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Western US, I work FT in financial crime as a senior analyst. I’m actively looking for a new employer and applying for postings that meet my privileged requirements because I’m not yet desperate. I’m also considering taking a part-time job (how the fuck do we manage to afford to live anymore, seriously?!) that’s something entry level and social.

That said, I primarily browse on LinkedIn for a replacement to my main gig, and I’ve used Indeed a little bit. For the PT gigs, I am using a local paper’s app to browse their classifieds.

Edit to add: I also use Blind and Glassdoor to get a read on the places I’m applying. No one wants to work at some shithole if it can be helped. If you’re looking for a referral to places, I’d recommend asking in the company’s Blind if someone is willing.

How do you find anything useful on LinkedIn? (Serious question) Filtering on location with few of and/NOT search terms doesn't yield many results. Their suggested jobs are irrelevant crap riddled with 95% repeating promoted crap that you can dismiss but your dismiss gets ignored.

I use indeed and it's been steadily getting to the same point as LinkedIn where they repeat promoted shit, ignore filters you setup and just straight up serve useless garbage irrelevant to search terms.

Tried monster and zip recruiter couple of times, it was never better than any of the above so I didn't bother continuing to try.

• Sweden
• Tech
• 7 YoE, Senior level

What I did last time was to write down every company I could see myself working for here in town, and checked their career pages/contacts I knew at the company for openings. Then I browsed LinkedIn to figure out any other potential opportunities.

Finally, I applied to 10 companies simultaneously. I got rejected by one, rejected a few before coming to the offer stage (the remaining didn't complete their processes in time), and landed five offers that I tried my best negotiating against each other before signing one.

Midwest US. Federal employee. I currently work operations. 11 year as a mechanic 2 years in operations and now I just keep track of the guys doing my former job. 4 days a week, 10 hour shifts $31.61/hour

usajobs.gov - There are jobs open to the public and jobs that require military service as well

All kinds of jobs in all kinds of fields. Unions as well

Sweden.

IT / Finance sector

Early to mid stage in my career

I got laid off in January, and have signed a new job starting in a few weeks, I found if through LinkedIn

I'm in the US and work for the government (and have worked at all levels but federal), so I just go straight to neighboring city/county/state websites. Those positions end up on other job sites a lot of the time, but not reliably and you can't apply there, so no reason to bother.

When I was looking for a PT job to help pay off student loans, I started with Indeed and the like, but there's so much trash on there that it wasn't really worth bothering. I ended up thinking of a few places I could stand to work and again going right to their sites. I don't know wtf I would've done if I'd been a little more desperate and/or worked primarily in the private sector. Seems like a nightmare.

Chicago, food & hospitality, I primarily use CulinaryAgents.com

But just walking around handing out resumes still works great

I got my current job at a German university as a programmer through some shady site that scrapes job listings. It still had a link to an outdated PDF looking for programmers. The person listed as a contact didn't work there anymore. And at least that position had already been filled.

But when I applied my application was forwarded to the correct person and they were about to post a new opening. It was a perfect fit.

Luckily for me, because the only other job available in that area was at a shady data collection firm that I definitely didn't want to work at.

UK based Senior software engineer here (by title anyways, I have a little over 3 years experience iirc so I’m more a mid stage-wise). I kinda use indeed, mostly use linkedin and recruiters though. My last two jobs, a recruiter just reached out to me with companies I’d never heard of or looked for. But I got on their radars by applying to postings on linkedin.

Based in the UK, work in accountancy.

Got my current job from an internal promotion/sideways move from Purchase Ledger to Commercial Finance. I was in the process of being made redundant before I got the promotion. Before that, I got my job through Reed (the agency.)

I'm not currently looking for jobs, but I'd honestly look on Indeed if I was seeking something. There are very few recruitment agencies I'd actually recommend, and those are: Red Recruitment, Robert Half, Reed and Ashley Rees Associates. A few agencies are on my shit-list but I won't namedrop them.

LinkedIn to me is just 90% recruiter spam and 10% corporate boot-licking. It's where you go when you want to post disingenuous motivational quotes about how great the working world is.

Many jobs get filled through networking. Basically every single job I've had since I worked at a pizzeria as a teenager. If you want to find good jobs, you need to network.

I'm currently in telecom and we post things online but it's mostly for show. When we need someone we call around.

Indeed, Glassdoor, this types keep finding me apparently great jobs but after going through 5 resume uploads and 3 online tests tied through endless cookie tracking, I seem to rarely actually finish everything "required" for the recruiter to say okay I might look at this person, maybe interview them myself a few times. Then they'll decide whether the actual company will see your resume.

Live entertainment production. Currently eastern United States, but I have used this method almost everywhere in the US. I am a production manager, so I let all the companies in town know I’m there, and freelance gigs just happen. Sometimes I’ve liked working with a company so much, I’ll accept their job offer, but usually I get more money working freelance.

I had success with LinkedIn. I knew the exact company I wanted to work for(had been eyeing a role in said company for over 5 years)and applied for all the openings that were relevant to my skill set.

Got rejected on 4/5. But that's beside the point because the last one was a remote role and was a much higher position than the other 4.

ZipRecruiter

I'm a mid-career mechanic in the USA. I found my last job on Indeed.

There were TONS of mechanic jobs available in my area (Seattle). I was able to be really picky.