I honestly don't remember the last time I got a job without the help of a recruiter or social network. My current job found me - the recruiter was looking for

I honestly don't remember the last time I got a job without the help of a recruiter or social network. My current job found me - the recruiter was looking for someone local with Rackspace cloud server experience and found me via LinkedIn. They made a good offer, so I took it. My prior job, a recruiter on LinkedIn saw I was looking for a job (was unemployed), friended me went from there. LinkedIn has it's uses - if your looking, pay for one of the premium accounts, follow people, talk to recruiters. If you use LinkedIn as it was designed to be used (to build connections), it shouldn't take long. That said, a friend of mine, his current company found him on Twitter so... never hurts to diversify.