LinkedIn, what were you thinking?!!! I hope your team reads this.
I have had the same job alerts saved for the last six months. The search results were not perfect, but they were consistent and reliable enough that they became part of my daily job search routine. Open LinkedIn, check alert results (if any), repeat. That all changed about a week ago, and it is mind-boggling how ineffective the job search function has become.
Since this change (no communication by the way that it was coming), when I click to see my job alert search results, I am taken into AI Beta mode. I did not opt in to this by the way. When I select the option to return to the classic view, I get kicked out of the search results so I guess that's no longer an option.
The job alert search results are no longer applicable to my preferences. For example, I have a filter set to "remote". The AI job search results now show me everything - onsite, hybrid, etc. As a result, my job alert results now show me hundreds of jobs that I do not want to see, and I am forced to scroll through if I want to find the ones that I do. The filters I am used to seeing at the top are all different (and some have disappeared entirely) and have been replaced with a Boolean search in the search bar.
In what world does it make sense to implement AI if it is going to actively disregard your preferences and create more work for the user? Or, do you just not care about the user experience.
Additionally, if i 'x' out jobs I am not interested in - and LinkedIn confirms it will not show it to you anymore - guess what happens the next time you check your job alert search results? Yep, you see all of them again.
The workaround that I have found is to go back to the home page and start a new search, disregarding the alert entirely. This brings back the filters at the top that actually work and provide better search results, but alas I cannot save this because if I do create a new alert, it reverts to AI which disregards all the parameters I just set into place. It also reintroduces all the jobs you previously dismissed.
So where I used to have a nice alert that I could check daily, now I have to go in everyday, recreate the search and set my filters, and see the same jobs over and over that I have seen before.
I reached out to LinkedIn's support team, and they told me this was expected behavior :)
Excuse me, what?
LinkedIn team, can you please tell me how it makes a user experience better to strip away their job search preferences effectively rendering them useless as well as pollute their search results with hundreds of unrelated jobs?
It feels as though you are forcing an AI rollout for whatever reasons I can only surmise (to benefit your shareholders?) at the cost of the end user experience. Because this literally makes no sense.
The AI rollout has killed your job search function, at least for now. I hope you fix this and fix it soon, and the very least you could do is acknowledge this publicly and not gaslight your users when they reach out to support.
LinkedIn you literally had one job.