Permission to Clean the LinkedIn Feed

Lookit. Who am I to say that your presence on LinkedIn is key (KEY!) to your job search and not advocate for making it a place you’d actually want to be?!

The move?

When someone pops up in my feed with posts that don’t pertain to me or my clients, I head to their profile.

⇡ Click More. ⇢ Scroll down. ⇣ Click Unfollow. 👋🏽

Done.

🚨 Newsflash: If LinkedIn feels draining right now, your feed might be the problem—not you.

Most of us open LinkedIn and immediately feel behind, overwhelmed, or discouraged.

Promotions. Announcements. Advice that doesn't apply. Endless takes about "AI slop" (a phrase I loathe to even type).

Noise disguised as urgency.

But here's what I call the LinkedIn Pandora effect.

Back before Spotify and Apple Music took over, Pandora learned what you liked—and what you didn't. The more you engaged, the better it got at serving up music you actually wanted to hear.

LinkedIn works the same way, and its algorithm shows you more of what you engage with.

If your feed is full of content that leaves you anxious, frustrated, or stuck, LinkedIn assumes that's what you want more of.

Sir! No, thank you. Get out!

So change the inputs.

🍸 Unfollow people whose content you don't actually read.

🍸 Follow people who teach you something.

🍸 Engage with posts that help you think differently about your work and your search.

Curating your feed isn't frivolous. It's strategic. (And you don’t need to disconnect from anyone!)

Because when LinkedIn feels relevant and human again, you show up differently.

You comment more. ⇢ You connect more. ⇢ You stop lurking and start participating.

✨ And that's where opportunities actually happen. ✨

Your job search doesn't just depend on what you post.

It also depends on what you choose to pay attention to. ✌🏽