It’s common knowledge that you should customize your resume to fit whatever position you are applying to. These are some of the reasons you may not want to use LinkedIn to find a job. If you want to spend weeks and even months looking for a job, then LinkedIn is a good place to find a job. Since you’re already active on the platform, why wouldn’t you use it for an additional purpose, too? But it’s worth asking, is LinkedIn the best place to find and apply to jobs on? More often than not, the answer is no. Thanks to their job board, many also use LinkedIn to find a job. Many people use LinkedIn as a way to stay connected with colleagues, peers, and thought leaders. And you also probably keep it updated with details about yourself and your previous jobs to hopefully capture the attention of a hiring manager. (And yes, the daily emails are a super annoying side effect!) Of course, this will prevent me from seeing opportunities at startups that did not make these lists, however ~446 companies have provided more enough opportunity to get me started.If you’re like millions of job seekers around the world, you probably have a LinkedIn profile. In a way, I've found this acts as a "saved search filter" function. While the job alert feature is intended for email alerts, I am able to click on the saved alert from the LinkedIn website, and LinkedIn will bring me to the Jobs page and pre-fills the search using the alert's criteria. Yes, this took an unreasonably long time (my alert includes ~446 companies I searched for and added to the alert "by hand!") but at least now I know that each company on the list is a startup. I ended up using these two lists of "rocket ship" startups to create a job alert on LinkedIn by company.
Unfortunately, I never found a way to search only for startups, but I did create a workaround for myself that I've been happy with so far. Replying to my own post with a potential solution I came up with in case someone finds this post via the search bar in the future.
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