It pains me to aay it but, during a recent redundancy and lengthy job search, subscribing to Linkedin Premium was a big help.

Unfortunately, Linkedin is where the recruiters and many of the hiring businesses are - and a subscription did seem make me more visible. I was fortunate enough to be able to afford it, and subscribed for three months before reverting to the free tier when I found a role. There was a two week free trial.

May be useful for those who, like me, don't have much of a personal "network".

(Developer, UK, no connection to Linkedin except as a user)