Recruiters on portals like LI are always looking for ways to expand their network, because they know that they can only see the profiles of those who are in their network. Building up a quantity of contacts is thus very legitimate and necessary on LI. Here is a tip to do that in minutes:

1. Open a second LI account using a new Gmail or Yahoo mail email address
2. Go to the Open Networkers Yahoo group, the database there has an 'Invite me' list where several hundreds of Open Networkers have left their address and have stated that they would like to be invited to your network.
You can even export the whole list at once and upload it to your quantity LI network. If you want to know how to proceed towards a quality network from there on, please visit my website for information.

Next day you'll have several hundreds of new contacts in your first line connections on LI..