Unemployed people are no longer afraid to look desperate. A new trend on LinkedIn has prompted users open for work to use a banner reading "#Desperate" on their profiles to signal to employers ...

That was until late 2014. That’s when LinkedIn added a feature that can make your profile stand out and put itself in a category of one. That feature is the custom background.

Courtney Summer Myers' LinkedIn post with a #Desperate banner went viral, gaining 147,000 likes. The post reignited the "Open to Work" banner debate, a tool seen as both helpful and desperate.

If you have a LinkedIn profile -- and I certainly hope you do -- you're going to want to let people know about it. You can do that easily by sharing the website address (URL) of your LinkedIn profile.

How to find your LinkedIn URL 1. Go to the LinkedIn website and log in with your username and password. 2. In the toolbar running across the top of your home screen, click the Me button under your ...