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Re: Ask HN - Where do you look for jobs?

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Post by kaisdavis »

saraid216 wrote: post #59
CWIZO wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm really intrigued by your approach. But doesn't this come across as nagging? I get the first email, and it's perfectly fine by me. I wouldn't mind receiving such an email. But the second one seems a bit spammy to me. Can you share what kind of feedback you got from those emails? What is your success ratio?

It's worth pointing out that Kai is a marketing specialist, and this is fairly normal (read: not bad) behavior when it comes to doing marketing. Keep in mind that he's spacing it out by a few days, which matters, and the follow-up actually demonstrates that he's (1) a human and (2) very interested.

Well put!

I'm approaching this from a marketing perspective and effective follow-ups can make the difference between a lead becoming dead or turning into a prospect.

It also proves that I'm human and not an automated mass email. (We all hate those).

Thanks Michael!

Re: Ask HN - Where do you look for jobs?

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Post by Homunculiheaded »

PaulHoule wrote: post #28

I haven't looked for a job actively for about five years or so and I hope that I don't need to ever again. Instead, I get contacted regularly by recruiters, founders and other hiring agents who, unfortunately, I mostly need to decline. (Otherwise I wouldn't be getting any actual work done!) Chasing listed jobs is a mug's game for two reasons: (i) you need to compete with a mountain of applications, and (ii) people of…

I've actually had pretty decent success with listed jobs. I tend to be very selective about what sounds interesting, and I believe I'm qualified for. I've found I have an over 50% interview rate for applications and between 15-25% offer rate.

Personally I find recruiters to be annoying and they don't really understand software so I've actually put a good bit of effort into keeping off recruiter radars.

Re: Ask HN - Where do you look for jobs?

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Post by hyramgraff »

eel wrote: post #9

I found my current position via LinkedIn. I also searched with StackOverflow Careers, the HN monthly hiring threads (which weren't useful due to a lack of posts for my area), and the job pages of local companies. I probably would have used more sources if it had taken any significant amount of time to find a job. My previous position was via a university career fair when I was still a student.

I also used StackOverflow Careers and found the position I just started.

I also tried the Who's Hiring HN thread, but I didn't find it very useful because of the small number of posts in my geographical area.

I tried LinkedIn, but found it very hard to filter down to a decent match for my skill set.

Re: Ask HN - Where do you look for jobs?

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Post by jaybill »

This is going to sound arrogant and troll-y, but I assure you it isn't.

I don't look. When I want a new job, I stop ignoring recruiters and wait to see what comes along. I've never waited more than a few days to have a pile of interesting opportunities. (I also end up with a much bigger pile of bullshit talent-trawls, but that's beside the point)

I wish I could say this was a function of my being awesome, but I think it has more to do with the job market in my area (PDX). There just aren't enough senior developers to go around.

Re: Ask HN - Where do you look for jobs?

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Post by whichdan »

sown wrote: post #57
negrit wrote: post #8

I don't want to sound like a douche but I've never looked for a job on a website. Each time i needed a job i got an offer from a company or from someone in my network. To grow your professional network I would recommend to attend to meetups, hackathons, user groups or even better to get involve in the organization. It worked pretty well for me. I met some incredible people and got some good jobs offer.

> To grow your professional network I would recommend to attend to meetups, hackathons, user groups or even better to get involve in the organization. It worked pretty well for me. Everyone of these meetups I've been to feels so...forced? I don't know but I've never really felt comfortable at these kinds of things. It's always so contrived?

I mostly just go to reddit meetups in Boston, so my perspective is slightly skewed, but I find the biggest problem is usually the venue. Very few places can seat more than 6 people or so together comfortably.
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