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Ask HN: What job boards are good these days?

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I randomly opened LinkedIn, which has, for over a decade, been my go-to for job listings. Today, something was off. Search didn't work. The icons were overlapping with the search box. Clearly a product in decline, so what job sites are up and coming? (Besides the "Who's Hiring" thread, of course! :-]

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To be honest job boards have become a joke. Like they post jobs there you apply and either you don't hear at all or a rejection mail and this happens everywhere on each board.

the question isn't how to find a job opening, but rather how to effectively apply for one (assuming you have the relevant knowledge and experience).

I like https://hiring.cafe (no affiliation) because a builder here made it. ymmv.

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Thanks for the recommendation, hiring.cafe seems pretty good on first look and just made an account. I like how their mission is to "kill" indeed and linkedin. Had to revisit this thread after seeing it yesterday to refresh my memory after initially going to "coffeejobs.com" which is... not the correct destination.

YC's jobs page is pretty good indicator of understanding who is not really hiring but advertising.

Working with good recruiters is my best advice now. They will actually talk to hiring managers and good corps will pay money for good people.

If you recieve any recruiter inbound, I would take their meeting and then let them know your goal of getting placed at whatever type of role youre looking for.

LinkedIn is slowly becoming a job board for people who want to tell you they’re hiring, not actually hire anyone.

Try https://searchforjobs.app/

> The icons were overlapping with the search box. Clearly a product in decline

Isn't that an exaggeration? Linkedin search works fine for me. I dislike all the other social media crap of linkedin, but I have found all my jobs in the last 16 years via linkedin.

LinkedIn is purposely ruining their job search anyway. They're replacing the decent filter based search (with some of the better filtering options I've seen on job boards) with some fuzzy "AI" search feature. Garbage.

Idk if it's the boards or the market. Been applying for 6 months. 4 call backs only 2 relevant, no offers. Day rates are nominally less than I was earning 10 years ago, which are about 1/3 worse due to inflation.

So shit all round tbh. Senior dev/SRE/AWS cloud engineer w/ 15 years experience. Bottom seems to have fallen out the market.

A coding agent, browser window, and a VPN.

Among all the hiring scams, enshittified portals and overwhelmed HRs, I don't trust sites anymore. I might as well collect all the info myself and process it based on my needs.

I set up a funnel with an agent searching, adding to a SQLite for dedup and company limits enforcement, doing an ast pass on a resume, and then submitting.

It works upsettingly well

Would be really interested to hear more about your workflow or a gist if you care to share.

It's look like Glassdoor have the best opportunities for me

It depends on your goal. Here is my current experience:

* If you want the most fresh job posts in your inbox, fully AI generated, use indeed.com. You should set reasonable expectations that a billion other people are getting those same job alerts and almost every application that goes through that site is also AI filtered.

* If you want the most recruiters to actually call you then go with dice.com. If I were a junior developer in a struggling market with a killer resume dice.com is gold. As a super old JavaScript guy that no longer wants to play well with insecure children or struggle with indecisive sociopathic pretenders most of these jobs feel stale.

* I have not tried Monster.com in a while but they have worked for me in the past.

My recent experience with recruiters contacting me:

* I had 6 different recruiters contact me over nearly 10 weeks about the same super urgent opening. These recruiters were each doing everything correct to find excellent people, the other candidates as well, but the client did not really seem to want this job filled.

* Most recruiters find the city I live in and pull out 1 zip code assigned to that city and then determine I am about 12 miles away from all their job openings. My city has 55 zip codes and most of these jobs are 55 miles from my house with mandatory onsite through the worst traffic in the country.

* Everybody wants to rewrite my resume, sometimes multiple times. I keep learning the hard way its just as strategic to not include certain information and to become less desirable for many jobs you would rather not do. Recruiters want to place you in any job to collect their commission, which is completely at conflict with making the most desirable career choice.

My last go-round (3.5 years ago), I found Monster to be not as good as it used to be, at least for what I do (embedded systems).

Unfortunately, I don't remember what ultimately led to my job. I think it was either Indeed, or Robert Half (they're headhunters, but they did a good job).

Head hunters are great if you're at the right place at the right time. But applying to them is a more difficult ROI than passively getting lucky.

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