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so it's a dumb metric

I have to ask, have you interacted with many recruiters?

Fortunately quite many, maybe cause my sector is highly demanded, but having 1k,2k or whatever number of connections is not a metric for a lookable candidate. Years of experience, your github projects, open-source contribs are valuable metrics IMHO.

Maybe recruiters after all also look a the connection number, could be, but its like saying a photographer is better than other cause he just simply posts more pictures.

I think you're reading in too much to the above comment... from what I can tell they're just trying to say "it's a dumb metric because recruiters are dumb"

Maybe I am overlapping my personal experience with others, but since I have a small number of connections, my job requests from recruiters in LI are normally optimal, quite elaborate and high-quality.

All those recruiters have 1000's of connections! </s>

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