to view help center and contact them their representatives but when I go there, they asked me to sign and when I signed in, I got the message that I am restricted so I can't do anything. This is really disappointment for me and for my colleagues and even customers on LinkedIn. My email is **.

If one has a problem accessing their profile for some reason (email, phone numbers changed, etc.) THERE IS NO WAY TO GET AROUND THE PRE-SELECTED HELP ANSWERS. If you can't sign-in to your own account -- even if you can search and find it, you are out of luck trying to find a customer service email or phone number that works for LinkedIn! Beyond aggravating!

I utilized LinkedIn Premium after I was laid off from exec position. I signed up and used recommended tools/actions thru LinkedIn premium. Any job interviews or ultimately the job I found came outside of my actions on LinkedIn (my connections outside of Linkedin). I researched on LinkedIn, used videos, etc. I received responses from only a few recruiters or headhunters thru LinkedIn. I was told later on by 3 recruiters I have gotten to know that they really only used LinkedIn to get lists, etc. They don't really respond to inquiries or messages. In addition, a lot of the connections I have say the same thing. Basically those looking for job are at the bottom of the list. The outcome of Linkedin Premium is much different than the sales pitch. I have confirmed this with many, many friends. I had an online chat with LinkedIn rep after cancelling my Premium and they could have cared less.

I signed up to post a job online that would have a maximum daily charge of $27 on a pay per click. A month later I received a charge of over $1,000 and just 2 applicants. There was no way to contact them, no way to dispute the charges or get explanation. I have simply reported it as fraud to my credit card. Oh, as others have mentioned, I can't cancel my account...

I was given a 30 day free trial to premium level. I wasn't impressed and I (thought) I cancelled it a day or two later. After being charged $32 for July. I failed at trying to find a way to contact any representative of LinkedIn. I next attempted to not only drop Premium setting, but also tried close my account entirely. But due to their curious policy of only allowing members with BASIC accounts to delete their account, And guess what? You can't switch to BASIC if you have a balance on your Premium account. Chat is not available. Their phone is a recording which expresses their sadness at not being able to accept voicemail "at this time". Their email for contact is "no-reply@LinkedIn".

I downloaded the app like others thinking it might be beneficial for me but I didn't get any single job request. Since I was looking for a career counselor I just put it in a post so that someone might help me find a good career counselor. But no to my utter surprise people are only just viewing it, nobody's helping me at all. I'm not any joker to crack jokes and put funny stuffs. I had put for some help. I thought of reporting the account of people who only come & peep into my that post instead of helping me but I'm unable to do that too. Such a pathetic app. Useless, hopeless.

A competitor has cloned my LinkedIn Business page…and when I reported it to LinkedIn Support Personnel, my page was taken down! A competitor has cloned my LinkedIn page, one to one, and when I asked for support, my Business page was taken down, but the Hacker's cloned account, which is currently spreading threatening message to my circle of clients, stayed up and running. Absolutely incompetent and crazy LinkedIn support personnel now damage my Business. Now as a consequence, for letting a hacker's cloned account up and running, and for taking my Page down.

I have been on LinkedIn for some years and never had any issues until this Nigerian guy name Dr. Oduduwa ** begin to harass me trying to force me to join his circle on LinkedIn. I reported the incident to LinkedIn and did nothing. I had to remove my profile from the site and thinking this crazy person would not be able to get leaving me emails. Somehow, this guy has my gmail address and leaving messages there. He is doing this through LinkedIn. I'm trying to figure out how did he do that? I have to change my gmail address because if I don't this man will keep harassing. I already told this person that if he do not leave me alone, I will contact the proper authorities.

I posted a job as a test and selected trial with a budget of zero. I was charged on my credit card without notice. I contacted them and they said I approved of this when I agreed to the terms. It is not what I understood and when I went to cancel the ad, it was deliberately buried and I had to ask for help to delete it. This is a bait and switch company.

LinkedIn restricted my account and I have almost 4,000 contacts. They gave me no reason and wanted my driver's license to verify who I am. No way would I give them my driver's license. Many times before I got contacted by ex LinkedIn ex employees that said they would publish my password all over the internet if I didn't give them $$$. So why would I give them my driver's license to get back to my account. Very disappointed in their service or rather nonservice. They have no e-mail or customer service to contact live...What a joke. After all they had my website and on my profile website is my address and phone number to call to verify it was me. Then they swore I have another account under ** which I do not.

I was a member briefly while doing some research for a business. Having completed the research, I cancelled my subscription. Ever since then I receive up to 20 junk and spam emails a day about SEO proposals. Very few contain unsubscribe options and even if you do send back 'unsubscribe' they keep bombarding you, some on a daily basis. Have taken to sending replies in Chinese as they are obviously not Australian. This DID NOT HAPPEN prior to being a member of LinkedIn.

Like many others, I was charged for a service I did not want but was not warned before they made the charge. In fact, I was surprised when I was contacted by my bank and when I attempted to contact the company from the phone number provided by the bank for the charges, the number did not work at all. Months later, the number worked only so far as a recording stating they are not accepting calls!! Very shortly later, I have been blocked out of my account with a demand for copies of government issued Identification!! This very dangerously looks like a SCAM and identity theft operation. The company is playing hard to reach on every possible level and is completely dishonest in their dealings.

When I am applying for premium service, It was mentioned that I will be notify 3 days before the month end, if I don't want to continue premium service. But I was not notify and you charged me for 1 month. Kindly reverse this charges as you can see in your record that I didn't get any reminder to cancel the service from LinkedIn.

Unless you want your email to be filled with thousands of junk mail then get you some LinkedIn. Better off going to the employer's website. Linkedin basically provides you a bunch of Uber jobs, like everyone knows you can do that yourself. Only way LinkedIn can change my mind about them is if they send an employer to give me a **. Personally I'd prefer giving them a **.

I have used 1 month free subscription to Premium membership on 20/12/2018. But on 29/01/2019 RS. 1652 got deducted from my account without any renewal message of subscription. I'm feeling looted by LinkedIn. I haven't used my account since last month and eventually got message for deduction of huge amount from my account. I am a student and not been given money by my parents for these frauds. Please initiate the refund. LinkedIn is trusted brand. Don't know why they are looting students.

There is a man on there posing as the employee of Store Supply Warehouse and he is scamming us. He said he was a recruiter for Data Plus+. Trying to set us up for a data entry job that does not exist. While he was emailing us back and forth, I called Store Supply Warehouse. I found he is not an employee of that company. Meanwhile my daughter called Data Plus+ and found he was not an employee and was not hired by them to recruit jobs. They did state that this was not the first they had heard about this. I think he should be deleted from LinkedIn before someone loses money. I would be happy to send you the 40 emails back and forth. Now you tell me why LinkedIn did not get rid of him. I guess they like to see people ripped off. I will never ever do any business with anyone connected unless I know them personally. Since LinkedIn allows us to be ripped off etc. I no longer trust them!

I posted a job on LinkedIn for 29 rupees budget. They haven't provided any quality cv's. They asked for authentication of my debit card. After they suspended my posting telling no payment has been done. After a month all of sudden they deducted 2300. I want refund because I didn't authorized and how could they deduct...?

I asked to sign up for Recruiter Lite Monthly after a month trial - the charge was supposed to be $119/month. LinkedIn charged me for the entire year more than $1200.00 on my personal PayPal account after the trial period. This came out of my own personal checking account - a lot of money right before Christmas. Talk about timing! I complained in writing - they told me they would refund it on December 21. It is now January 10 and still no refund. They have the worst customer service. There are other places to source candidates - if they can't operate ethically, there are other places to go. My employer was considering a corporate account, but I have seen so many complaints.

I found a great job that I wanted to apply for. Waited overnight for "LinkedIn" app to download. Logged in and was "challenged" repeatedly. Never got to actually use the app. Waste of my time! There must be a severe problem with robots using this app then writing reviews about it!

There are so many problems with LinkedIn. Let's start with customer service. They do not care about you. "Violations" are opinionated, and they can ban you for minor reasons. You can appeal a ban, but it will take at least a few weeks. Customer service will often not reply to you. Now the website itself. The website design is outdated and unnecessarily tricky to use. Many features do not work. For example, I search for a job within a radius of 10 miles within my city. It breaks for no reason. Never buy premium for this website. Being banned for any reason while having features do not work is an embarrassment. Use other sites for professional and job searching needs. LinkedIn sucks.

They locked up thousands of accounts. Claiming violations to their policy. I never did anything. I barely ever logged in. They then want images of drivers license or passport. I blocked out my dob, license #, address, etc... and left my name and image... They will not accept it. Why do do they need my dob, drivers #, address??? Fraud. Turning into Facebook. Trying to get more info on its users...

I moved to Arizona back in July of this year. Changed my phone and updated LinkedIn with my new number. Identified new number as the primary contact and to be used in two-step verification process. All of a sudden, a month after I closed my old phone number completely, LinkedIn has decided to start sending me my two-step verification to that disconnected number. I was able to verify that my new number is still registered as a primary number on the account and the one designated for two-step verification process. I still had LinkedIn application open on my iPhone, however, I could no longer make any changes to my account.

Been a premium sales navigator member, means this is the top membership. Been paying for the last 3 years. Gained over 109,000 followers. My 30,000 connection limit was almost exhausted, had 35,000 pending connection requests. Was being tagged a couple of hundred times a day, and getting a few 100 connection requests daily. Plus receiving 100s of thousands of views of my posts.

Literally stole my money from my bank for an unused service. It's worse than trying to cancel the Wall Street Journal. I will let every person I know what a scam this is. Premium doesn't even increase the views of your account, it does nothing but add a bunch of buttons to your home page about how good premium is.

after small mail they refund amount. thanks, LinkedIn for fast support

So frustrated with their changes on their recruiter access plans. I use to pay $49.99 a month to get the same access as the Recruiter Lite they offer now but you will need to pay $119 a month now to get the same access. So disappointing that LinkedIn turned into a site like everyone else - wanting more money from the consumer instead of being humble. LINKEDIN ISN'T ABOUT THE PEOPLE. They only care to get as much money as they can from you.

Does anyone have any guidance on how to cancel the linked premium subscription? They charged me for an entire year - I have tried to cancel and get my money back, since August - there is not an option. There is no phone number, I tried to cancel multiple times and it says "I am canceled" - but I am paid up until 2019!!!) They have STOLEN from me $1275.00. That is a trip to Aruba. Any advice before I lawyer up?

I signed up for a free trial of a premium account of linkedin. I was not able to cancel & they charged me $575 for a year’s subscription. This is a scam. This company has no interactive customer service. It’s not possible to contact them through email, phone, mail, messenger or any other way. Their business practices are unethical and dishonest. They charge for a service they do not provide.

I am told my account is restricted and I can not log in. There is no access to any form of customer service to get answers. Much time was invested in contacts (over 500). Many customers review my info. This restriction can do great harm to my business. I want answers and a solution. I see others have had the same problem with LinkedIn.

I've signed up for the Job Seeker App one month trial. I had doubts that it would work, and so it turned out. It didn't work for me. I've deleted the app, and as many other apps before. I thought that would be enough to cancel the subscription. It turns out it's not enough. The amount is not charged because there are not sufficient funds. On top of that the subscription it tells me is active until October 6. I DON'T WANT THIS SUBSCRIPTION. Why can't I just delete it. This way LinkedIn is making life miserable for everyone.

Very disappointing situation. I was Online, using my app, everything apparently working properly, when all of sudden, my account was logged out twice, but in the second time I was not able to log in, since now it says that my "account is Temporarily Restricted". What a disrespect, totally, unjustifiable. Now, I cannot use my own account because of this and there is no Customer Service number (I have tried 3 different ones, all spams), no answers from anybody.

This is horrible. I can't access my account, then you try to contact LinkedIn and no way of contacting them directly. You have to go through a help forum, and they ask you to log in to your account in order to get help. Hello, I can't access my account. If I could access my account I wouldn't need any help, 'cause that is the darn issue. So Stupid.

Don't give bank account information to LinkedIn! I signed up for a supposed 'free' LinkedIn Premium trial. I canceled after just 2 days because it absolutely did not do what they claimed and gave me no special access. (My cancellation was acknowledged by them via email over a month ago.) End of last week my bank account had an unauthorized charge by them for the membership which I had canceled over a month before. I've written to them twice and they won't respond.

This site is helpful with networking and visibility. I am getting resume reviews weekly. Overall LinkedIn is one of better job search sites. I recommend it to anyone in the job search situation.

This company has the worst customer service. My account became restricted and I did not know why. I spent hours in trying to resolve the issue via emails, phone calls and repeated attempts by their customer people to make me pay $99 for a recovery fee, only to be disconnected each time I spoke with someone. I sent all the verification requested only to be told, I am out of luck. I could go on but I want people to know, be careful. I am no longer a LinkedIn member and will not recommend them moving forward.

First off, the site is a jumble and mish-mash of too many things. Nothing is organized, and nothing is categorized the way it should be. As soon as I find something relevant to what I need or am looking for, they change everything, then I have to sift through their total screwed up system again. I have yet to find ANY job listings... And this is after 2 years of looking on there.

I signed up for a free 30 day Premium subscription, for which I was required to provide my PayPal info. I cancelled the subscription well within the 30 day deadline, but LinkedIn nonetheless charged almost $600 to my PayPal account. I have written to LinkedIn numerous times, explaining the situation, providing back-up documentation, & requesting a refund. However, I have been repeatedly ignored & stonewalled, & now, many months later, I have still not received my refund.

I am a group owner on LinkedIn who has been a member for more than ten years. I have more than one million members in my groups. Some of the dishonest practices that I have experienced and documented. I believe that these actions and many others that I have experienced are breaking laws in Europe and in California and other US states. They hide many postings. They are visible on the poster's computer in the discussion list but not on other group member's computers.

I notified LinkedIn.com two days ago that my account was hacked and that there were fraudulent job postings being charged on my account. Well LinkedIn.com just charged my account for these fraudulent postings. ZERO communication from their "safety and security" department. Zero ways to contact them directly after account is suspended. ZERO customer service. Definitely will choose to professionally network via different portals. What a POS company. Second time in last 12 months this has occurred with same outcome. Lets you know where LinkedIn.com stands regarding the customer and user. Definitely a potential for a class action lawsuit as I know that I am not the only user that has experienced this.

LinkedIn somehow charged my card $129.00 claiming I signed up for a premium version of LinkedIn. I never did this, I tried contacting them and because of how many issues they have with what I’m going through, they do not even have a phone number to call. I have tried communicating through email, and LinkedIn’s response has been to “open a ticket” even though when I’m replying to their emails it’s because I opened up a ticket. I have since deleted my profile and encouraged my employees also to do so. LinkedIn is a large company, who makes most of their money stealing from people hoping they do not notice.

The LinkedIn website seems to require a manual and many hours to decipher all of material they offer. It's very confusing website. I spent hours trying to figure them out. I posted a job which I thought was for free and then I got a 350 bill. I was concerned several times during the month and my balance was always at 0.00. I was able to chat and cancel my job posting's job posting but could not get any refund. Chat never told me that I was accruing charges... Apparently chat doesnt have access to accruing charges. Chat told me to chat back with them if I was charged. After I received my 350 bill, I tried to contact chat. Not possible after an hour of navigating.

LinkedIn, without warning or reason, locked my account yesterday. I have obeyed their terms of service. They demanded I send them a copy of my driver license to unlock it. I did so, but it is still locked. It is virtually impossible to reach a person at this company, but someone in sales said it could take a week or longer. This is damaging my ability to get a job. I demand Linkedin stop this aggressive grabbing of personal data. This is beyond data mining, this is data theft. This is worse than Facebook.

My business partner and I purchased the Premium LinkedIn Recruiter for 2 years. In 2017, I had to leave my company for personal reasons but still continued to pay for my share of $7K. Recently, I joined a staffing firm and to my surprise, I do not have access to LinkedIn Recruiter Corporate. I have asked for it numerous of times. I thought perhaps if LinkedIn could look up my old account and see that I hardly used it, then they may either give me a couple of months free for the Premium OR give me extra Inmail usage for my Recruiter Lite package that I recently purchased. They denied me of both.

Placed a job posting on LinkedIn recently. The wording/language about the fees was so confusing, I still don't understand what I was billed for, when after 10 days I owed them $110 just from people VIEWING THE AD! Reported it via email (no physical phone number to call them) and was told, "sorry, no refund possible". I feel like I got scammed and ripped off.