I've been working in the same place for 11 years now! I know it's startling but it's a pretty sweet place and I've moved myself up through the ranks so-to-speak. I have perused a few jobs on Stackoverflow careers a few times but never applied. They tend to have pretty decent places with interesting work.
Ask HN - Where do you look for jobs?
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Re: Ask HN - Where do you look for jobs?
#32Any tips for new grads? Currently in my last semester of undergrad.
Re: Ask HN - Where do you look for jobs?
#33I 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…
Can you expand on what you do for adding content to linked in every day? And how does that help?
Re: Ask HN - Where do you look for jobs?
#34I don't look for jobs that have been posted — my feeling is that jobs that make it to Reddit / GitHub / Craigslist / Monthly Hiring Threads, are all jobs that have been picked over by people working at (or close with) the company. I make a list of the type of company I want to work with (I want to be paid $X, they should use this technology, I want to solve this problem or work on this project) and then I backtrace i…
Can you be more specific about this part:
"Then, I contact those companies. I set up meetings when I can"
How do you contact them, how do you pitch the idea of meeting with you?
Re: Ask HN - Where do you look for jobs?
#35I 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…
Can you expand on what you do for adding content to linked in every day? And how does that help?
I'd also like to know why, mainly because I decided to finish off my LinkedIn profile during a lazy afternoon and for the past couple of days I've had recruiters from Google, Microsoft and loads of other companies sniffing around my profile and on my website/github profile.
Perhaps it was coincidence, or perhaps putting the right things in your profile tends to get you noticed?
Re: Ask HN - Where do you look for jobs?
#36I don't look for jobs that have been posted — my feeling is that jobs that make it to Reddit / GitHub / Craigslist / Monthly Hiring Threads, are all jobs that have been picked over by people working at (or close with) the company. I make a list of the type of company I want to work with (I want to be paid $X, they should use this technology, I want to solve this problem or work on this project) and then I backtrace i…
Can you be more specific about this part: "Then, I contact those companies. I set up meetings when I can" How do you contact them, how do you pitch the idea of meeting with you?
I personally start by checking LinkedIn to see if I have any connections there - if not, then I go to my school's alumni network or ask my friends who work in that industry or live in that city to see if anyone can connect me.
Otherwise, it's the cold email...
Re: Ask HN - Where do you look for jobs?
#37I 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…
Can you expand on what you do for adding content to linked in every day? And how does that help?
add stuff to your reading list, participate in discussions, etc.
this helps because people presumably (i) see your content and (ii) this helps you in search
note two years ago I found that LinkedIn group were choked off by useless spam announcements and discussions. Things are much better now in some groups.
Spam is still a problem in many LinkedIn groups, but it's the responsibility of the group administrators to keep it under control. Many groups are dead but many are worthwhile.
LinkedIn lets you join up to 50 groups and you should take advantage of this fully. Of course, you want to join the best 50 groups so look for good groups and unsubscribe from bad groups.
Re: Ask HN - Where do you look for jobs?
#38This seemed like a good question that could be elaborated and stored on Quora as well. I compiled most of the sources as well as the original thread and put it on here:
http://www.quora.com/Web-Development/Where-do-you-look-for-d...
Re: Ask HN - Where do you look for jobs?
#39I 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.
It's an often repeated piece of common wisdom, but, for whatever it's worth, my experience is the opposite. I've had a number of jobs in my life, some of which I got through a friend and some by replying to an online job ad, and the latter kind were much better jobs, both by subjective feeling and by objective metrics I can think of (like, how much time I spent there before leaving, or how much money I was making.) It seems strange to me that people feel it's advantageous to restrict your employment options to companies where you have some kind of inside connection.
Re: Ask HN - Where do you look for jobs?
#40I browse on indeed occasionally. I'm a senior in college though and am applying to grad schools right now, so I've never seriously looked for a job before.