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 ...

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.

Your LinkedIn banner is visible on your LinkedIn profile, appearing as a sort of header for your profile. To change the banner, you'll have to upload a new image into the header.

She explained: "LinkedIn is a platform that's made for networking and connecting with people, and we do that because it's going to help us out in some way.