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I find myself aligned with John,David and Jon. I am a dyed in the wool contractor. This time round being on the bench seems particularly harsher. There was a step change when COVID hit when contact numbers on job boards became annonymous, job boards phone numbers stopped working. At least with Linkedin there is a chance you will get a real person somewhere in the process who, whilst is a little shocked is usually fairly polite (like speaking to someone on the tube). For me the trick here is in the humanity and emotional intelligence. When you get some nob call you with an out of the blue request for references and if there is something likely to take you off the market soon you definately definately are being agent hacked (no humanty or integrity) and you should end the call with "......off!" John, I suspect doing things that keep your emotional integrity and humanity will save the day. You'll stand out big time, gain respect and get human insight from your transactions with people. It's people, afterall that underpin your industry. Finally the stand outs for me with you are entertainment, credibility, work ethic (you seem prolific), responding to comments. But black mark on the potty mouth :0) "This is the way" rgds RichFM

This has made me smile John Hawker I vote the YouTube channel ??

YT and Insta will surely operate similar Algorithms and attract a similar audience, so will the grass be greener? It needs to be a tool not a distraction. FWIW I think the silent majority prefer the human touch, and are savvy enough to filter the unnecessary.

I can’t imagine my LinkedIn feed without GTC. I enjoy the posts. I regularly update my groups and follows so my info feed is pretty good still. The only thing that isn’t so good is the number of adverts in a language I cannot read is increasing, surprisingly they aren’t all Dutch and French and I can’t stop them either. The main reason I took a break from insta and Facebook was the ads. I’m interested to know if an alternative social platform would work as well for recruitment. Maybe start your own - there’s a super AI to build an app for it, if you don’t know how ??

To be honest John I have a profile because recruiters can access it. However I can say with some experience of the market I have been approached and CV/contact harvested many times over the last almost 20 years that I don’t value linkedin as a platform anymore. I have literally never got a contract via a linkedin contact. It has always been word of mouth or who I know. It is just another social media platform. That aside there is some interesting content but an awful lot is people (like me) sharing their opinion like a drop in the ocean. Maybe I shoukd try harder to generate interest but really it would be a drop in a sea of noise. I’ll stick to doing delivery.