Until I figured this out, I just left my LinkenIn account bare, with very few connections: - LinkedIn is where new jobs are announced. You may have noticed in

Until I figured this out, I just left my LinkenIn account bare, with very few connections: - LinkedIn is where new jobs are announced. You may have noticed in finance that there's a layer of recruitment consultants who have placed themselves between the banks/funds/fintechs and the potential employess. Quite often one of them will post a list of jobs they are working to place someone in. Quite often these job listings also include salaries and perks. And the big plus is that the experience is interactive. You simply ping them about the job and they chat with you. If it's not for you, not much time is wasted. - Recruitment guys are not picky about who they link with. I've turned my news feed into a continuous stream of jobs from various people. Now and again, I'll ping one of them and find out who the employer is and what exactly they want. It tells me what's going on in the industry. - If you pepper your LinkedIn CV with tech keywords, you will get a load of people contacting you with potential jobs. Most are not quite what you want, but how many jobs does one person need? I've gotten really good offers as well, just by sitting there and doing nothing. - People who want to sell you stuff are there too. I'm a hiring manager, so I get a lot of "hey I've got this guy, do you want him?" messages. Or "We are looking to partner with someone with xyz skills". You can quite quickly decide if there's any interest. So that's why it's worth having a LinkedIn profile. I wish they'd update their site though, it's getting pretty stale. They need a dark theme (fairly minor) and they need a way to group your contacts. That last one is especially important, as I often add people who don't know me but seem interesting.