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AI & Assistive Tools

Rebuilding LinkedIn's Tracking Infrastructure

LinkedIn engineers describe migrating a high-volume event-ingestion pipeline, including gRPC adoption, asynchronous Kafka delivery, validation and production hardening.

#data-engineering#kafka#infrastructure
linkedin.comAdded Oct 26, 20260 opens
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Marketing & Platform Tools

New Ways to Build Meaningful Connections, Grow Your Side Hustle, and Earn on LinkedIn

LinkedIn's October 15 announcement describes a testing-stage Network feed, digital business cards, a creator dashboard and monetization tools. Profile notes require Premium; Advice Sessions require Business Premium in the U.S.; In-Stream Ads are limited to eligible creators. The announcement is free to read, not all features are free or widely available.

#networking#creators#side hustle
news.linkedin.comAdded Oct 19, 20260 opens
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Career & Professional Optimization

An Insider's View of the United States Immigration System and Visas

An article offering a practitioner's overview of the U.S. immigration system, covering common visa categories and processes relevant to professionals navigating work authorization.

#immigration#visas#career
linkedin.comAdded Oct 12, 20260 opens
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AI & Assistive Tools

The Technology Behind LinkedIn's Fight Against AI Slop

A LinkedIn engineering leader describes how the platform detects and down-ranks generic, repetitive AI-generated posts in the feed, and what that means for members who post.

#ai-slop#linkedin#content-moderation
linkedin.comAdded Oct 9, 20260 opens
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Career & Professional Optimization

LinkedIn Jobs

The job board built into LinkedIn. Searching and applying is free; a complete profile improves which listings you see. Filters cover remote work, experience level, and date posted.

#job-board#job-search#general
linkedin.comAdded Sep 27, 20260 opens
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Guide
Career & Professional Optimization

Learning FAQ: LinkedIn Learning for Library Patrons

LinkedIn help page on getting LinkedIn Learning through your public library card.

Why I recommend it: LinkedIn Learning is normally paid; this route is free only if your library offers it.

#linkedin#learning#courses
linkedin.comAdded Sep 24, 20260 opens
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Career & Professional Optimization

LinkedIn Expands Verification Features

LinkedIn's announcement that members can verify the experience of people they worked or studied with, and companies get more control over who claims to work there.

Why I recommend it: Worth doing if you are job hunting: verified experience helps against fake profiles. This is LinkedIn's own announcement.

#linkedin#verification#personal-brand
news.linkedin.comAdded Sep 24, 20260 opens
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Career & Professional Optimization

Discover New Opportunities with AI-Powered Job Search (LinkedIn)

LinkedIn's own free guide to its AI job search, including how to describe the role you want in plain language instead of guessing keywords.

Why I recommend it: Two minutes here changes what LinkedIn shows you all week.

#ai#career-advice#free
linkedin.comAdded Sep 15, 20260 opens
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Career & Professional Optimization

Is AI Making It Harder to Start Over or Land Your First Job?

A free article on why breaking in or changing careers feels harder right now, with what job seekers can control in an AI-heavy hiring market.

Why I recommend it: Reassuring and practical if the search is knocking your confidence.

#ai#career-advice#career-change
linkedin.comAdded Sep 15, 20260 opens
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Career & Professional Optimization

How to optimize LinkedIn articles for engagement and AI visibility

A LinkedIn article on structuring long-form LinkedIn posts so they get read by people and surfaced by AI search tools — headlines, formatting, and keyword choices.

Why I recommend it: Worth ten minutes if you post on LinkedIn at all. Being findable by AI search is quickly becoming part of being findable, period.

#linkedin#personal-branding#article
linkedin.comAdded Sep 14, 20260 opens
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Interview Prep

I interviewed over 100 companies in a year

A LinkedIn article by Alex Pyatkovsky on what interviewing with more than 100 companies in a single year revealed about how hiring processes really work.

Why I recommend it: A first-hand account of a long search. Useful for calibrating expectations.

#article#career#hiring
linkedin.comAdded Sep 13, 20260 opens
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AI & Assistive Tools

RAG in Plain English

Tiffany Teasley explains retrieval-augmented generation without the jargon: how an AI model looks things up in your own documents before answering, and why that matters for accuracy.

Why I recommend it: If you can explain RAG in one sentence in an interview, you already sound more current than most candidates.

#ai#ai-tools#article
linkedin.comAdded Sep 12, 20260 opens
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Resume Help

Why 62% of Employers Are Firing New Hires, and What That Means for Your CV

Kirsten Visman on the rise in early terminations of new hires, the mismatch between how people describe their skills and what the job actually needs, and how to write a CV that survives the first 90 days.

Why I recommend it: Overselling a skill gets you hired and then fired. Write the resume you can defend on day one.

#article#career#cv
linkedin.comAdded Sep 12, 20260 opens
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Technology & Ethics

How My Neurodivergent Brain Works

A first-person account of how one professional's neurodivergent brain works day to day, and what support and communication actually help at work.

Why I recommend it: Read this before you assume you know what accommodation means. Plain, specific and written by the person living it.

#accessibility#ai ethics#article
linkedin.comAdded Sep 11, 20261 opens
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Career & Professional Optimization

You're Wasting Some of Your Best Profile Real Estate

Zoë Hartsfield on the underused parts of a LinkedIn profile and how to rewrite them so they work for you instead of sitting empty.

Why I recommend it: Most people fill in the headline and stop. Fifteen minutes on the sections she names does more for your inbound than another round of applications.

#article#career#career-advice
linkedin.comAdded Sep 11, 20260 opens
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Career & Professional Optimization

Networking Is On Your To-Do List. Here's How to Actually Start

Catherine Fisher's practical guide to starting a networking habit when the task keeps sliding down your list.

Why I recommend it: Networking fails when it is a vague goal. Pick two people a week and send one honest message each — that is the whole practice.

#article#career#career-development
linkedin.comAdded Sep 10, 20260 opens
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People to Follow

Basia Kubicka on LinkedIn Learning

Career and personal-branding courses taught by Basia Kubicka through LinkedIn Learning.

Why I recommend it: Great starting point if you want a structured course on career visibility from a LinkedIn Learning instructor.

#career#course#expert
linkedin.comAdded Sep 10, 20260 opens
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People to Follow

Janine Vanderburg

Leader in age-inclusive hiring and workforce advocacy, sharing research and practical guidance on ending age discrimination at work.

Why I recommend it: If you are over 50 and job searching, her feed will tell you what is bias and what is fixable in your own materials.

#advocacy#age-inclusive-hiring#ageism
linkedin.comAdded Sep 10, 20260 opens
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Career & Professional Optimization

LinkedIn Research: Gen Z Networking Confidence Gap

LinkedIn News research finding that Gen Z professionals increasingly influence business decisions, yet 72% say they lack the confidence to turn contacts into career opportunities.

Why I recommend it: I use this one to normalize the awkwardness of networking. If nearly three quarters of early-career people feel the same way, the problem is practice, not personality.

#article#career#career-development
news.linkedin.comAdded Sep 9, 20260 opens
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Career & Professional Optimization

5 Things to Pay Attention to on LinkedIn During a Career Transition

A practical LinkedIn article on what actually matters on your profile and feed while you are between roles or changing direction.

Why I recommend it: Short and specific. If you are mid-transition and your profile still describes the job you left, start here.

#article#career#career-change
linkedin.comAdded Sep 9, 20260 opens
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Career & Professional Optimization

Why Job Architecture Is Failing Us

Lance Haun on how rigid job architecture and title structures break down for modern roles, and what that means for workers and employers.

Why I recommend it: Read this if you have ever been told your work does not fit any existing title. It explains a system problem people usually blame themselves for.

#article#career#career-development
linkedin.comAdded Sep 9, 20261 opens
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Career & Professional Optimization

How to Spot Remote Roles and Build Your Career — Michelle Coulson

LinkedIn article from Michelle Coulson on identifying remote positions, asking the right questions in interviews, and building a career while working from anywhere.

Why I recommend it: Remote work is still a differentiator, but not every "remote-friendly" job is what it seems. Coulson gives practical signals to look for before you accept.

#article#career#career-advice
linkedin.comAdded Sep 9, 20260 opens
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Technology & Ethics

The Content Creator Who Never Existed

Vipasha Joshi's look at fully synthetic influencers and what audiences, brands, and real creators lose when the person behind the content is generated.

Why I recommend it: Worth reading if you are building an audience. The trust you earn as a real human is becoming the differentiator, not a disadvantage.

#ai#ai ethics#ai-ethics
linkedin.comAdded Sep 8, 20260 opens
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Interview Prep

If You Don't Get an Offer, It Doesn't Mean You Did Something Wrong

LinkedIn post by Reno Perry reminding job seekers that rejection is often timing, limited openings, or market conditions, and explaining how to stay in touch with recruiters and hiring managers so a future opening turns into an offer.

Why I recommend it: The relationship does not end at rejection. A gracious follow-up keeps you front of mind when the right role opens.

#article#career#follow-up
linkedin.comAdded Sep 4, 20260 opens