for jobs - indeed is better or other small avenues in their heyday such as HN who is hiring (all my jobs have come through hn)

other avenues - local slack channels.

linkedIn - good for initial connection with strangers you don't know and might find valuable

linkedIn - good for keeping tabs on companies or new startups

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mrweasel 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It probably depend on where you live and who you are. LinkedIn is my backup in case of a layoff. It's the site where I can reach everyone who worked with me or have made offers in the past.

If you do what I do, live in my general area and know the right people (which I do), LinkedIn will get you an interview or three lined up in a day or two. None of these people are on Indeed, HackerNews or even Slack.

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kjkjadksj 5 hours ago | parent [-]

I think before linkedin people were doing this with email and phone. Literally cold calling your old coworkers. Not sure linkedin really created anything that didn’t exist previously especially if you live in some major hub of industry as you indicate.

	▲	mrweasel 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It did make it easier though. I don't have to keep a list of potentially outdated phone numbers and email adresses. LinkedIn makes it much simpler to broadcast your availability. Most of LinkedIn is just garbage though, especially if you somehow connected with social-media people or marketing people. Marketing people on LinkedIn are weird, they can't form coherent sentences and they can't even sell themselves. You could strip down LinkedIn down to your resume, availability status and your email address and it would be fine.

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sp1982 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

try https://corvi.careers I been building it purely as job search platform, has good coverage of startups and public companies but I’d still recommend to use LI for network tho

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catcowcostume 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

??? Who outside of startups (in a professional environment) even use Slack?