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.

"There’s been a lot of discourse about how the #OpenToWork banner puts off recruiters and hiring managers, because it makes you come across as desperate," Myers, 28, wrote on LinkedIn. "Frankly ...

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A graphic designer has gone viral on LinkedIn with a bold new '#Desperate' banner, clapping back at claims that the 'Open to Work' feature makes job-seekers appear desperate.

Then in 2020, as part of LinkedIn’s redesign, users were left with a plain gray-on-gray image, which unfortunately is not a design that is approachable or personalized.

Prior to this, bootstrapped Dribbble was profitable — revenues come from its job boards, advertising and member subscriptions, kind of like a LinkedIn aimed at the design community — and it ...