My “network” includes external recruiters. I’ve met them for lunch, in their office etc. Mostly boutique shops. I only dealt with local recruiters in my form

My “network” includes external recruiters. I’ve met them for lunch, in their office etc. Mostly boutique shops. I only dealt with local recruiters in my former city (Atlanta) before remote work got to be big. I haven’t looked for a job post Covid. Hopefully, I will never have to look for a job again. When I leave my current job - hopefully by choice - I will be semi-retired and doing consulting gigs (not staff augmentation). Ironically, I work for the very company that this article is about. But, I work in the consulting department at AWS. There is a direct easy to measure metric of how much my work contributes to the bottom line compared to my compensation - I’m a billable consultant.