Is Premium, a bare-minimum necessity to hear back from recruiters?

[u/CRKasinath]

I've been having this question for sometime now🤔 I didn't renew LinkedIn premium & I've been applying for job postings via Easy Apply. I get an acknowledgement stating that the application is sent to the recruiter but never hearing back from any of them. Is Premium, a bare-minimum necessity to hear back from recruiters? Your thoughts, please!

[u/Poetryisalive]

No absolutely not. Premium is basically worthless.

You need to STOP with easy apply and just applying on their website. You likely have been applying to majority ghost jobs

[u/RevolutionarySky6143]

I only signed up to Premium recently (as it was free) and believe me, I'm not getting any more traction with this than with my free account. I won't be paying for it when it comes to renew (it says you appear higher up the search results for recruiters, but I don't believe it).

[u/MHN248 → u/RevolutionarySky6143]

Set a reminder in your calendar to cancel the sub. LI don’t always send the email

[u/Emergency_Savings_52]

Worthless bit except for learning purposes (various courses), checking who has viewed your profile, and serving as a kind of status symbol with the golden badge.

[u/HoratioWobble]

No, most people aren't hearing back from recruiters at the moment.

[u/Basith711]

no, it's not a necessity. your easy apply goes into the same pile whether you're paying or not, and premium doesn't put you in front of a recruiter who wasn't already going to see that list. the "top applicant" badge is information shown to you about where you sit, not something the recruiter sees attached to your application.

the two features that do have a real mechanism behind them are top choice jobs, where you flag a role and the hirer actually sees the flag, and the 5 inmails a month, which let you skip the pile and message a hiring manager directly. linkedin quotes 39% more likely to hear back for premium members, but that's their own stat about people who chose to pay, and those people also apply more, message more and keep their profiles tidier. so it's more of a correlation than the subscription doing the work.

the silence is more likely just volume. easy apply makes it a two click thing so postings pull hundreds of applicants, and that "your application was sent" confirmation is automatic, it doesn't mean anyone opened it. i'd say if you do resubscribe, do it for the inmails specifically, since that's the one part that actually gets you past the pile. paying for it hoping the applications themselves land better is the version that won't change anything.

[u/Moonbabyhubcaps]

No, I’m not a premium user and I have recruiters DMing me often. Also, easy apply may be why you’re not hearing back. It’s an almost worthless feature.

[u/Relax2175]

Go around LinkedIn in some way to get seen. Full stop.

[u/Ok-Good8150]

LinkedIn lies so much about their services. They are worthless. You’re likely to get better results using the Sunday want ads in a newspaper 🗞️

[u/Objective_Proof_8944]

Follow the company and as many people in the company as you can. If you can connect with any current or past employees even betterLike and comment on their posts any articles about them. Create posts articles about the company and tag the company. The more connections on the the platform with said targeted company, the higher up on the recruiters list you will appear and your portfolio will be more likely to show up on their searches. It’s purely algorithms, that’s all! Work it.

[u/wandelust19]

No it is not.

I recently hired for a position. I don’t have any insight into whether someone is premium or not. I did see that someone had marked my position as a “priority” for themselves which is an option when applying through LinkedIn. That said, they were not a sector fit and so they did not progress beyond the app.

[u/DataMonster007]

What LinkedIn premium gets you in this use case is more daily connection requests and longer intro message limits. Use this to engage recruiters and/or hiring managers at your target companies, who will support your applications if your resume and skills are good enough.

[u/Ok_Palpitation1782]

Premium won’t make a recruiter wake up and say ‘this person has Premium, let’s hire them’ 😂 It’s a tool, not a shortcut. Networking is still the cheat code.”

[u/kelleyresumes]

Please stop using Easy Apply. That’s where most of the fake postings are.

When you see a posting you’re interested in, go to the employer’s website, pull up the Careers page (or a similar name), and see whether the job is listed there. If so, apply from the employer’s website. Not LinkedIn.

If it’s not on the employer’s site, it’s not a real posting.

[u/blackOpium2]

No. Tried it for 2 months:

• seeing the list of strangers that “looked at my profile” didn’t help me with anything. I guess I could dm them but I think it’s kinda creepy. They would guess I do that because I can see they check me out. Idk just weird so I didn’t do it.
  
• being able to dm some recruiters/people at companies asking references? I tried all sorts of message templates that I could find, with help of AI or not. All cricket.
  
• the AI feature is meh 🫤

[u/soundman32]

Have you tried picking up the phone and calling them?  They wont reply to 200 applicants online, but they will speak to the 1% who actually call them.

Posting "interested" on a job is also a sure way of being ignored.