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  • How to Find the Love of Your Life on LinkedIn

    How to Find the Love of Your Life on LinkedIn

    Call us greedy, call us Oliver Twists, but over here, we believe whatever’s worth doing is worth doing well. LinkedIn might be a great career platform to access jobs and journal your achievements for the world to see, but we need them to pull on their big boy pants and realise it’s also the perfect dating app in the making.

    Who really needs to know their potential partner’s height, beliefs and drug habits when with LinkedIn, you can find out if they’re a team player, great at communication or a top earner in their field. Here’s how to find the love of your life on the most professional app in existence.

    Send a cold DM

    As soon as you’ve scoured the app and found upward moving people to connect and lock lips with, slide right into their DMs like you would on Twitter.

    Be the clown you are

    Nothing’s funny right now, but how do you expect to find the love of your life on an app as serious as LinkedIn if you can’t even dangle the promise of bringing joy and laughter into their lives? 

    Spin tales

    We know you’ve seen the tales by office lamp people tell on LinkedIn. The people spinning those tales don’t have two heads. Give yours a romantic twist and you’re all set.

    Be in the comments

    Believe it or not, you’re interviewing for the role of their Biggest Cheerleader, and they’ll need to know you’re a serious applicant. The only way to do this is to get your digital finger foam and reply all their tales with “Deep”, “Insightful”, “Such a pioneer” and more.

    Work on your elevator pitch

    Or as we like to call it in dating, flirting. You’ve sent cold DMs, and you’ve tarried in the comments. Don’t let all your effort go to waste simply because there’s nothing sweet about “You’re the sugar in my tea”.

    Go through their recommendations

    You can tell a lot about a person from the way their coworker (from that one internship they did in uni) speaks of them. Do they work like tomorrow will never come? Are they cultist aspirants who like their coffee black?

    Take it to the streets

    This just might be the most important of all. The connection you have online might be great, but what happens when you meet and they don’t look at you like the moon and stars shine out your eyeballs? What then?

    If LinkedIn isn’t for you, that’s fine, we also know: How to Get Into a Relationship From the Comfort of Your Home

  • 5 Types Of Nigerians You’ll Meet On LinkedIn

    5 Types Of Nigerians You’ll Meet On LinkedIn

    If you use LinkedIn, you’ll understand that Nigerians on that space are another a different breed entirely. And trust us to tell things as they are. Here’s a list of Nigerians you’re likely to encounter on LinkedIn. Which one have you come across? More importantly, which one are you?

    1. The professional ones.

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    Yes, everyone on LinkedIn is professional in their own little way, it’s just that the aspect they are ‘professing’ in differs a lot. But you see these professional ones eh, they are the Nigerians who use LinkedIn the way the creators of LinkedIn designed for it to be used. They post job offers, tips to help you get a job, ways to get ahead in your career, etc.

    2. The fashionistas with a lirru bit of motivational quotes.

    I honestly want these people to pick one struggle and stand by it. If you want to slay, slay with your chest and leave motivational quotes alone. Don’t post a studio picture where you look like Naomi Campbell from Obalende and start telling us that success is a combination of hard work and dedication and whatnot. Slay your slay, nobody will beat you.

    3. The motivational speakers.

    If you throw a stone into LinkedIn, you’re likely to hit a motivational speaker. Omo, those people are everywhere. Stories of how somebody wanted to give up after 800 applications and they finally got a callback. Stories of how Jeff Bezos kinikan. Please dear, leave matter for Matthias. How your tory fit gimme job, na im I dey find.

    4. The magnifiers.

    Honestly, LinkedIn is full of people who magnify their accomplishments. And I really don’t have a problem with that. After all, we are all hustlers trying to sell market. What me I don’t like is when you buy N20 biscuit for your neighbour’s child and you add to your bio that you “Sated the congenital hunger of a toddler and helped to strengthen the potential of a future generation.” Abeg. LinkedIn is professional make-up, yes, but sometimes the lipstick is too much. Clean it small.

    5. And finally, those who came to date.

    “Date” is to put it mildly, sef. Because while you are on LinkedIn trying to find a job for your idle hands, some people are seeking active employment for their genitalia. They DM you, not with job offers, but with the prospect of your private parts colluding in even more private places. Like I said, I don’t blame them. I only just wish Jeff Bezos would DM me with that offer everyone would mind the business that pays them.


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