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.

According to the outlet, over 33 million people on the platform currently use the banner. Also, those with the banner are “20% more likely to get messages from the LinkedIn community at large”.

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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.