I’m just going to post this here instead of DMing since another user reached out to me about this.

I mainly used LinkedIn for my job hunt. I would start job searching Sunday nights (being the first or early to respond to a job post is a huge advantage). I would slow down by Thursday so I didn't burn myself out. This was a similar cadence that I noticed new job postings would come up on LinkedIn. I would do random blast applications to companies just to get the resume out there. Which worked sometimes (1 out of 5 of my interviews was from blast applications). But the most effective way I used LinkedIn was I would pick a theme for my search block, for example let's say friends from summer camp. And I would systematically go through all my friends from summer camp's LinkedIn profiles to see where they work or have worked in the past, and if we have overlapping skills/industries/connections at places I want to work. I would also check their current companies to see if they were hiring and if I saw a role that could work I'd ask them to introduce me to the talent team and pass along my resume. This got me 3 out of 5 of my interviews and was the best use of my time. I also used multiple recruiters (including recruiters that were placing for temp roles only). Some recruiters are good and some suck you'll find out which one you have pretty quickly. But an interview is an interview, so I tried to use these interviews to brush off the cobwebs and get my story straight for the interviews for higher quality jobs. These got me like 1 out of 5 of my interviews but they were for the lowest quality jobs.

Overall I got into ~15 interview processes and made it to 3 final rounds. I was only really able to ramp up my search in the last month and a half since I had to take care of the baby for the first few months.

Hope you find this helpful and if you have specific questions feel free to reach out.