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I went out of my way to connect with recruiters because it extends my network. Two benefits:

1) It makes me a 2nd level connection to lots of people I probably do care about. 2) It ups my visible number of connections and makes me look important. People see 500+ connections and assume I'm someone important.

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For this connections number, I now look at connections to skill recommendations ratio. Generally I see someone as genuinely connected if they have ~10% skill recommendation numbers for their top skill as they do connections. If someone have 500+ connections and 10 people have hit a skill recommendation you know they are spammy.

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