How LinkedIn Fundamentally Ruined Recruitment

Sorry, but I simply dont recognise the description of what it &quot;used to be like&quot;...<p>Prior to LinkedIn, agents were just as bad, in fact I now consider LinkedIn to be the source of high quality job leads.<p>For reference, I&#x27;m an contract embedded software engineer who uses and regularly gets both LinkedIn and regular agent traffic. I&#x27;ve also got 20 years experience of this job market.<p>This article is simply wrong.

X technology destroyed Y job. This is not new, impossible to stop and a waste of time to whine about.<p>Instead our time is better used developing our skillset to be able to stay in the market probably focusing on the Z job that was created with the same new technology.

<i>Whereas a headhunter would have known this and not approached a candidate with the opportunity..</i><p>In my experience that isn&#x27;t true.