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Comment by marsrover | Hacker News Reader

Please enlighten me on the worth of LinkedIn because I have yet to find it. It’s basically become Facebook For Old People where said old people gripe about Facebook and post absolutely stupid comments on Facebook-like videos.

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If you keep your LI profile up to date and have in demand skills, people will be knocking down your door to give you money. I've found all my best jobs from LI contacts tbh.

It was a wasteland for a while but in my opinion has rebounded.

I find it the same too. Professional and about new and fresh connections. Positive input.

As an anecdote/data point: I largely forgot about LinkedIn, and never really heard much from them. One day I installed the app and decided to see what all my old contacts were up to, just browsing around. Immediately after, my page views went up and I was sent a few messages from recruiters. I'm wondering if they don't 'reward' more active users in recruitment searches...

When you have a meeting with someone you can see where they do/used to work and perhaps find people in common. It's also apparently a good way to find employees though I'm not sure how our recruiters manage to use it in that way.

Otherwise...I don't get linkedin either. My gf used to work there and raved about it a lot but I still couldn't figure it out.

Don't use it as a social network, only talk to recruiters.

You can use it to find people who work at a company you want to work for, and get a leg up in the hiring process on people who apply directly.

I'm approaching this from a monetary/value perspective. Linkedin has helped me professionally, to make fresh and professional connections, whereas FB has always been about stale/past connections. You may very well be right about the old foggies part, but professionally it is great.

LinkedIn is one of two main sources of job offers for me (the other one being my personal connections).

You can do things like that on LinkedIn? I've only ever gone to the page to see job listings and update my profile for potential recruiters.

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