This image pretty much captures what using LinkedIn job search feels like lately:
At this point, I’m not even sure new jobs exist.
What’s exhausting isn’t just the repetition — it’s the illusion of progress. Job seekers are encouraged to “keep applying” and “stay consistent,” while the platform keeps resurfacing the same listings for weeks or even months.
It stops feeling like discovery and starts feeling like a loop.
I’ve honestly started hiding parts of the feed locally just to make the experience tolerable. It doesn’t fix hiring, but at least it reduces the mental drain of opening the same page every day and expecting different results.
This doesn’t feel accidental.
LinkedIn is heavily optimized for promoted listings and recruiter workflows — not for candidates trying to find genuinely new opportunities.
Thinking how others here are experiencing this:
Are you also seeing the same roles repeatedly?
Have you found any way to make job searching feel less exhausting?
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These are some practical things you can do to get out of that loop:
URL hack for fresh jobs: Search jobs, filter to "Past 24 hours" (URL has 86400), replace with 3600 for last hour or 900 for 15 minutes—reveals truly new listings.
Disable personalization: Go to Settings > Data privacy > Job seeking preferences > Turn off "Personalize job recommendations" to reduce repeats and sponsored bias; sort by "Date posted" (most recent).
Hide aggressively: Click "Hide" or "Not interested" on repeats, including company/location options, to train the algorithm.
This is really useful, especially the URL time-filter trick. Appreciate you sharing this.