"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 ...

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.