LinkedIn referrals mean jack shit.

As I said:

> anything past where you've worked on LinkedIn is a waste of time

Because everything on LinkedIn literally exists to be farmed. And why wouldn't it? LinkedIn's customers are recruiters. Users are the currency.

OP would be better served by actually networking with their peers. Not in app-mediated (and -monetized) ways, but in normal social human ways.

Sometimes it's like people forgot how to say "Hey, want to grab a coffee and catch up? What's been going on with you?"