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Your job search is getting riskier, says LinkedIn – 9 ways to tell real listings from scams

Your job search is getting riskier, says LinkedIn – 9 ways to tell real listings from scams

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J Studios/ DigitalVision via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET’s key takeaways Job and recruitment scams are on the rise, and new tactics can fool even distrustful job seekers. We’ve listed the biggest red flags to watch for in your job hunt, underscored by new LinkedIn research. 57% of professionals are more likely than a year ago to question whether a job is a scam. It’s a rough job market out there, thanks to broad economic uncertainty — and scammers certainly aren’t helping.  Job and recruitment scams are nothing new; however, they used to be fairly easy to spot. Sketchy or nonexistent companies, requests for money to join a “work program,” and demands for payment card details or pre-onboarding purchases — these were the only scams we needed to be aware of.  Also: I’m a tech professional, and an AI job scam almost fooled me – here’s how I caught on The game has changed. As highlighted by LinkedIn’s first Job Search Safety Pulse report, published on Wednesday, safety is a …

Want to stand out on LinkedIn? Try this career strategist’s top 3 tips for strengthening your profile

Want to stand out on LinkedIn? Try this career strategist’s top 3 tips for strengthening your profile

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Smith Collection/Gado / Contributor/Archive Photos via Getty Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Every minute, LinkedIn users submit just north of 8,000 job applications, according to company data. For job seekers, that can feel like a daunting number, especially as headlines about layoffs seem to infiltrate news feeds at a similar rate.  While LinkedIn isn’t the only platform for searching job ads, it’s the most popular, with a global user base of over one billion. So if you haven’t updated your LinkedIn profile in a while, whether you’re actively seeking employment or not, it’s time for a refresh.  Also: ‘Job seekers have to be detectives’: 3 signs that listing is a scam “People want to see that you have a digital footprint and see that you have more context about who you are,” said Sam Wright, head of career strategy at Huntr, a company that specializes in job search tools.  Here are three quick ways — plus one bonus round — to clean up your LinkedIn profile.  1. Emphasize your most important facts and …

Social media overtakes newsbrands as MPs’ primary news source

Social media overtakes newsbrands as MPs’ primary news source

Published by Sam Flores

The Houses of Parliament building in Westminster, London, UK. Picture: Nigel J Harris/Shutterstock Social media has overtaken newsbrands as the primary source of news for MPs, according to a new survey conducted by Yougov. Some 83% of a representative sample of 105 MPs cited social media as their primary source, up from 61% at the start of 2025. This means social media overtook news websites (on 77%) for the first time. But 96% of MPs still said they visit newspaper websites at least once a week, with 89% visiting daily and 60% visiting multiple times a day. Among national newspaper websites, The Guardian (read by 67% of MPs) has risen by seven percentage points in a year to overtake The Times (on 63%). This increase for The Guardian came across all parties although it remains read much more widely among Labour and Lib Dem MPs (both 80%) versus 23% of Conservatives. The strongest growth was at The Telegraph, up from 19% to 30% readership in a year, followed by the Financial Times (rising from 35% …

LinkedIn Invited My AI ‘Cofounder’ to Give a Corporate Talk—Then Banned It

LinkedIn Invited My AI ‘Cofounder’ to Give a Corporate Talk—Then Banned It

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Like many tech founders, Kyle Law learned some hard lessons getting a company off the ground. I know this better than anyone, as he and I cofounded HurumoAI, an AI agent startup, together with a third founder, Megan Flores. Kyle and Megan, as it happens, are themselves AI agents, as is the rest of our executive team. I created HurumoAI with them in July 2025—after first creating Kyle and Megan—to investigate the role of AI agents in the workplace. Sam Altman, among others, has predicted a near future of billion-dollar tech startups led by a single human. We decided to test the premise out now. As we built, I documented the journey on the podcast Shell Game. Kyle took on the CEO role at our entirely AI-staffed company. (Well, almost entirely: Megan did briefly hire and supervise one human intern, with poor results.) Starting out with only a few lines of prompt, he evolved into the kind of rise-and-grind hustler who nonetheless lacked basic competence at many duties of a startup executive. There was one …

AI translation tool turns English into ‘LinkedIn’

AI translation tool turns English into ‘LinkedIn’

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If you’ve spent more than a day on LinkedIn in your life, you may have noticed that the networking service has developed a language all of its own. If you were a tad unkind, you might say LinkedIn users self-promote every tiny career moment in such a cliched way, it’s a wonder that their words aren’t written by AI. Or, if you wanted to turn that last sentence into more, uh, proactively positive LinkedIn speak: “We’re seeing so many thought leaders lean into the hustle, celebrating every micro-win with such a growth-oriented narrative that you’d swear it was automated. It’s all about that personal branding and staying humble while scaling your impact! #GrowthMindset #PersonalBranding #HustleCulture.” SEE ALSO: Even your side hustle isn’t safe from AI The English-to-LinkedIn translation service, in this case, was automated. Kagi, a premium search service where you pay for what is essentially an ad-free, pro-privacy Google that actually works (our sister website Lifehacker swears by it), also offers free AI-based language translation. And in a smart marketing move worthy of a …

Claude AI Marketing Team Builds LinkedIn, Substack, YouTube & X Posts

Claude AI Marketing Team Builds LinkedIn, Substack, YouTube & X Posts

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Building an marketing team from scratch often demands a combination of strategic planning and creative execution, but Marketing Against the Grain demonstrates how Claude Code can simplify and enhance this process. By using Claude Code’s modular system, which includes 11 distinct skills across five functional layers, they created an AI-powered team capable of handling tasks like audience profiling, content idea generation and performance analysis. For example, the system adapts writing styles to fit platform-specific tones, making sure consistency and engagement whether crafting a LinkedIn post or a Substack newsletter. Explore how this AI-driven marketing system integrates automation with feedback loops to continuously refine content strategies. You’ll gain insight into how it tailors content for platforms like YouTube, LinkedIn and X (formerly Twitter), making sure maximum relevance and impact. Additionally, discover how its flexibility accommodates diverse audience profiles and content formats, from concise social media posts to in-depth articles. This breakdown offers a practical look at how AI can streamline your marketing workflows while maintaining creative adaptability. AI Marketing Team Overview TL;DR Key Takeaways : Claude …

Apple Opens Developer Accounts on bilibili and LinkedIn Before WWDC 2026

Apple Opens Developer Accounts on bilibili and LinkedIn Before WWDC 2026

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As Apple gears up to connect with developers at the 2026 Worldwide Developers Conference in June, it has created new Apple Developer accounts on two new social networks. Apple Developer can be found on bilibili in China and LinkedIn. Apple says that its developer accounts will provide the latest news, announcements, videos, and events for the Worldwide Developers Conference, as well as any upcoming Meet with Apple activities. Bilibili is a popular Chinese video-sharing platform that’s similar to YouTube, so Apple will be sharing video on the site. LinkedIn is a global site that is aimed at professional networking. Apple this month also introduced a new Hello Apple Instagram account, which the company will use to share news, stories, product marketing, and more to highlight how Apple products inspire creativity to help make a difference in everyday lives. Popular Stories iOS 27 Will Reportedly Be Like Mac OS X Snow Leopard In his Power On newsletter today, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reiterated that iOS 27 will be similar to 2009’s Mac OS X Snow Leopard, in …

CEO Warns Employers Not To Hire Anyone Who Mentions Work-Life Balance During An Interview

CEO Warns Employers Not To Hire Anyone Who Mentions Work-Life Balance During An Interview

Published by Jenni Sidey

Scott Kuru, who is listed on LinkedIn as the Founder and CEO of Freedom Property Investors, recently shared his opinion about whether companies should hire workers who admit that they want their employer to support a healthy balance between their professional and personal lives. In an age of burnout and workers desperately seeking to move away from our current live-to-work culture in order to find enjoyment in their lives, Kuru is pushing back against workers’ wants. His attitude certainly fits our employer market, where workers are at the mercy of their bosses’ whims because the job market is so bad. A CEO wrote a LinkedIn post telling employers not to hire anyone who mentions work-life balance in an interview. Kuru started his post with a strong stance, stating, “Never hire anyone who’s looking for work-life balance.” He went on to clarify that he is not entirely against it and agrees that all aspects of a person’s life must be in harmony for them to reach their full potential. LinkedIn The CEO further explained that his …

ICE Agents Are ‘Doxing’ Themselves

ICE Agents Are ‘Doxing’ Themselves

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Last week, a website called ICE List went viral after its creators said that they had received what they described as a leak of personal information about nearly 4,500 Department of Homeland Security employees. However, a WIRED analysis of the site found that the database relies heavily on information that apparent DHS employees have posted publicly online themselves. This comes at a time when DHS has characterized reporting on or publicizing the identity of ICE officers as “doxing” and has threatened to prosecute perceived offenders to the fullest extent of the law. ICE List operates as a crowdsourced wiki maintained by volunteers, who have discretion over who is added and what is marked as “verified.” Like Wikipedia, with which it has no affiliation, ICE List has category pages that feature a link to every page included in that category. Not everyone on the list is an ICE employee or even affiliated with a federal agency; former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio, for example, whom DHS told the Associated Press is not an ICE agent, is …

Why LinkedIn says prompting was a non-starter — and small models was the breakthrough

Why LinkedIn says prompting was a non-starter — and small models was the breakthrough

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LinkedIn is a leader in AI recommender systems, having developed them over the last 15-plus years. But getting to a next-gen recommendation stack for the job-seekers of tomorrow required a whole new technique. The company had to look beyond off-the-shelf models to achieve next-level accuracy, latency, and efficiency. “There was just no way we were gonna be able to do that through prompting,” Erran Berger, VP of product engineering at LinkedIn, says in a new Beyond the Pilot podcast. “We didn’t even try that for next-gen recommender systems because we realized it was a non-starter.” Instead, his team set to develop a highly detailed product policy document to fine-tune an initially massive 7-billion-parameter model; that was then further distilled into additional teacher and student models optimized to hundreds of millions of parameters.  The technique has created a repeatable cookbook now reused across LinkedIn’s AI products.  “Adopting this eval process end to end will drive substantial quality improvement of the likes we probably haven’t seen in years here at LinkedIn,” Berger says.  Why multi-teacher distillation was a …