Ask HN: How did you find your current job?

Flooded the market with over 100 job applications. Talked with dozens of people - from Tech Leads on another continent to clueless HR interns. Build up a really good perspective of the IT industry in the area. Dismissed many dodgy, disrespectful, weird companies, afterwards discovered that one has very bad Google reviews - customers call them scammers (my gut feeling was to refuse working on their take home assignment with a copyright clause). Met many respectful, caring people building legit businesses. The endeavour took 8 months (with one transitional acceptable job) and resulted with one legit job offer, in a niche but interesting industry, paid what I believe is the market rate. Realized that the job postings online basically evolved into Tinder - showing off, claiming things, lying, liking-dismissing for the most trivial reason, but few actual "transactions" happening. I don't want to go through this again.

First mention I see of hired. Used it while I was looking for jobs in London - definitely something I can recommend to get your foot in the door, especially for people who need visa sponsorship (at least that was my scenario)

Job posting on Stack Overflow, and a nice combination of closer to home, things I know, and things I love to work on. Had a nice two-hour chat with my now-boss and got the contract a day later.

First job out of uni - a company run training scheme, ran for nearly 3 years. Fairly low pay, that came with a job

At the end of that, after a couple of months on second line I was then asked by a dev department to take over from someone who was leaving.

Stayed there for 10 years and then had another head of department come up to Manchester and beg me to work for her, with a hefty pay rise and official home working.

I did apply for one job (internally)after a bad manager took over, which I got - it wa supporting a system that I'd written, but they couldn't pay enough. On the whole I'm terrible at interviews though (the training course was mostly test based), head hunting is the only way I've managed to progress.

For my day job, I took a bit of a windy road before finding it. First I decided to study in Korea the summer after my first year of university, and ended up never leaving. I studied Korean in a university language center for a year before transferring to a Korean university where I happened upon a summer internship at my eventual future employer (Engineering & Construction) on the exclusive student job/intern message board. After finishing that internship I received an offer that I accepted during my last semester before graduation. And that was that.

For my nights and weekends gig at Cent (https://beta.cent.co) I had to make it. I first focused on becoming a super-user back in October of 2017. After that, I submitted a few un-returned emails to the founders and wrote over 50 blog posts on the project before finally receiving a follow up email asking if I wanted to chat with the two person founding team. We had an amazing first call which led to a second one where I presented a plan of what I could do for the project in terms of their social media and communications strategies. After that the team asked for my ideal conditions before making an offer to join the team which I happily accepted.