It might be great if your goal is to get &quot;recruiters to notice you&quot; which might be OK if you don&#x27;t already have a job (it&#x27;s better than nothing). But in my experience, recruiter attention is insufficient if your goal is getting a _better_ job. I tried the LinkedIn thing for a while (and still maintain an account there, because who knows?), but it basically resulted in a lot of recruiter contacts and plenty of interviews, but apparently not a lot of companies that were actually serious about hiring. They seem to mostly be the dog jobs too, the crap &quot;opportunities&quot; that employers couldn&#x27;t immediately fill so they have to use recruiters. And in this job market, if you can&#x27;t immediately fill a position, you ought to take a good look at what&#x27;s wrong with that position.<p>You&#x27;ll also have a hard time using it to change job function or for a career upgrade. If your profile says &quot;Senior Software Engineer&quot; you&#x27;ll just get a bunch of recruiters spamming you to be &quot;Senior Software Engineer&quot; at some other company. They&#x27;ll never reach out to you and say, &quot;hey how would you like to try being tech lead, or managing a team of engineers?&quot; The site&#x27;s obviously automated &quot;suggested jobs&quot; are also carbon copies of whatever it is you&#x27;re already doing, too.<p>Needless to say, I don&#x27;t bother much with LinkedIn anymore.