[lockedinspace]

That correlation between connections and being good/bad it's utterly useless. Would you take more into consideration a person who has more connections than other even tho they have the same resume?

Saying this cause connections can be fakely increased so it's a dumb metric that shows pretty much nothing.

Would think it's more useful seeing how that person expresses themselves or which posts shares rather than how many people has accepted into their "network".

[b112]

so it's a dumb metric

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

[lockedinspace]

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.

[arjvik]

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"

[lockedinspace]

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.

[DowagerDave]

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

[burnte]

> That correlation between connections and being good/bad it's utterly useless. Would you take more into consideration a person who has more connections than other even tho they have the same resume?

Would I? No, but I also have never once looked at someone's LinkedIn when in the hiring process. I used to carefully curate who I connected with so that when looking at my connections, you could see it was a list of respected people in their fields, but I had barely over 100. Several recruiters told me point blank that doesn't matter at all. So I stopped bothering to care about my LI profile and connections, and suddenly had a LOT more activity with recruiters when I added more connections. Seemed quantity is truly valued over quality there.

> Saying this cause connections can be fakely increased so it's a dumb metric that shows pretty much nothing.

Yes, that was my point.

> Would think it's more useful seeing how that person expresses themselves or which posts shares rather than how many people has accepted into their "network".

You would think so, yes, but it's not how things work in the end.

[lockedinspace]

>You would think so, yes, but it's not how things work in the end.

Maybe a high number of connections causes a better first-impression, but if the candidate does not know how to write or articulate a word makes things much harder. Overall, seeing how a person expresses their ideas in their natural language gives you a better impression of how a person thinks/operates.

Which in the end matters, cause you are dealing with persons, not statistics.

For first instance recruiters, having a large number of people in your LI can get you into the first recruitment stage, but you won't pass if you don't know how to communicate, express and confront ideas, that's how it works.

[burnte]

I've never failed to secure an offer from an interview. So I'm not worried about what happens when I get there.