@simonroses Linkedin provides minimal, but some value…
There are a couple of people I chat with via LinkedIn that for whatever other reason I have not migrated chatting with them over to any other service.
I get some decent job opportunity messages from recruiters there from time to time. Don’t think I’ve ever actually taken/gotten a job which originated from LinkedIn though…
Though most of my (and any one elses) LinkedIn feed is cringey nonsense I do surprisingly find some interesting blog posts from time to time.
I don’t have enough analytics on my site to give any useful numbers, but I know LinkedIn drives some amount of traffic to my site, and thus to my other properties across the web 🤷♂️.
It is, in the end, where most jobs/hiring managers will want to turn when they want to look at your “professional profile”, even if you have a blog or w/e else, those will almost always be supplemental to 1. your resume and 2. your LinkedIn profile. So having a presence on Linkedin is important for that reason I suppose. I have taken a somewhat principled stance on how I present myself on LI. Rather than reduce myself to my timeline of jobs, I’ve decided to instead emphasize my skills, my portfolio (blog), my education, my credentials, and the orgs I am a part of.
For more ramblings on why I don’t like traditional resumes/LI profiles, read on…
@sudorandom: Am I doing LinkedIn wrong? Should I want as many connections as possible?
@sudorandom I guess this just depends how you use LinkedIn. See for me, LinkedIn has very limited value. The way for me to maximize this value is really to just connect with anyone who wants to connect with me. This means more people potentially funneled to my site (and other properties), more network connections from folks in the field who may have stumbled across something I wrote and want to connect further, and three potential professional opportunities (of which there have definitely been some). I don’t spend a lot of time on LinkedIn. The feed is atrocious, the platform (like so many others) is just becoming an AI training farm and there’s never felt like any real ownership of the content I could put there or even over my profile. If you look at my profile even, you can see that I’ve gone somewhat out of the way to make it very non-traditional in the LinkedIn sense. If you however use LinkedIn a lot and rely on having a higher fidelity main feed or want to avoid spam as much as possible you may be better served by being pickier with your connections. YMMV.