Good job hunting sites?

[Linux23]

I think after 14 years, it's time to move on. Love, love, love what I do, but as of late management is just finding dumber and dumber ways to make such a easy job just unbearable, to the point i'm losing motivation, so I figure time to shove off before they shove me off.

I work in IT, so I may just take a basic helpdesk gig just to get off of this boat that is sinking fast. Big cut in pay, but i'm realizing my health, which has been on the decline, is worth the cut.

Working on my Cisco certs (both tests at the same time), so hopefully by this time next year, i'll be in a better position. [I work with it sometimes here, but don't do it enough to qualify myself as a Pro, just yet.]

Any suggestions, throw em at me. Will get the old resume plumbed up and ready to go. Sad, all of the good people are leaving because of just awful, grandfathered in management.

 

[gorcorps]

I know a lot of people don't really care for the social media thing, but I find keeping an active LinkedIn profile helps. I get contacted fairly regularly about opportunities for me just from keeping my experience updated and such.

 

[CraKaJaX]

I know a lot of people don't really care for the social media thing, but I find keeping an active LinkedIn profile helps. I get contacted fairly regularly about opportunities for me just from keeping my experience updated and such.

QFT.

I get probably 5-6 emails a week from recruiters who found me on LinkedIn trying to fill a position I may qualify for.

Also, I tend to leave the massive job search websites as a last resort. I always recommend that you search for some companies you would like to work for and visit their website/careers page to see if they have an opening. Most big companies won't bother with monster, indeed, etc.

Good luck!

 

[Chaotic42]

I know a lot of people don't really care for the social media thing, but I find keeping an active LinkedIn profile helps. I get contacted fairly regularly about opportunities for me just from keeping my experience updated and such.

Yep.

Building up a network of friends and coworkers is really a great way to find new employment, unless you're bad at your job in which case it may be a negative.

 

[MustISO]

Definitely through friends and colleagues, a lot of jobs are found that way. I still browse the usual sites (Monster, Careerbuilder, Indeed) but find a lot of contacts through Linked-In as well. Many companies and recruiters will look for specific skills on Linked-in and contact you that way. If you post a resume on a career site, don't put your phone number and use a new email address. You'll get a lot of scammers contacting you.

 

[Linux23]

Yep.

Building up a network of friends and coworkers is really a great way to find new employment, unless you're bad at your job in which case it may be a negative.

Not bad at my job at all, but am tired of running at 100 mph, 5 days a week, with no slow down in work load and no logic on how we can reduce our work load and head count.

And I know what they do to managers here who don't just say, yes sir every time upper management wants a change so I was never interested in being a manager here.

 

[Linux23]

Will try Linked-In. Have a profile that I never used. I Never was really good at social networking, but now I know that I need to adapt and change to the ways things are done these days.

 

[Markbnj]

For my part Linked-In is just a big database recruiters use to spam you, and people you worked with ten years ago use to try to get you to endorse them.

Indeed.com and dice.com are my main resources when I need to look. Also weworkremotely.com.

 

[purbeast0]

dice and indeed are also the 2 i'd recomend. craigslist can be good too.

i stay far away from monster now a days though (or did 2 years ago when finding my latest gig)

 

[mmntech]

I've had success with LinkedIn so far in my job hunt. Got an interview lined up for tomorrow. Lots of jobs get posted on there, and it filters them out by your skills and past work history to find ones it thinks you might qualify for. It's also handy for researching potential employers. Even if you just want to know who to address cover letters to.

I've never had much luck with Monster. Media Job Search Canada is my go-to industry specific site, but reply-backs are rare.

 

[Newell Steamer]

Indeed.com is pretty snazzy.

 

[cabri]

Americas Job Bank is also useful.

 

[JBT]

LinkedIn.com for sure. I doubt I'd use anything else.

 

[Linux23]

Thanks all for the suggestions. It's really been a long time since I went looking.

Lesson learned from this. Never stay at a job past 3-5 years. Gain experience and new knowledge and move on.

 

[poopaskoopa]

I'd start with one of those "top 100 companies to work for" type of lists first and hit indeed/dice/simplyhired second. simplyhired can give you rather stupid results sometimes.

 

[microAmp]

Looks like Indeed.com will be of some good use to me.

I've tried Dice before but didn't seem to cover my line of work. Simplyhired seems to be okay for me too.

 

[smackababy]

Dice is pretty good. However, be selective. A lot of those postings aren't real and are just to get you into a database for recruiters to spam. I still, after removing my resume and not applying for anything for 2 years, get about 5 emails a day and a couple calls a week from recruits. And it is always for awful positions that don't even match what I have in my resume.

 

[Tweak155]

Dice has landed me more than one position. It focuses a lot around IT related positions.

 

[cabri]

Best thing in the engineering world is to get a half dozen recruiters from decent agencies.

Trusting the small cold calling ones that are heavily connected to the recruiters from India is a crap shoot.

Both in terms of communication, follow up and quality (match) of the position

I have had 2 decent ones with people from India; one was a small outfit and another a large one.

Over a dozen large ones within the past 3 months have contacted me. They have recruiters that cold call that do not know how to read a resume for quality matched. they just use a word search.