[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.