10 features I wish Linkedin would build (or improve)

If you know me, you know I enjoy the Linkedin platform.

From my throwbacks, to my unhinged corporate humor (attempted humor*), to my core millennial experiences, and everything in between. (I promise I do use it for actual serious networking… for those who have been following me for a while. I’m not always the unserious corporate millennial that I am).

But there are some things about Linkedin that just don’t work for me. Maybe you too? Little things here and there that have a relatively big impact on my experience.

So let’s talk about it.

1. Comments experience: If I make a comment on a post, I do not want to be notified whenever anyone comments or engages. Yes, I can manually turn off notifications on the post, but why should I need to do that in the first place? At the maximum, it should at least be only for people you have as mutual connections. But even that’s excessive. If I want to re-engage, I’ll go back to the post.

2. Likes experience: Similar to the above, if I ‘Like’ a post, I don’t need to know that others reacted, or even commented. Same thing. Feels like overload. Please, Linkedin, offer other options!

3. Job postings: I only use Linkedin for job stuff if it leads me to the organization’s career page. Then I know it’s legit. But back to the initial reason for #3: I dont think it’s important the # of people who clicked apply on a job post. What’s the point? Give us more anxiety about even applying in the first place? Plus, how accurate is that? What are they actually measuring in that number?

4. Reactions: They are glitchy sometimes, on mobile especially. I’ll find myself reacting to my own comment, which isn’t correct. Anyway, Linkedin, fix these reaction glitches.

5. Who viewed your profile: I have mixed feelings about this. One the one hand, I see the upsell opportunity they have with the Premium accounts, but on the other, the platform is centered around connecting and networking, so shouldn’t they open this up just a little bit? Feels limiting.

6. Creator program: Linkedin should pay creators for posting on the platform. I don’t know the first thing about the creator economy, but there’s gotta be a way. Someone, make that happen.

7. Search: Put search at the front of the experience. I’m not sure what that would look like, product-wise, but I’m always telling people to use search. It’s a really powerful tool on Linkedin and you can uncover so much. I also like the amount of filter options they have. But Search feels like an after thought; they should highlight it more and make it central to the experience.

8. Linkedin Premium and college students: Make Linkedin Premium free or at a discount for college students. I know there are some perks out there through campus partnerships, but from Linkedin directly, they should give students access to Premium while the student’s in college.

9. Messaging: It’s clunky, annoying, InMail this, InMail that. I wish we could turn messaging off, to be honest, which probably sounds counter to what I shared in #5, but I just don’t like the messaging experience.

10. More gamification: I’d love to see more. From a content creation standpoint, earn badges along the way at various milestone. Take a page out of Duolingo’s book; keeping you engaged along every step of your journey, in a fun, personalized, gamified way.

So those are my 10. What are some of your must-haves or must-fixes for Linkedin? What do you love? What do you not love?

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