The most popular way to find a job may be the worst strategy

In 2020, one in four American adults says they or someone in their household lost their job due to the pandemic. Fifteen percent say this happened to them personally. A lucky few have gotten their jobs back, but the rest are left looking for work in a struggling economy.To find a job they love — or even just work that pays the bills — about 75 percent of job seekers will turn to the networking platform LinkedIn. But according to some striking new research, this wildly popular job searching tool may be doing more harm than good.Michael Johnson, an organizational behavior researcher and management expert at Louisiana State University, says even though the majority of job seekers use LinkedIn, little study has been devoted to figuring out how well it works.To fill this research gap, Johnson and his team tracked the LinkedIn job searches of 2,738 people over five weeks. Through surveys, scientists discovered time using LinkedIn hurts people’s confidence and leaves them depleted of willpower. In turn, the more they use LinkedIn, the less likely they are to find a job.”Searching for a job through LinkedIn can have a potentially detrimental effect on people’s mental health and their ability…
Read More