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 ...

Some of the misgivings about the banner stem from the fact that it's still a relatively new feature. LinkedIn first rolled it out in June 2020, when tens of millions of Americans found themselves ...

"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 ...

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.

A LinkedIn user has gone viral after she recently paired a '#Desperate' banner with her profile image on the social networking website. Courtney Summer Myers spoke exclusively with PEOPLE about ...