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by hack_fraud13 790 days ago
Better as in less spammy, less scammy, and less bots? That’s pretty hard to do at scale. But there’s functionality in LinkedIn that you could break out and do better.

For example, it’s not a great job board, but it does recommend jobs based on your experience. A cool tool (not sure if it exists) would be to upload a resume to a site and have it return job listings, sorted by compatibility. LinkedIn does this to an extent but it could be done much better. Another cool feature would be something that compares your resume to a listing and points out the experience you’re missing.

Not that that really matters. The real way LinkedIn makes its money is B2B sales and marketing. The job board & social media features are just a veneer to attract users.

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I suppose less social media side of things and self-promotion, and more for discovering who the experts in a given field are? The tool you've described is a pretty cool idea!