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If you’ve ever applied or thought of applying for a job via LinkedIn, you’ll know that the experience can be immediately disheartening: Openings that look

If you’ve ever applied or thought of applying for a job via LinkedIn, you’ll know that the experience can be immediately disheartening: Openings that look interesting typically can see hundreds or thousands of applications in a matter of hours — data that LinkedIn, a social network for the world of work, proudly exposes in its own version of building up viral hype. That’s to say nothing of the huge number of people who have lost their jobs as the economy continues to correct in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic — more than 152,000 in the tech sector alone were laid off in 2024, according to the Layoffs.fyi tracker. So while LinkedIn has built a number of products specifically for premium users, to encourage more people to pay for the service, now it’s swinging in the other direction.

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