[peterwwillis]

"Lesson 1: Recruiters rely exclusively upon LinkedIn". You might be thinking, “Really? This is obvious!”

Uh... No, I wasn't thinking that, since there's a ton of places for recruiters to find candidates and LinkedIn is only one of them. Is this some kind of viral marketing piece for LinkedIn or something?

I have gotten maybe 6 recruiting messages on LinkedIn in my life. I finally deleted my account after the password debacle, it was so useless. Like a business contact sheet for people I already had contacts for. On the other hand, Monster.com is where most of the recruiters seem to come at me from. I get on average 8 positions sent to me a week when i'm not looking for work. My google voice gets less recruiter spam, but I had to set a separate GV line up just to catch all the recruitemarketer calls.

[untog]

Then you must be in a tiny minority. I get an LinkedIn message every other day, pretty much. I closed my Monster account years ago after getting e-mails of insanely inaccurate matches in cities thousands of miles away.

[vtry]

Yeah, LinkedIn is awesome, it's the future of finding a job second only to your "connections".

[untog]

I actually disagree. All I've ever gotten from LinkedIn is recruiter spam.