Ask HN: What’s your goto website for finding work? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What’s your goto website for finding work?

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Post by the_only_law » Wed, Oct 27, 2021, 3:03 PM UTC

aynyc wrote: post #3

LinkedIn for me. Set your setting to open for jobs.

LinkedIn would be fine if the type of jobs I wanted reach out to me, but that doesn't happen.

Their job board would even be decent if the fact that nearly half the results are "sponsored" and unrelated to what I searched for. That and the fact that companies with remote roles have decided to spam post the exact same remote job, except changing the location to every single metro in the country, worsening the signal to noise ration even more.

Re: Ask HN: What’s your goto website for finding work?

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Post by muzani » Wed, Oct 27, 2021, 11:20 PM UTC

HN is the best so far. Respectful responses, smart people. Most have been very chill and rational too.

LinkedIn is second. The quantity is there, but you have to filter for quality.

Recruiters for more efficient acquisition, but the end conversion rate is lower. You spend less time filtering companies and writing cover letters, but people generally don't like to pay recruiter fees given the option.

Facebook has the highest success rate, though. I'd say I got about 90% of work through there, which included my first job, a few jobs as a manager, and current job at a unicorn.

Job sites are generally harsh and unforgiving, where people will reject you literally for a typo on your resume or because they didn't like the formatting.

Re: Ask HN: What’s your goto website for finding work?

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Post by gauchojs » Thu, Oct 28, 2021, 9:33 AM UTC

todoist.com (sry, sry)

Re: Ask HN: What’s your goto website for finding work?

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Post by yeahman » Thu, Oct 28, 2021, 9:39 AM UTC

If you plan to work in Russia or other post soviet countries the nothing beats hh.ru