How LinkedIn Fundamentally Ruined Recruitment

Sorry, but I simply dont recognise the description of what it "used to be like"...

Prior to LinkedIn, agents were just as bad, in fact I now consider LinkedIn to be the source of high quality job leads.

For reference, I'm an contract embedded software engineer who uses and regularly gets both LinkedIn and regular agent traffic. I've also got 20 years experience of this job market.

This article is simply wrong.

X technology destroyed Y job. This is not new, impossible to stop and a waste of time to whine about.

Instead our time is better used developing our skillset to be able to stay in the market probably focusing on the Z job that was created with the same new technology.

Whereas a headhunter would have known this and not approached a candidate with the opportunity..

In my experience that isn't true.

You're right. I get 10+ javascript developer jobs in my inbox every week from headhunters, yet my CV says I'm a tech writer who can merely read javascript.