I know this might come across as a very impractical expectation but I wanted to hear from people who have a fulfilling career and also a sense for privacy: How did you do it?

I’ve recently had trouble finding a new job in the tech sector. So far I’ve been doing alright without LinkedIn, just directly applying to companies, but it seems less successful now. So I thought what the hell, might have to do this after all. After I’ve made an account I got quickly banned for logging in once from a VPN connection. Only way to get unbanned is to give my government ID to them - but that really rubs me the wrong way (so many leaks of IDs recently and all).

I’m remaining banned for the moment, contemplating what impact this might have on my career. It gives me a fair bit of anxiety, considering that my sense of where my boundaries are seems to be deemed unacceptable by the monopoly of international job markets. Should I just give in and send my ID? Am I delusional?

As always, I appreciate the discourse of this wonderfully decentralized community we have here on lemmy! ☺️

  • SitD@lemy.lolOP
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    10 hours ago

    My anxiety about giving my ID stems from this dissimilarity with real life: If i go to a career fair, i might need to show a ticket but often there’s no need to show anything. This is a career site so their request for data should be at the same level. However they request as much data as an airport, which has much higher requirements to achieve passenger safety.

    I guess if they don’t fight bots their platform will suffer a lot. But if the ID check is there for this reason, they didn’t have to make me pass 30 captchas… I guess the hoops that you have to go through online are just becoming a bit much for my taste.

    Thanks for reaching out though, I’ll reconsider my stance. I’ll also check what a professional association is and which one fits me 😄