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What do people like this do when an offer gets rescinded or they get fired in the initial stages?
Write another long sob story?
Some kid from my school made a post reflecting on why he didn’t get a return offer. To be honest I think he was special needs but I was dumbfounded regardless.
This is pretty bad. What is worse is when I get a notifcation that person X just graduated Harvard Business School, when they really just took an online course for 6 weeks.
And they put HBS under education too.
Do you one better, they put HBS in their sub-header
I realize that they also do this nonsense to get access to Harvard alumni on LinkedIn
The way Harvard and some of these schools have devolved, I wouldn't be keen to even show it off. DEI-P University
Congrats on Rutgers!
Never understood why people get an online degree and need to add to their credentials section
Lmao, a Fortune 50 C-suite exec from my T25 MBA (prestigious undergrad, ranked higher than our B school) has Stanford as an education on LinkedIn at the top. I never understood that ... you're already near the top of your profession / a good 30 years into your career and you feel the need to act like you went to Stanford over your 2 year MBA program (it was a 1 year executive certificate / program type of thing).
Always felt people who do this tend to be insecure but have seen entrepreneurs at my school do that with HBS certificates as I imagine it may attract some investors on LinkedIn more so than our T25 program. I sort of get that but I don't get the above with the C-suite example.
Name?
I think we shouldn't blur out their name...Just saying
Is this cringe? Yes, is it really that big of a deal? No.
We all did dumb shit when we were younger. Fortunately for people my age we weren't this public about it.
The amount of dumb shit stays the same, but social media lets us see more of it
Okay maybe it's a little cringe or whatever but the person is just happy they got a job. Who cares really. I assume you've never shared any good news publicly with anyone ever?
I'd like to take a positive spin since it is the holidays.
Good for the intern. Normally opportunity for internship and mentoring are considered life-changing opportunities. If the person came from a non-traditional background, good for them as this will open a lot of new doors that otherwise may not had been accessible. I always encourage education growth for the younger generation that are still living in the ghetto in my city. Normally people from where I grew up either enlisted in the military or stayed on the welfare system.
Godspeed to the intern, and good luck.
Once on LinkedIn, I saw some kid paint the Wells Fargo stagecoach on his graduation cap, and the schools mascot was sitting in said stagecoach.
I thought to myself “what an asshole”
That's just sad lol
100% agree OP - nothing reeks more of "main character syndrome" than someone posting something like that on LinkedIn, as if they are the number one NBA draft pick signing an eight-figure contract and not just an intern...
Sadly you see this stuff all the time now on LinkedIn - as someone in his early 30s I remember a time before Linkedin's feed was spammed with nonsense that should be confined to non work-related social media platforms. Honestly the LinkedIn feed now is so cringeworthy the only reason I would ever scroll through it is for laughing at people. It's either interns or recent graduates announcing their internships/first jobs with the gravitas of a Hans Zimmer score, or sales people/influencers spamming crappy products, or corporate people posting stuff totally out of touch like "My company xxx is the place where success happens" when their stock price is down 50% this year alone lol.
Just a note for any younger people reading this - I have absolutely nothing against you updating your LinkedIn profile to say "starting internship at xxx" etc, in fact one of the few things LinkedIn is still useful for is being notified when people move roles/companies. But trust me as an experienced IB/PE guy, there is zero upside in putting some dramatic announcement about "all my life decisions have led up to this exact moment" when you're starting an internship in a bank/corporate role, not entering the NFL. At best people won't care, at worst they will actively judge you for it (note that whilst I find it very cringeworthy I also wouldn't hold it against a person as we all do awkward stuff when we're young). I get that you're excited/proud of your achievement (as you should be) and maybe want to flex to your peers, but that's what other social media platforms are for. Put it on your Instagram/Tiktok/Facebook/whatever. But just keep it off LinkedIn, and that will be one less bit of spam I have to see whenever I (against my better judgement) peruse LinkedIn.
In my 30s and agree with most of this. Will say if you're into tech niches and trying to learn more about them, LinkedIn is great to follow 'thought leaders.' Same if you're trying to break into a specific space. Interacting with well regarded people on LinkedIn via cold messages / follow-up calls can open doors the road. May take time for these connections to come to fruition (if ever) but it's still a great way to network. It's sort of what I'm doing right now with a space I'm trying to break back into post MBA or 1-2 years after if I can't get into that space right away.
Would be interested in hearing the consensus on putting "incoming analyst at XXX bank" in your headline but not making a post / notifiying your network about it? Is this cringe?
For me personally as I said in my earlier reply, I have zero issue with someone updating their LinkedIn to say “starting internship at xxx bank” etc. As one of the few things LinkedIn is still good for is tracking where professional acquaintances are moving to/looking at their job history etc. And given that’s basically the primary purpose of LinkedIn, I doubt anyone on here would say they have an issue with that - it’s the super-cringey posts that most people on here dislike. As mentioned above I understand why you would be proud of your accomplishment, but flexing to the whole of LinkedIn (which includes very experienced/senior people in your industry!) about getting your internship/first job just comes off as at best naive and at worst reeks of arrogance imho.
Do people really take time out of their day to write this or is it in their contract to post?
The most ridiculous I've seen recently was a person (of course this person had MBA in their title and said Ex-McKinsey, Ex-Goldman 3X Promote) yes, that is to say this person got 3 promotions at GS and wanted to point it out in header.
comical
what a prick
What's worse, being so convinced you're the main character that you post something like this, or having so little self-confidence or self-awareness that thinking that dunking on these people for the ten millionth time is funny or topical?
The former
I have always found that Linkedin is Facebook for advanced people.
Most posts and likes are fakes to me. They like their employers´ posts although they are not really satisfied with them.
Slimers and crawlers everywhere.
Spot on
Top tier nerd
If all I landed was commercial banking I'd work actively to make sure as little people as possible on LinkedIn sees my update
Was pretty easy to find her lol
Real G's move in silence
Embarrassing and reeks of main character syndrome. Also reeks of "I don't know anything about the industry and think JPM = Great" when in reality M&A at a 5 man shop is better than commercial banking at JPM. I know many people like this.
grown ass mf's who don't work in anything better than CB hating on an undergrad getting a banking offer lmfaoo
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