Rachel Meade-Smith
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118 appearances
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first heard Jan 2026
last heard 15 Jan
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We have a whole piece in the book about LinkedIn and about how it's this space where you can be rewarded for your honesty and vulnerability if you maintain the rules, if you play within the bounds of professionalism and the rules, the status quo of LinkedIn.
You know, if you're willing to toe the line and say, I'm going to use this opportunity to tell my story, but also somehow, you know, make it reflect well on me as someone who is employable, then that is going to work within the bounds of LinkedIn.
You have to know what's going to play and what's not on that platform.
There are rules there.
I think our spouses, our partners...
They're going to sometimes act just like everyone else.
Like, you know, if you're looking for work for a long time and you can't find something in your field, so you decide to take a service job, like they might judge you for that too.
Just like, you know, your parent or your sibling or whoever.
I like what you said, Phoebe, about making your job searching work.
visible like that this is labor you're doing if you're looking for a job full-time like you're working full-time you're just not getting paid for it and you're not getting any of the you know other stuff that comes along with having a job like respect and benefits and community so I think having to obviously you shouldn't have to explain to your to your partner why you're working so hard or what that work looks like but if there are ways to share that in a you know
in some way that makes you feel good about it instead of like having to put together a presentation at the end of every day.
I certainly don't want to assume that hiring managers and recruiters don't remember that there are humans on the other side because I talk to hiring managers all the time and of course they do and they want to find the best people and they want folks to have a good experience.
I think the problem is that the forces that are swirling together right now are making it hard for everyone.
So folks who are hiring are dealing with their own resource shortages.
If you can
not leave people hanging, that goes a really, really long way.
So even if it's honestly an automated rejection is better than no rejection, I think.
On the other side of things, talking about like best case scenario,
I know some folks who run a small design studio called Frog House and they have done something totally incredible, which is they were hiring for a role.
They're a small studio.
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