However, you can double your income by thinking differently about LI. If that doesn't speak to its value as a network, I might need to reassess what network value means.
How? I would love to double my income.
2. less LI, but become a thought leader
3. Network, write, promote. People are more likely do business with people they "know" so make sure they see your face on a regular basis.
4. Sales skills and business acumen, you will need this if you want to break out of the average
I did not have an expert write my profile and in fact I’ve hardly touched it in years.
Those numbers are highly tied to an independent event (your first salary, you could be a better negotiator today) and have been changed by inflation
2. This is not a LinkedIn skill. I speak at industry conferences regularly through relationships I've built entirely outside of LinkedIn.
3. Conference speaking does this for me.
4. This isn't even tangentially relayed to LinkedIn.
My first job out of college was from a bunch of cold applications. Since then, I've gotten all my roles by reaching out to people (outside of LinkedIn) to connect, and through my network. The skills you highlight as important are not exclusive to, or necessarily learnable on LinkedIn.
My most recent job search consisted entirely of friendly intros (most by colleagues at the hiring manager level) at a mix of startups and major tech companies. I have met these people through the normal course of business and life, and never through LinkedIn.
Maybe I'm special, because I've spent my career in tech consulting, so I got to network that way, but this is hardly a unique career path.
What happens when you have do code features that you won't want to do? No one puts their dogshit, get-it-done-before-the-weekend code on github.
And it's useless for telling me how well you'll do on a team, how you'll interact with other stakeholders, if you're sketchy and will run off with our IP (or just sell creds on the darknet), and if you'll be able to handle high powered office/project politics and their pressures. Linkedin may not be a perfect (or even good) signal for that, but it's a start. Long work histories but no contacts on Linkedin? Okay, not a dealbreaker, but may be worthy of an explanation.
The best way to use recruiters is to give them a few minutes regardless of the job, they have more, it's their business, and they will start pimping you out. Best job search hack ever!
I'm doing a few extra steps now
1. Tell them the company salaries are far too low, take a sample point back, hopefully a hack that raises everyone's salary
2. Getting intros to companies I want to do business with, not go work for. This has not been fruitful, but it is a recent strategy change