Why you should reply to your DMs on LinkedIn

There’s a saying making the rounds online that LinkedIn has become a mass grave of ghost jobs and AI-generated content. The idea behind it is that Easy Apply jobs receive no responses, AI slop is flooding our feeds, and connections ghost each other in the inbox. In a quite meta fashion, the saying has become a recurring topic on the very platform it critiques. Recently, I published a post about how my LinkedIn green flag is that “I always respond to messages from my connections.” I called out the behavior that we had become too accustomed to on LinkedIn, of accepting connection requests but...