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Comment by MrVitaliy | Hacker News Reader

Best way to fix LinkedIn's recommend system is to stop using LinkedIn.

Does anybody actually "use" LinkedIn? Seems like most people just create an account, list their employment history and then just accept the occasional invite request. Does anybody actually go on LinkedIn and view their feed or write something?

Yeah 1,000,000 sales people & recruiters every day. How would you do professional research without it?

Scenario: I want to talk to a person with this title at this company. Cool this guy has the title, but I can't get to him. Look up the last person with the title, call and ask for that person and get transferred to the new person. There are 1000s of techniques to use LinkedIn.

LinkedIn > Facebook > Twitter - I pity those who don't see it.

I do. I use it to try to increase my visibility to potential employers in my area (none of whom are hiring at the moment, of course) and to fill the otherwise gaping void in my employment history with references to occasional freelance jobs.

With that, and a network of actual working professionals willing to vouch for me, I'm hoping that when the opportunity for real work arrives, employers might actually take that crucial second glance at me.

I use it regularly to see who I know at various companies to get introduced as well as to look up people I meet or I'm going to meet to see who we know in common.

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