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Re:Facebook rolls out job posts to become the blue-collar Li... by Balgair on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @03:16PM (#16486391)
I've been on the hunt for a while and I'll echo these sentiments. Indeed, Zip, Monster, LinkedIn, most of them are just 'ghost' jobs. Maybe they already have an internal candidate, maybe they have had the posting up for 2 years, maybe they are recruiters that are just fishing idly. There's a million reasons, but they all end up being just a time suck and resume black-hole.

Look, I know: network. That's the way to get work. But I suck at networking. I don't feel that it's because I'm unsociable, it's that I don't know anyone that that is working at a place that is hiring. All my contacts are in my same boat of shitty jobs in a shitty area (biotech-denver)

Does anyone know how to break out into another region where you don't know anyone? How to do remote-networking?

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Re:Facebook rolls out job posts to become the blue-collar Li... by iamdave on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @04:03PM (#16486873)
I'm not even lying when I say this: 2 out of my last 3 jobs as a remote site reliability engineer have come from Reddit. They were contract gigs, and you have to do a bit more work vetting folks, but every now and then you'll find a recruiter who actually knows wtf they're doing with tech people.

So yeah, 2/3 in 5 years getting quality remote jobs via reddit of all places.

/r/forhire, /r/devopsjobs, /r/sysadminjobs

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Re:Facebook rolls out job posts to become the blue-collar Li... by Balgair on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @06:10PM (#16488124)
I'll try this out for bio-tech, thanks for the tip.
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Re:Facebook rolls out job posts to become the blue-collar Li... by astral303 on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @04:03PM (#16486874)
One idea: look up the closest somewhat-relevant tech meetup on meetup.com -- it might be worthwhile to travel, even if it's 3 hours away.
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Re:Facebook rolls out job posts to become the blue-collar Li... by Balgair on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @06:09PM (#16488118)
Oh man, I've done a lot of this. The problem is that everyone else is trying to get a job too, there aren't really any employers here despite the med campus. Thanks for the tip though.
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