Recent uptick. LinkedIn will also "flag" recommendations from being tit-for-tat, meaning, the "savvy" now wait a week or several days before "returning the favo

Recent uptick. LinkedIn will also "flag" recommendations from being tit-for-tat, meaning, the "savvy" now wait a week or several days before "returning the favor." Ergo, recommendation quality does not mean as much as pre-IPO (IMO). It is also saturated as of late by more spammy recruiters (I'm a recruiter..value out of LinkedIn recruiting has dropped dramatically since IPO due to the flood). LinkedIn, however, is the "disruptive" potential company in the third-party recruiting space. It will be interesting to see if they do so :) They made a bit dent in many contingent recruiters introducing pay-for-job posting (versus posting jobs in groups, which is SPAM heavy). LinkedIn answers and groups, however, has gone the way of mostly spam or, those trying to establish "LinkedIn" expert status' (statusi? :D). I believe many thought that owning a large group would somehow lead to monetization. Currently, groups are only moderated by the group leaders, with LinkedIn more hands-off in the approach, killing nice networking potentials. As a caveat, day job = LinkedIn recruiting on a 10% basis, whereas off work, I like to actually interact with the groups, Answers (not lately due to poor quality) and connect with interesting people unrelated to technical recruiting.