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

https://whoishiring.io which is basically an agregator.

I also like the concept around https://www.honeypot.io (I think it's only available in Berlin though). Once you sign up and add your CV, you get a list of quite detailed offers almost every day, including company name (wow, I know, crazy) and salary range. You can accept or reject them through the UI, by just clicking a button. No endless chain of messages to figure out what company or position you're actually applying for, no horrid misspelling of your name, no waiting for the recruiter to contact the company and check if they're actually interested in your skill set - your CV is presented to the company beforehand so you've already passed their vetting. The one time I tried, I didn't find a job through Honeypot, but I definitely appreciated the experience.

Yes. I've spent a lot of time looking at job boards and here are my favorite ones.

# Design

Authentic Jobs - https://authenticjobs.com/

Dribbble - https://dribbble.com/jobs

# Nonprofit

GIIN - https://jobs.thegiin.org/

Idealist - https://www.idealist.org/

Next Billion - https://nextbillion.net/jobs/

# Remote

NODESK - https://nodesk.co/remote-jobs/

RemoteOK - https://remoteok.io/

WeWorkRemotely - https://weworkremotely.com/

# Startups/Tech

AngelList - https://angel.co/jobs

Hacker News - https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=whoishiring

WorkinTech.io - https://workintech.io/

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 open jobs is similar to using any other site, but it's greatest value is as a research tool.

Say you're a Python programmer in a suburb somewhere and you're looking for a new gig. If you use LinkedIn to search "Python" and set a geographic preference, your results will likely be other Python programmers in the area. Where do they work? Where did they used to work? Sometimes LinkedIn will offer other profiles in the sidebar ("people also viewed") - click those and see where they worked. Now you've got a list of companies that have employed Python devs, so you can do a bit more research to see if they are the type of place you might want to work - and pay no attention to whether or not they have any jobs listed on their site.

Once you found some companies that interest you, use LinkedIn to figure out the best person to reach out to. Might be their CTO if it's a small shop, could be an internal recruiter or hiring manager for a larger firm. Make the approach, tell them why you're interested in the company, and make a soft close to try and get them to agree to a conversation.

I think some commonly overlooked spots are:

https://www.reddit.com/r/forhire/

also

https://twitter.com/search?q=looking%20for%20a%20freelance%2...