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Comment by thrownaway954 | Hacker News Reader

just wanted to say that rather than updating resumes, update your linkedin profile. most opportunities i have gotten has been through linkedin. also, once you have a linkedin profile completed, you can import it into indeed and import your indeed profile into ziprecruiter.

also, there are many services out there that will export your linkedin profile as a resume.

good luck everyone, i might be joining you guys soon enough :P

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Seconded. LinkedIn is a pretty good ressource if you invest some time developing your connections. A lot of SW recruiters but also small businesses for people looking for both employment and contracts (I found both through it).

Anybody interested, feel free to add me, my LI is in my profile.

If you don't mind me asking, how many more opportunities came from Linkedin? Last time I was looking, I was getting about 2 new interviews per week from sending my resume through Indeed and about 1 interview per month from Linkedin.

LinkedIn really depends on your resume/skills and geographical area.

In the Bay area, I passively get at least two recruiter reach outs per week and when I was set to actively looking, it was more like several per day. Some of them are highly targeted. For example, I've had a company reach out recently based on previous distributed column store experience.

Triplebyte is also pretty good, although it's heavily skewed towards startups.

Both of those options are pretty high return on little investment (a few hours).

Thank you for responding and providing as much information as you did. That's pretty impressive; if I have to start looking again, I'll have to focus more on the LinkedIn side of things than I previously did.

Thanks so much! This is fantastic advice.

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