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Ask HN: Where do you search for jobs?

6 pointsrrmdp14 comments

When do you search for a job you do it in only one job boards or multiple?

Would be useful to have a list of job boards and that you could filter them based on your skills?

I look at multiple (e.g. indeed.com), and also hit up former coworkers, and most of all every month HN has "Who's Hiring" and related posts (you can find June's here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31582796 ).

Kind of unrelated, but do you know where I can find internship positions? Ask HN usually exclusively lists full-time jobs

Check this out https://jobboardsearch.com/internships-positions

So you got to the most known job boards, you don't bother to search new ones at all?

The newer it is, it seems, the less likely it is to have something, unless it's the same job that every other board knows about.

Yeah, there are a lot of job board aggregators

HN is the best source I've seen so far. High quality, well paid jobs most of the time.

LinkedIn gives good quantity and moderate quality but never landed any real interviews there so far.

So you only use a couple of sources, you never google for other job boards at all?

Most job boards are a waste of time. They're mostly fishing for skilled applicants at cheap rates. You get a much worse deal than if you contact the company first.

I've actually had one company contact me through HN for a role that I applied to on a job board. They rejected me via the job board, but continued the interview via the contact.

A reverse job board, which lists people for hire (much like HN does) would be more useful.

"fishing for skilled applicants at cheap rates" I loved this!!!

Thanks for your reply muzani :)

It might help to specify your profession.

As a developer, I don't search for jobs. Jobs search for me. Not every profession has the same dynamic.

Where do you advertise yourself so jobs search for you?

Just having an up-to-date profile on LinkedIn seems enough. Even with all the 'open to work' settings turned off, there's no end to the recruiters reaching out with opportunities. When I last enabled those options, I was up to 50 new conversations before the end of the week.

This is amazing!

Do you have a good GitHub profile to showcase?

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