Disagree. LinkedIn have too many inactive job and mostly you are wasting time applying to a job which recruiter won't response to you, while jobstreet posted job are likely to land a response from recruiter. For LinkedIn, I would suggest you to response to recruiter invitation rather than applying on their posted job.

well it's not all bad, if u look deeper...

there's opportunity even in pandemic time

Jobstreet  or LinkedIn whatever platforms...

I agree to an extent. LinkedIn MY seems to be very quiet when it comes to self-submit job applications. You submit a job application on LinkedIn Malaysia you get 0 replies and views.
Whereas when I was abroad in England, recruiters are more active and responsive. They willget you for an interview, put on KIV, or tell you no outright. Sometimes they may even call me up and give constructive criticisms on what to do on my application. I don't any of these on Malaysia LinkedIn.

Yes that's why I said it's easier said than done, but not impossible. In the last 9 years, I've had maybe 30 referrals, of which 10 got me interviews and 5 got me job offers although I turned down 2 of them.

So statistically about 30-35% success rate in getting interviews from referrals. Also the referrals are seldom direct referrals, it's frequently a friend of a friend who heard that this company is looking for so and so.

However if I compare to applying blindly to LinkedIn or Jobstreet or any of the other job boards? I'm getting interviews less than 1% of the time from blind job applications and 0 job offers.

Put the effort in networking. What I learned is to make a list of 100 people, whatsapp 2 people per week. Just say hi, keeping in touch. At least when you're starting to look for a job you won't be contacting people out of the blue that you've never contacted in many years. My latest job offer came through a referral from a guy I used to work with in 2015, we whatsapp 1-2 times in 2019, maybe once in 2020, and I got a job in 2021 through him.

Just sharing the things that worked for me over the years.

Don't giveup...just keep applying, you will get it one day. I being ghosted for many times(which included one which ghosted without offer letter after getting positive feedback from final interview) but I still keep applying.

not a freshgrad here. IMO linkedin and jobstreet's self submit job application is pretty shitty. But I'll have to say Linkedin did help me get a job through a job posting someone made via a normal post. And the most callback and IVs Ive gotten during this pandemic are from the companies direct website application.

Truth is spoken here, take note guys.
Also: LinkedIn is slowly turning into a sh*thole... if not already. Take it with a pinch of salt.

work in office policy for new joiner in KL office during this pandemic.

take it or leave it ?

comment guys...

Lot of low quality recruiters, most are from no-name Indian staffing companies and agencies.

And just generally it is becoming Facebook 2.0, look at the quality of the content. Most people just jerk and brag around. Yesterday when i opened the app, i saw a post of a girl cooking at home and bragging about her food how she could use the lessons she learnt at her workplace and implement it in her every day life, tagging her boss how grateful she is for working for the company.  

hahaha I feel you about the hassle of filling up those forms manually.
But another view is that because its such a hassle to apply, less people will be applying for the role hence higher chances of getting shortlisted.
Companies (i.e epf, bank negara) that use jobstreet and linkedin exclusively get over 1k applicants per role, so goodluck getting noticed.......

profession?

easily can start your own business.

no point work under other ppl.

start a small accountant firm for me, is really easy.
compare most other business.

low cost, but provided you have the skill.

try aim new type of customer

young online seller.

Did BP invited you for interview?

I got headhunted mostly through Linkedin..especially after you change your status to "Open To Work". So yes, no harm trying out Linkedin i guess.

This pandemic though has affected alot of people's jobs including mine.. i.e. salary cut etc. So sometimes its not he platform. Hence, i went into a part-time business (no need capital) as 2nd source income. Can potentially earn you Rm10k after 1 year hard work. Why not try. Pm me if interested

Now OnG is not looking good, Petronas, Shell, Exxon all hiring freeze.
Petronas no increment this.
But either there are still jobs. No harm trying them out.
On LinkedIn, it's more successful if you find the job post and add the hiring recruiter and send a message saying why you will be a good fit and bla bla bla.
The ones with easy apply, will never get back to you.

What is 10 years back?