I am sick and tired of Indeed. It nothing but sales jobs and it ignores your filters. Monster full of scams or just links to other job searching sites that want you to create an account on their platform. Last ziprecuriter is also full of spam and garbage.
Working from home a year now and tired of the bullshit. Now not getting paid because computer stop working and having to wait for a replacement. On top of always working with no back to back days off.
Anyone know best place to apply? Tried locally but nothing but low pay retail and fast food jobs in the area. I have insurance license and still willing to work remotely.
Hiring.cafe
The website aggregates the jobs from the direct websites of companies and I don’t believe allows posting so there are a ton less “fake” listings. Just found my latest job last week on there and cannot recommend it enough.
Not sure the ethics of the methods of the aggregation but it certainly was a fresh air especially since you do not need an account.
Had hire cafe but most jobs are not local. But will try again.
You can refine the search to show only jobs within a specific city. Good luck!
There’s no best site, depending on your work the market has just been completely broken at this point. If in the US, the jobs numbers are being manipulated and things are in a historically bad position. We’re so much worse off than is being discussed .
One of the key factors in the acceleration toward the Holocaust was extremely high unemployment and groups that felt desperate and/or had nothing left to lose. Take away hope from all, promise one group that the only thing stopping them from succeeding at that point is the “other” group.
It’s a dark answer, but we are living in dark fucking times and it’s true.
LinkedIn can be annoying but can give you a vague sense of what to search for.
Then once you have specific terms just throw stuff at search engines and apply directly to career pages/employer sites instead of through a job aggregator.
It’s not foolproof but that’s how I found my current job.
I don’t think which job site you use matters all that much, as long as you’re using it to find the careers page for the company that you want to apply for, and apply there, rather than through the aggregator.
The important function is you only know a small number of companies that might hire for you. So you need to find more alternatives. Once you know who they are you can apply.
Don’t forget that who you know is more important than what you know. So talk to everyone you know. Maybe they know someone who is hiring and can get you a position not posted and thus no competition.
Sometimes the company is obscured on job boards, sometimes the company does not update their careers page. It’s easy to say “fuck that company then” when you’re in a comfortable position, but you don’t feel much of a choice when you’re desparate to change.
Things my boss didn’t understand at my last job. No one applies because your indeed page sucks. No one knows who you are and your business name doesn’t imply what you do. People will scroll right past you.
Nah, I get that feeling that you’ll do whatever it takes. My suggestion is a lot more helpful for the first 50 applications than say applications 250 to 300, I’ll admit. But I’ll stand on the idea that, given an easy apply button on an aggregator, and filling out the application on a company’s career site, I have found more success with the latter than the former, on average.
When I was looking for a job out of school a few years ago, if it wasn’t patently obvious what company I was applying to, I just scrolled to the next listing. There certainly wasn’t a shortage of listings to choose from, even though many of them ghosted me or may have been fake positions in the first place.
I only got a handful of interviews and 2 offers from ~300 applications, it’s really just a numbers game to some extent. Definitely not worth wasting time applying if they can’t be up front about who you’re applying to.
HaHere’s a query I used to use to look at all employer hiring sites directly without going through a job board.
(site:myworkdayjobs.com OR site:smartrecruiters.com OR site:icims.com OR site:boards.greenhouse.io OR site:pinpointhq.com OR site:jobs.ashbyhq.com OR site:workable.com OR site:jobs.lever.co OR site:teamtailor.com) ("title1" OR "title2” OR "title3") ("infrastructure" OR "Information Technology" OR "IT") "remote"Just play around with the titles and any additional things you want. But it generally pulled from the sub domains of companies that used greenhouse, workday, etc for their job boards.
Most people my age (40s) in the trades are looking fruitlessly for good helpers. Easy $30-40/hr after a couple years if you can read a measuring tape, show up sober & on time and stay off your phone.
Unfortunately I unable to do physical labor jobs due to health issues in my past.
That’s fair. My body is in pretty good shape but I’m tired all the time and experiencing more and more issues because of the work. It’s definitely not easy.
In my experience, almost every job I’ve ever had was earned through making connections to people. I went to an event, introduced myself to people that looked interesting, and either asked for a job or was randomly offered one. I’ve also secured a couple jobs the old fashioned way applying with a resume or responding to Craigslist posts but all the jobs I really enjoyed came from talking to people IRL at events.
Go to networking events like neighborhood get togethers or big events in a city nearby. Talk with people and opportunities open up. Sometimes I look on Indeed but contact them directly or in person.
Unfortunately any time there is events around here it to fill minimum wage jobs. Not going leave a 20 dollar hour remote gig for shit wage jobs.
I have been most successful through referrals and in-person connections vs online. Online gave me a lot of empty responses in job apps filled out, and seems like the biggest time waster.
Indeed seems better fit for SMBs.
LinkedIn is cutthroat corporate jobs and ass-hat humble bragging dipshits. If anything, LinkedIn allowed me to reach out to people I knew or know and still talk to, ask about how they like their jobs and company, and ask for a referral. That’s the best route. Doesn’t catch them off guard, and tells you if they like you enough to stick their neck out for you.
Yeah, every “real” job I’ve had was due to contacts I made while freelancing or working other jobs. The sad reality is that it’s not what you know, it’s who you know. Most of the people in my industry who struggle to find (and keep) work are because they have a bad reputation, or they’re an asshole and nobody wants to work with them. Being kind and personable (and showing up sober in an industry where that isn’t taken for granted) will do a lot more for your career than any job site will.
Job markets absolute shit right now.
Linkedin’s good for recruiters, and networking with previous employees/stalking what companies they ended up at. I never had luck applying to jobs through linkedin though.
Hiring.cafe’s good for finding hidden stuff.
Glassdoor for researching whether or not a company’s any good…they are getting worse over time though, fully expecting some kind of paid version to come out down the road.
Indeed, you already covered, but there were a handful of listings that turned into interviews for me. Ziprecruiter, never used cause it posted repeats usually.
If there’s a specific line of work you do, try to find social media on it. Some communities will have job boards on them.
Outside of that, just need good luck and patience 🙏
Working with recruiters seems to be the best way to find new positions right now
I agree, all my real success has been with technical recruiters.
Temp to perm positions where the head hunter takes a fee until you are either hired on or move to another contract
How to get them to look for jobs for you
It definitely depends on the career field but with an in demand career field, you’ll occasionally get hit up with people who think you fit a job description.
I think if you can work with a job agency to try and find more general positions if you’re not seeing a lot of recruitment for your career
Ah ok. Inbound recruiters headhunting for a position I’m familiar with and I agree, it’s the best way.
I was thinking if there could be a way to take that approach to a working relationship. A recruiter looking for a job you’d fill instead
I use linkedin but can’t say its great. Its my primary because it has my connections along with references I have recived and given. As such I set it up the most with all my info. I think I got my last job from it but its kinda hard to say looking back at email. I don’t see how else the recruiter would have found me though. Its funny how these things get passed around its hard to say where it even started until it was somewhat of a real thing. Been unemployed for almost two years looking on linkedin though.
I kept getting annoying recruiters contacting me while I still had a job, but once I switched it to being available for work, I got nothing.
I only get attention from scammers on LinkedIn. Some of them are quite clever in their approach.
yeah its kinda funny because I have been hit up by one before and I give them the benefit of the doubt and im like you will have to give me more detail. Its been a week or so and I get one that is a hodge podge of stuff from my resume and im like. this is not specifica about a job. seem to be related to trying to sell you a business from my looking around at the contact information and accounts and such.
are you willing to move?
Pro tip: Go where the work is.
If it’s in the middle of nowhere, the company has to take whatever its given. This means that there’s hardly any competition, and even a recent graduate can get a decent job. As long as your degree is at least a little bit relevant, you’ll get the job easily. The locals who also applied are just drunken idiots who barely know how to read.
Huh why?
Depends where you live honestly, but I had luck with jooble although you’ll have to go on the recruiting agency site.
