Ask HN: How do you look for a new job?

Posted by dragosb91 on Friday April 05, 2019 @03:24PM
from the ask-hn dept.

Do you look at job posting sites and which one? Do you use sites like Glassdoor or any other alternative? Do you ask friends about open positions at different companies?

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Re:Ask HN: How do you look for a new job? by muzani on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @01:17AM (#19611986)

Generally, job sites are the least effective way. You'll end up running the resume lottery as well as the tech interview gauntlet. You can probably skip a couple of layers of interviews, drastically increasing your odds by knowing someone.

For my first job, I ran through generic job sites for 3 months with no luck and a lot of frustrating idiotic questions (one person rejected it because she couldn't open PDF and another rejected me in a phone interview for not knowing the company's address by heart).

I eventually just ran through all my Facebook friends asking for a job, and got one with an old family friend. Another two friends referred to me other job opportunities which I later turned down. And I basically just went through 15 people.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you look for a new job? by Adamantcheese on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @12:27AM (#19611793)

Find companies on job boards, find jobs on company sites. Glassdoor to check if it's relatively OK. Resume doesn't mean much because even with tailoring I got nothing. But if you do need to, use .docx files. Avoid PDF, it can't be parsed correctly (most of the time) because it's a print format, not a text format. Avoid using Monster at all costs. The number of emails I got for things I wasn't even remotely qualified for was insane.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you look for a new job? by AKhoo on Sunday April 07, 2019 @03:07PM (#19599159)

I'd encourage a multi-pronged approach: * Job boards make it easy to find jobs, but it's a volume game * If you find a job or company you like, you can go the extra mile by cold emailing someone on the team for an informational interview -- you can learn a lot more about the job, the team, and get a leg up versus other candidates * You should definitely tell your friends you're looking and ask for referrals

Like @pradpk said, the quality of your resume and anything you apply with is key. Job search success is basically (Volume ) x (Conversion Rate).

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Re:Ask HN: How do you look for a new job? by pradpk on Friday April 05, 2019 @04:06PM (#19586492)

First and foremost, you need to have a decent looking resume. Normally, I would search for jobs in sites (without enrolling) like google.com/jobs, stackoverflow.com/jobs and also update my LinkedIn profile. If I am dead serious, I would add my profile in any of the job sites like monster.com, indeed.com, dice.com etc..Hope it helps.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you look for a new job? by JSeymourATL on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @10:50AM (#19615237)

Look for the Senior Executive you can best help.

Hop on Linkedin. Sort individual profiles by Titles/Market/Industry/Key Word, etc..

Ex: CTO , VP Engineering, Manager E-Commerce

Then reach out to them direct.

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