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I aspire to this... And... How do you connect with employers, employees, look up companies, jobs, etc.?

• chairs 3y ago
  Every job that I've had I've found despite LinkedIn. My first graduate job was through word of mouth, the second I was headhunted, the third I found a recruiter that was worth his salt (who also, eventually, placed me at my fourth). Anything I've needed to know about a company there were ways outside of LinkedIn to find out, often as LinkedIn seemed like a HR washed exercise in grandiose. FWIW they're all but one are companies you would've heard of.
• lopis 3y ago
  What is the value you've had in return from being connected with your previous employers there? I'm connected with my closer colleagues through normal messaging apps.
  • satvikpendem 3y ago
    All my jobs are from LinkedIn, via recruiters for various companies. In fact, I use the number of messages I get per week as a proxy for how well or poorly the market is doing.
    • lopis 3y ago
      Most jobs I used to get were useless and ignores both my experience and interests. I never got a single interesting offer through there.
      • satvikpendem 3y ago
        What are your experience and interests? Just like SEO, or search engine optimization, there exists the concept of LinkedIn profile optimization. It includes things like having a good profile picture, making sure your profile has a clear niche (fullstack, backend, embedded, etc), having clear bullet points for each of your company experience sections, with numerical values if you have the data ("increased performance by X% using A, B, C"), setting your location to a well-known tech hub, and so on. Once I did all that, I've multiple gotten daily messages with very interesting offers. LinkedIn is a tool like any other, people simply have to learn how to use it.
• dontupvoteme 3y ago
  switch jobs less often.