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Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite place to find work?

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Post by umbrae »

Bromskloss wrote: post #17
umbrae wrote: post #9

I am certainly biased, but I built a job platform because I felt all the existing job boards were lacking, called Limbo. https://www.limbo.io The long and short of the problem is that great folks are often employed and finding your next ideal role is too time consuming and emotionally taxing, and that great folks with diverse backgrounds are unfairly discriminated against at resume review time. Limbo attempts to solv…

For someone who is considering posting there, it might be of interest to get an idea about the likely payoff: - How many "reveals" do an average profile get? How many profiles get no reveals? - What kind of businesses typically use your service, and what countries are they from?

Good questions.

- In the past month and a half or so since we’ve launched, about 20% of published profiles have had a reveal request. That varies heavily based on profile quality, some have gotten 4 in a row.

That said, even though it’ll be pretty low volume it should be very high signal. Our accept rate is around 70% right now. This is primarily because people have to pay outright to contact you (excepting the first free one), so only folks with pretty good matches should be reaching out.

- Tech only right now and also heavily biased towards US, probably 95% US. Startups and Agencies have been the primary target and market. You’re less likely to find a Facebook on Limbo and more likely to find a small team that is a pretty precise match for you. There are a couple larger companies on there though, like Mozilla.

Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite place to find work?

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Post by tezzer »

toomuchtodo wrote: post #30
henrik_w wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I know LinkedIn isn't particularly popular here at HN, but I think the job adds I get shown there are quite good. Even if I am not looking for work I get a sense of what companies there are, and what kind of positions they are looking to fill.

I’m in my current role because a recruiter found me on LinkedIn. I would’ve never gone looking for the particular role. Highly recommend LinkedIn regardless of what you might think of the platform.

Same story here. I never would have known about my company if their internal recruiter hadn't reached out to me on LinkedIn. I blew him off the first time he reached out, saying 'not now, check back next year' and when he called a year later I was ready for a move.

Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite place to find work?

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Post by southphillyman »

No. Been a couple years but I usually just toss my resume on Dice, wait for a flood of calls/emails and filter through the trash. I guess I have a "network" because they certainly contact me when in need but personally I don't feel comfortable reaching out to people I haven't talked to in a couple of years just for leads.

Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite place to find work?

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Post by anitil »

IpV8 wrote: post #28

My secret strategy is to find out what company is responsible for distributing the tech grants from the state. There is almost always some list of all of the companies that got money from the state and how much. Find interesting companies with a fresh budget to build something in your domain and hit their CTO/whoever with a few line email and a resume. You may get on their radar before they even finished writing thei…

Smart. I know what I'll be doing the rest of the day

Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite place to find work?

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Post by SOLAR_FIELDS »

henrik_w wrote: post #23
fecak wrote: post #16

The problem with job boards is that unless they are rather unknown, everyone is using them. Applying through boards is essentially like getting into the back of a line and hoping you get noticed. When I coach job seekers on finding new work, I typically encourage them to be careful not to spend too much time on the boards, and instead rely on their networks/meetups or personal research. Using LinkedIn to search for o…

I know LinkedIn isn't particularly popular here at HN, but I think the job adds I get shown there are quite good. Even if I am not looking for work I get a sense of what companies there are, and what kind of positions they are looking to fill.

I know that hiring managers for high paying and high skill level niche markets also use Linkedin - in my line of work the skills are niche enough that we will look for people with certain backgrounds and initiate the conversation with them to see if they are possibly interested. It's one of the reasons that the only social network I am on currently is Linkedin, it certainly is a window for opportunities. In fact, I'm in my current position which I am quite happy with only because a recruiter reached out to me on Linkedin.

Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite place to find work?

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Post by SOLAR_FIELDS »

mitchellst wrote: post #5

Not to fanboy, but the "Who is Hiring" thread posted here on hacker news on the first of each month. In my experience, the rate and speed of responses from that thread is dramatically higher than anywhere else. Obviously it's not the UX that makes it shine, but when you're looking for work, you care about the results. I recommend that thread to anyone who mentions looking for a tech job.

I like that thread because you can load the entire thing and look for keywords relevant to your skillset - comes quite in handy when you work in a more niche market. I am not currently interested in new work but I always like to see what is out there to keep a finger on the market movements to see what is gaining popularity.

Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite place to find work?

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Post by fecak »

henrik_w wrote: post #23
fecak wrote: post #16

The problem with job boards is that unless they are rather unknown, everyone is using them. Applying through boards is essentially like getting into the back of a line and hoping you get noticed. When I coach job seekers on finding new work, I typically encourage them to be careful not to spend too much time on the boards, and instead rely on their networks/meetups or personal research. Using LinkedIn to search for o…

I know LinkedIn isn't particularly popular here at HN, but I think the job adds I get shown there are quite good. Even if I am not looking for work I get a sense of what companies there are, and what kind of positions they are looking to fill.

Your mileage will vary on LinkedIn depending on the time you put into populating your profile.

I have written hundreds of profiles for clients this year - some clients are more concerned with branding (what does someone feel when they are directed to the profile or find it on their own) while others are much more concerned with just being discovered by recruiters, hiring managers, peers, etc. The approach is quite different, not unlike SEO techniques.

If you're getting good ads, chances are you put some time into your profile and added skills that help their recommendation algorithm.

Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite place to find work?

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Post by xando »

Bromskloss wrote: post #22
bkovacev wrote: post #6

As chrisked mentioned - definitely my previous clients and friends. The best long-term contracts I received was through a former colleague, classmate or a friend. Recently, linkedin provided a steady source of leads (not talking about recruiters) via niche groups, 2nd/3rd connections etc. One great site is https://whoishiring.io - an amazing job aggregator that parses (in my opinion) the best sites for work. This eli…

> One great site is https://whoishiring.io - an amazing job aggregator that parses (in my opinion) the best sites for work. It seems to be just for developer jobs, or a I doing something wrong? Will they go into other fields as well, or is there someone else who is already doing that?

You can filter using the category filter. Link bellow is for design jobs.

https://whoishiring.io/search/39.4871/-110.8740/3?category=d...

Disclaimer: I wrote whoishiring.io, and I'm not doing too good job to present that other categories ar available (the filter is missing on the index page). But yes my main focus in the beginning were dev jobs.

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