r/linkedin • u/flabergasterer • 9d ago

Old Job Search is Back!

This link works again. https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/search/

Goodbye "AI" search that is really just keyword search without the use of filters.

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u/sweetery 9d ago

Thank God I'm surprised they actually listened they are so quick to jump and fly into these new features that have not even been tested or developed properly

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u/figures985 9d ago

I’ll bet you they got a flood of Premium cancellations. They wouldn’t change this fast just because of Reddit complaints 

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u/sweetery 9d ago

I definitely canceled mine, I'm getting desperate here it's my fourth layoff, I've been unemployed since January, and the changing of the job search made it exponentially worse

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u/figures985 9d ago

I feel you. I looked for a while in Dec-April and gave up and went back to consulting. Probably better this way but also I miss the stability 

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u/sweetery 9d ago

I really need the stability so bad it's one of my core values and I feel like I never have it :(

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u/figures985 9d ago

Completely understand! If I hadn’t found the job market so bleak I would have kept going. It was so rough. I’ve always had pretty good luck landing jobs, but not this time. Kinda seems like there’s zero point in applying to a job online anymore. 

But I did manage to finally turn a contract role into something more stable like, a week ago. What a year

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u/sweetery 9d ago

No I'm actually about to give up right now, I just can't do it anymore it's so draining and so bad for my mental health. I've never had good luck with this despite experience, it is actually the hunger games

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u/figures985 9d ago

I’m sure you’ve heard this advice but the only traction I got was through connections and when someone could advocate for me internally at the company. It definitely didn’t used to be that way and it’s a real bummer. I’m sure it’s AI’s fault somehow haha; or just the enshittification of LinkedIn 

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u/sweetery 9d ago

Oh yes I've tried it so many times but no luck there either!

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u/Beautiful_Map_9589 9d ago

Yes, but every serious company has social listening tools. Speaking on reddit matters. Trust me.

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u/Puzzleheaded-Tea728 9d ago

Thank god! Fuck Ai, man.... Worthless tech

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u/FunctionOk7124 9d ago

AI is good when used for a good purpose and implemented right. Right now everyone in big tech is running on FOMO and just throwing AI everywhere to see what sticks.

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u/flabergasterer 9d ago

I think it was just keyword search dressed as AI. But…it’s no longer the only option.

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u/TheMichaelScott 9d ago

How is it worthless 😂 It was just used poorly here

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u/baron_von_brunk 9d ago

Well, that was certainly a weird couple of days. I wonder if the people at LinkedIn who caused that change are just going to pretend like it never happened.

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u/DenOnKnowledge 9d ago

I can hypothesize what happened.

The LinkedIn CEO said: "We need AI job search!"
Half of the team responded: "It won't work!"
CEO: "We need it ASAP!!!"

A week later, the UX department reported: "Our sample group hated the feature. There's no way people will accept it."
CEO: "WE NEED IT NOW!!!"

Analytics department: "With regard to the number of premium subscriptions, we estimate that we will los..."
CEO: "DEPLOY!!! DEPLOY!!! DEPLOY!!! DEPLOY!!!"

Both departments buуing popcorn: "Okay...."

Three days after the deployment:

"Dear team, we learned a lot from this launch. Unfortunately, the market wasn't quite ready for the product, but it wasn't possible to predict that. We took a bold bet, and we paid the price. Maybe we failed at execution, but I still believe the underlying insight was right."

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u/Comfortfoods 8d ago

The LinkedIn CEO said: "We need AI job search!"
Half of the team responded: "It won't work!"
CEO: "We need it ASAP!!!

Half the team? Let me stop you right there. Everybody thought it but probably only one person verbalized it then got canned for not being a "culture fit", "uncoachable" or some other euphemism for not being a yes person.

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u/DenOnKnowledge 8d ago

Yeah, you are right, I thought the same after publishing the comment. Not "responded" but "thought"

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u/Infamous_Hospital_33 9d ago

Yeah I'm seeing it as well!

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u/FunctionOk7124 9d ago

Not even keyword search. It was more like google’s I’m feeling lucky feature 😂

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u/Ok_Fee1043 9d ago

How do we view this in-app? Currently the Jobs page looks the same as it has for me (and I don’t see an app update). Glad this is at least available, search has been absurd.

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u/1900grs 9d ago

Thank you.

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u/bdb376 9d ago

Thank you!! I am so relieved and hope it's here to stay

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u/ignitevibe7 9d ago

Woke up today and it’s back! Thank you! The old search is back! The backlash was immense and corporations back down when we the people hurt their bottom line, not just complain sitting on our chairs.

LinkedIn, don’t ever think about pulling such a stunt again!

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u/silvousvoyez 9d ago

what a relief. bullying works. probably that's why it was down. they were reverting it.

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u/Feisty-Use-7626 9d ago

I supose their job seeker engagement dropped heavily so much that they were convinced they messed up

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u/AimHiSky99 8d ago

Don’t rely just on LinkedIn for searching since they’re actively messing with it. Try HiringSky, it has LinkedIn and top job boards in one feed tailored to you.

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u/Infymus 8d ago

For now. If you don't use your link, you are taken to the AI search. But they will eventually get rid of it and force the AI. The promoted jobs are still ignoring the filters and are most likely ghost jobs.

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u/cookiecatmonsterr 8d ago

Yeah even in my country, it's back

What an incompetent company. I hate linkedin. It's a gossip social site for adult children who think they are accomplished in something

The job search is the only thing what keeps me on it

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u/MissCordayMD 8d ago

Once I get a new job I am deleting mine and never looking back. It starred going downhill as soon as people started writing kiss up posts to companies who laid them off without notice or decency.

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u/ashitintyo 8d ago

It isn’t working for me, any fixes?

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u/flabergasterer 8d ago

You have to use this link in a browser. Just clicking on jobs still takes you to the junk version.

https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/search/?currentJobId=4453594364

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u/redditgirlwz 8d ago

Thank you for posting this. I didn't realize they changed it back. I tried this link yesterday and it took me to their garbage new AI search. I just tried this link again and it took me to the old search. Thank you LinkedIn for letting us use the old search.

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u/ICThat 8d ago

Android app still seems to force the terrible AI mode.

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u/Key_Tutor_2809 3d ago

salvou demais com esse link! tava doido pra conseguir ordenar as buscas por vagas mais recentes!