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What were some of the most Cringe-worthy profiles that you came across on LinkedIn?
Listing every single class or online course that one followed? Getting recommendations from fellow students?
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Recently came across this high school flex. I find it hilarious. (Done by 1st year analyst)
Edit: Deleted the picture because of potential privacy issues.
I think I know what post you're talking about. Sadly he changed his linkedin since then. Kid had every school he had gotten into, what scholarships he was awarded, and what his potential major would be at each uni
Yee true, I think it's just temporary to kick-off and give a 'signal' for recruiters ;)
Not a profile, but most posts by Brigette Hyacinth...
I love how we all universally understood who's being mentioned and how annoying those posts are.
I'm convinced the account is a bot. Otherwise, this person has literally nothing better to do than to create convoluted lies where she always ends with some bs morals and how she saved the day.
what the actual fuck!??? HAHAHAHA
bet this guy's profile headline goes: Student at X University | Goldman Sachs
Omg lol that's great
This kid French?
Not super comfortable with this thread. It's way too easy to figure out who these kids are. We were all young and dumb once.
Yeah you can google any of the phrasing and find them in 2 seconds. Should be taken down.
They have already posted on a public website. Maybe they should be more self aware before making themself look like a jackass
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Hard to show on WSO, but just the other day I found someone with at least 40 certifications on their profile
A guy is putting time in his professional development, what's wrong about that? I mean, I also try to resist that desire to put all my 50+ Coursera certificates on my Linkedin (successfully as for now), but there are people who don't have any other credentials and want to leverage what they have.
Edit: Yes, keep throwing monkey shit if you genuinely think that continuous professional development and desire to learn is something that should we laugh at.
I see where you're coming from but it looked like it was more of a hobby than anything, there wasn't really any rhyme or reason to most of them, only around 10 or so were applicable to his job/ past jobs.
Also see where you're coming from, but no reason to post everything on Linkedin. Professional improvement > bragging about professional improvement.
"Incoming CFA Level 1 Candidate"
"CFA Level 1 - intend to enroll" & "Incoming Spring Week Intern" are my favourites
incoming insight day participant
Isn't that the WallStreetIntern/Litquidity meme account on Insta? I don't know if anyone is really doing that.
Search incoming spring intern on linkedin and you'll get 100+ results
Per the CFA association rules, you are not allowed to list candidacy unless you've registered and paid for the test. Just FYI, to anyone who reads this. I have seen people called out for having it on a resume and not being registered (e.g. person says, oh I intend to take it, etc....people who are actual CFAs or have taken the exam will potentially humiliate you about it).
Bit of a tangent, but one of my colleagues got ticked off by the CFA because, having passed many years ago, he stopped paying the annual fees. They found it still mentioned on his LinkedIn profile (he hadn't thought twice about it), and sent him rude emails threatening to blacklist our firm or some nonsense like that.
why are you dissing me yo
I flirted and hooked up with a girl at a bar once using LinkedIn (throwaway account, I don't have one) because I was too drunk, deleted her #, but she showed me her LinkedIn so we PM'ed that way.
Not my proudest moment. Quite a Boomer move on my part.
That's awesome. Sliding into LinkedIN DMs is some next level shit
LinkedIn for hookup is a real thing
LinkedIn is the new tinder
Still my favorite to this day - Kid from undergrad who is now at a Big 4 is notorious for these.
"Congratulate (Name) for being promoted to New England Managing Partner Advisory Committee: Representative for the Boston Tax Function of (Company Name)."
The Director came back with:
"Way to use fancy words to announce you joined the group that decides on snacks for busy season."
Murdered. He took it down shortly after.
Kid still has that title on LinkedIn. He also has a bunch where he lists himself as founder, Emiratus chairman etc etc of some college club lol
I stand corrected - so the Director made that comment and he still left it up. Gotta give him credit where credit is due.
Thought the first two sentences of each paragraph were funny together.
Goodness gracious
Elated indeed
What an absolute fucking tool. The worst part is that there's more than a couple of these posts (boohoo covid-19, but look at my shiny new job!)
Thinking about it, all these posts would come off better if it was just a single sentence along the lines of, "Very fortunate to be interning at XXX next summer. They're great people and I'm looking forward to working with them." Not mentioning the shitty situation is better overall lmao
So tone deaf
Also related: What is this flex with putting Bloomberg Market Concepts as a certification on Linkedin? Doesn't it take like 20 hours to finish?
Actually it only takes 3 hours to finish if you click through all the videos without watching them. There's no exam either at the end. Even if you get every single question wrong in the quizzes, as long as you are done with each module you can get the certification. That's why it's a total joke.
Definite Rock-Star Summer Analyst
"threats"
That coupled with misspelled "commnets" and incosistent use of "+" before/after numbers were the reasons why he wasn't extended a Full-time offer.
I came across this gem a while ago. I always come back to this kid's profile whenever a friend talks about cringey LinkedIn profiles.
This is fucking awesome hahaha. One might think he works for fucking Mattress Firm.
Saw this kid put down "Finalist" as a role for a BB bank. Meaning he was interviewed but didn't get the part. He also put Harvard for a course he did on EdX. My eyes were bleeding!
this thread is big lols
Had to come back here and post this...A fucking post on getting an interview lmao. I wonder if we'll get a follow-up post should he not move on...
sounds like the guy joined the army and hasn't interviewed in years. this one is actually motivating/heartwarming but it's something that you should post on facebook, not LinkedIn
Yeah I kinda feel like a douchebag now lmao
"Trader at Hedge-Fund" from the guy who practice "Trading" from his smartphone.
The most Hilarious is all the thousands of "Trader" and "Head of" from a specific bank on Linkedln but when you are in the industry there are only few hundreds Trader and the famous "Head of" works in the back office as a project manager.
"Incoming Summer 2020 Analyst at Firm"
Gloating before even beginning.
lmao have you seen the incoming 2021 summer analyts
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