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

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Post by Bromskloss »

xando wrote: post #40
Bromskloss wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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.

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

Right, "developer jobs" wasn't an accurate description. There still seems to be a narrow focus, though. I mean, what about finance, medicine, chemistry, carpentry, etc? Is that outside the scope or is it coming?

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

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Post by s3nnyy »

I am running https://coderfit.com, a tech recruiting agency doing tech-video interviews, so I am obviously biased in my suggestion:

A possible way is to go through a recruiter. Recruiting agencies add value in two ways:

1) They prevent that you or the firm fuck up things. This happens more often than you think, read my draft: "Why software engineers don’t get jobs: Three horror stories": https://medium.com/@iwaninzurich/why-software-engineers-dont...

2) At every given point in time recruiting agencies know which companies in your city are hiring, which are firing, and which are good places to work.

I just recorded a short video about "how to identify a good tech recruiter with whom you want to work with" for the HN audience: https://youtu.be/z_CC9kHvoIw

The recording is a bit unstructured, so here a summary; A good recruiter will...

1) at least understand the tech a little bit

2) find out your needs (e.g., do you want to work in an agency or in a startup? Do you want to work in a big or small firm?)

3) prepare you to avoid pitfalls that are common with the hiring firm

4) repare you to avoid pitfalls that are prevalent with "geeks like you (e.g., female programmers often undersell themselves and open source contributors often don't know the engineering salares in the city.)

5) walk and handhold you to the end and ideally ping you after 3, 6, 12 months and ask how it is going.

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

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Post by el_benhameen »

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…

Would you mind elaborating on what you mean by a "soft close to try and get them to agree to a conversation"? Is this somewhat direct, along the lines of "I'd appreciate a few minutes of your time to talk about opportunities at your company", or something more general like "I'd love to take you to coffee to hear more about what you do"?

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

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Post by fecak »

el_benhameen wrote: post #44
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…

Would you mind elaborating on what you mean by a "soft close to try and get them to agree to a conversation"? Is this somewhat direct, along the lines of "I'd appreciate a few minutes of your time to talk about opportunities at your company", or something more general like "I'd love to take you to coffee to hear more about what you do"?

Sure. Soft close is a vague way of saying "don't go begging for a job". When you make this approach somewhat cold or perhaps slightly warm, your objective is to get a conversation started - that doesn't need to be a formal interview.

Of the examples you provide, I'd think the latter might be more effective (possibly including "or a quick call" to make it even less of a commitment).

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

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Post by justboxing »

If you are on a Work Visa like H1B or EU Blue Card, most of the job boards here don't work. That's why I created http://www.visaok.in to help techies find Work Visa sponsored Jobs.

Also researched a ton and created Visa Guides for over 25 different countries including Germany, Mexico, Singapore, United Arab Emirates etc.

You can find these Visa Guides here => http://www.visaok.in/work-permit/blog/

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

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Post by iridium »

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…

Something I read a while ago that stuck with me - ‘When you are looking for a new opportunity, you are really just looking for a person.’

This reframing totally changed how I look for new jobs, and what suprised me more was how willing people were to refer me, even if they had never met me.

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

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Post by AndrewUnmuted »

I find that unless you're an entry-level worker, your best means for finding work will be through the generation of leads.

Generating leads just means putting yourself out there and letting the opportunities come to you.

There are many, many people who are qualified to perform a job that is posted on a job board. But if you can enable a company to skip posting to a board at all, then you and the company in question both win.

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