Before you use the ‘Open to Work’ badge on LinkedIn, read this
April 28, 2024
After social media manager Jensen Rubinstein was let go from her job in January, she put the green “Open to Work” banner up under her LinkedIn profile photo. Along with a short post about the reason for her job loss, the banner almost immediately caught the eye of a director at a small publication looking to fill a contract position—a role she landed and still serves in today.
It also snagged her a first-round interview at another company she was pleasantly surprised to be considered for. “It wouldn’t have been on my radar, and it’s not really in an industry that I would’ve been super interested in working in, but they contacted me,” says Rubenstein (who, full disclosure, was a coworker at a previous job).