Sadly, there aren't any other reasonable options with regards to job searches and candidate advertising than LinkedIn.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39562986
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39562984
In my last search I used Hacker News for about 90% of my applications. It worked a lot better because I usually directly interacted with hiring managers.
In contrast, I put my resume on a job board a few years ago, and I still get a lot of recruiter spam to that email.
Recruiter spam: The recruiter has never read my resume and there's no way I'd be interested or qualified for the job. I suspect the recruiter is just using some kind of automated AI / screening tool.
I doubt it. If a human hadn't read your profile, how could they possibly be so impressed by your background?
By volume? Yeh, doesn't even make the top 10. But why (opposite of) quality? Occasionally, my email will have something interesting within it, sometimes my phone rings and it's not trying to get me to renew the warranty on my car, and even Facebook will sometimes have a kernel of corn in what is otherwise a turd of a feed. My skin starts crawling like there are grifters slithering up behind me though, when it's Linkedin.
Not disputing the fact, that linkedin is full of bullshit of course.
Oh, you won’t waste a bunch of time “cultivating your network” or whatever? You won’t advertise to phishers how our company is laid out? You aren’t addicted to yet another social network? All pros.
However, it was a bit of a battle to convince the other stakeholders in the company that it should be viewed positively instead of negatively. And this is at a security company, where we have a whole open-source intelligence department!
I think you and I are in the vast, vast minority.