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I am looking for new jobs as a Cloud Engineer. Being privacy conscious makes the job hunt relatively hard. I don't use LinkedIn. But most companies publish their openings on websites like this and almost all of them are a privacy nightmare.

As soon as you make an account on them, you are bombarded with thousands of emails and targeted ads. But if I made a temporary email for this purpose, I feel I might get blacklisted.

Honestly I feel kind of sad about today's corporate field.

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[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Just a warning that LinkedIn and the like try to link your private and corporate information.

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Its true but they also aren't accounting for people actively trying to prevent that. Like someone else said below, dedicated email, dedicated phone number, use containers in your browser, use a work profile on your phone, etc. It may raise red flags somewhere but it is what it is.

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That’s what I do, but they tied my work email to my LinkedIn profile anyway… I keep my personal life offline aside from work and use pseudonyms on systems like this, so they aren’t linking the rest of my life, but they didn’t have any issues tying down my professional identity.

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Like they went and investigated you to find out what your work email is and then applied it to your profile without your consent?

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

It’s not in my profile, but if you search my work address, my profile is the single result.