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. The ...

After getting frustrated from job hunting, Courtney Summer Myers decided to create a #Desperate banner on LinkedIn to fight stigma around the #OpentoWork banner. The result went viral.