A young computer scientist was looking for work. So “hacked” LinkedIn to always receive offers first

The youth of generation Z face serious difficulties in starting their work career in a labor market so competitivein which for Each job offer hundreds or thousands of candidates are presented. Find The slightest advantage To highlight in job requests it is fundamental.

Michael Yan, a 25 -year -old founder and CEO from Simplify, has shared A trick on LinkedIn which allowed him to receive job offers from large companies such as Meta, Microsoft and Google. This method allowed him to access before the rest of vacancies candidates, thus increasing the possibilities of being hired Faced with other candidates.

Yan’s trick. Like Yan told to Business InsiderIn 2018, the young manager was in his first year of computer science at Stanford University and was looking for companies to do his first practices.

Given its technological training, Yan warned that the URL address of the LinkedIn Employment Section showed an “86400”. That number is not accidental: it is the number of seconds that have 24 hours a day. Therefore, when Yan asked LinkedIn the job offers of “the last 24 hours”, he always showed him those that had been published the day before, not in the last hours.

A simple change to be the first. From that discovery, Yan accessed LinkedI’s employment tab and made a search for the professional profile that demanded and applied the filter “publication date” to “last 24 hours”. Then, the number “86400” of the URL address in the browser bar for “3600” changed, which is the seconds that have an hour.

In this simple way, the young candidate “hacked” LinkedIn’s job search obtaining the offers published in the last hour, so that always He was one of the first candidates in postulating for vacancies. “I got job offers in Meta and Google because I postulated offers a few hours after they were published,” said the young manager in his publication.

Access to better opportunities. Yan discovered that manually modifying these URLs could access the newest offers before other users, which placed their curriculum among the first in the list, causing their hiring options to improve considerably.

Although this trick does not guarantee that a company hires someone for a position for which It is not preparedit does offer an important advantage in the selection process. Many companies establish an order of arrival to review the candidacies, so being among the first to apply will place you among the first to do your job interview. That served him to do your practices In the best technological companies.

Any advantage is welcome. According to a report of Handshake of 2024, 57 % of the Z generation that will be incorporated into the labor market in 2025 is pessimistic about the start of its careers. 63% ensure that pessimism comes from an extremely competitive labor market. The data suggests that these newly graduated young people have already sent 24 % more employment requests than last year students of the previous year.

Although skills and experience remain crucial, response time can be decisive to advance the selection. According The published by Business InsiderAndrew McCashill, expert in professional racing in LinkedIn, said that “being one of the first to run, especially for jobs you really want or for those who are super qualified, should undoubtedly be part of a job search strategy.”

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