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Have you tried employer/employee match making sites hired.com? Or try using a recruiter. That should be better than cold applying from company websites.

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Hired was awful for me with similar xp. There were very few companies and all we’re looking for bottom of the market rates

Is Hired the one that’s supposed to have the employers reach out to you. Even prior to the market crash, I never got any lead off of hired (though I would get a ton from other sources) despite them sending me constant email spam about how “my skills were in demand”

Yeah, if not for the recommendation here I'd have overlooked it altogether. It seems like a generic job spam site...

I got halfway through hired.com and then deleted my account. It wanted waaaaaaay too much information and wouldn't even show me which employers were available. No thanks. Seems like one of those sketchy automated job sites, except it's highly asymmetric.

I've gotten all my jobs through applying directly on the company website in the past. That way I get to see a bit about what they do, what their culture's like, etc.

I'd be open to using a recruiter though. How does that work?

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