LinkedIn want to show a customer that they got “great value for money” by getting lots of applicants.This is one of those classic cases where the incentives for LinkedIn, their users (you) and their customers (the hiring companies) don’t align: In this situation it’s more effective for everyone involved to have a small number of applicants who are all a great fit for the role, rather than 100s, many of whom are not suitable. In the case of a post with many vacancies, like Amazon warehouse operators then this could be a valid strategy, however for the roles we care about in software development, this is rarely the case, usually it’s one or two vacancies. will trick you into thinking you are making lots of good applications because “LinkedIn made this feature, it must work and be great”.

could easily get caught in the “delete 50% of these because there are too many applications”.will look like everyone else’s Easy Apply application, you won’t stand out at all.Too many applications is almost as bad as no applications. The number one metric for any job board is “Applications per ad”, which sounds sensible doesn’t it? You put a job advert out in to the world and you want as many applicants as possible to give you the best chance of finding the right person. LinkedIn Easy Apply wasn’t made to help you get a job, it was made to make LinkedIn look better to people paying them for job listings.

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