Please stop putting “(We’re hiring!)” in your LinkedIn position title?

Question

I just want to go on record and say I find this to be an insufferable exercise in virtue signaling. Has anyone ever read this in a job title and applied to the company because of it? Or is it just a way to show that you have hiring power? If you&rsquo;re a founder who does this, please stop. If you&rsquo;re not a founder and you&rsquo;re doing it, consider getting a tattoo of your company logo instead.Sorry, rant over. This has always been a pet peeve of mine. Please don&rsquo;t do this there.

bryanrasmussen · Accepted Answer

So, actually the Ask HN should have been Please don't put (We're Hiring) in LinkedIn job title.I actually had some trouble parsing what you said, as I thought of job title as the title of a job post, but you actually mean it as being part of a person's Job, in other words Position, title.

karmakaze · Answer

I'm on the fence about this one. On the one hand I don't like it the same way I don't like "Open" signs that never turn off. On the other, if hiring fell under my responsibility and had any uptick in applicants, I'd want to use it.