Unemployed people who are open to work are now being transparent about their urgent need for a new role, adorning their profiles with a new LinkedIn banner that reads “#Desperate.” ...

LinkedIn's Open to Work feature allows you to be shown as a priority in recruiters' searches since you are actively searching and open to work. However, a former Google recruiter has advised job ...

It's not uncommon to see an #OpenToWork circle around a profile picture on LinkedIn, but one hopeful hire is standing out with a new banner choice that sends a strong message. Courtney Summer ...

Courtney Summer Myers' LinkedIn post with a #Desperate banner went viral, gaining 147,000 likes. The post reignited the "Open to Work" banner debate, a tool seen as both helpful and desperate.

OK, that's enough self-congratulating. In today's big story, why LinkedIn's #opentowork banner is so controversial. What's on deck: But first, I'm low-key looking for a job. If this was forwarded ...

“It is the biggest red flag”: Nolan Church, former Google recruiter and current CEO of FairComp, on LinkedIn ‘open to work’ banner. When searching for a new job on LinkedIn, candidates ...

LinkedIn’s May 2011 initial public offering ... He froze development on new features so engineers could overhaul the computing architecture. That may not sound like a big deal, but in the ...

The University of Plymouth alumni created her own LinkedIn banner: bright pink with #DESPERATE emblazoned across it, displayed beneath her profile photo. Her idea is based on other banners made ...

A LinkedIn user has gone viral after she recently paired a "#Desperate" banner with her profile image on the social networking website. Courtney Myers, a graphic designer and illustrator based in ...

The ‘Open to Work’ badge on LinkedIn gets a bad rap, say some experts. Here’s how you should be using it in your job search. After social media manager Jensen Rubinstein was let go from her ...