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Ask HN: What is the most valuable LinkedIn opportunity you've capitalized on?
- godot 9y agoBack in 2008 when LinkedIn was still relatively smaller, there were already recruiters who ping people on it regularly. I would receive one a month or every couple weeks. I began a job search in mid 2008, and responded to the first recruiter that messaged me that week, and ended up getting hired at that company. I worked there for the next 6 years and it was my most important and influential job in my career, in terms of everything including career growth and financial prospects. I went through another job search earlier this year. It didn't seem nearly as helpful even though LinkedIn is exponentially larger now. I've noticed anecdotally for myself for other sites and apps too, that was really useful/helpful to me when it was smaller, and when it got larger, it became less effective.
- PaulHoule 9y agoI can tell a similar story. I think the quality of LinkedIn has gone down, I have not found it effective for B2B sales but once I started looking at other channels, I started getting results right away.