Comment by scarface_74

LinkedIn is not a “social media” site for me. I have my profile up and respond to recruiters and that’s about it. I’ve never posted anything to it.

I’ve had a profile since 2012 after leaving my third job. My fifth job in 2015 came from my reaching out to an internal recruiter who posted a job opening. My 8th and 10th job came from my responding to recruiters who messaged me in 2020 and last year and my 9th job came from targeted outreach to a couple of companies where they were looking for my combination of skills.

On the other hand, when I was looking for my last two jobs both last year and the year before, LI is horrible for applying for jobs blindly unless you have a niche skillset. Every application gets literally hundreds of applications within the first few hours after posting and it’s impossible to stand out. It still works pretty well for responding to inbound messages.

It might have been better before 2020 and even now if I were looking for an in office or hybrid role.