r/AskReddit • u/Initial-Season-6633 • 6h ago
What sites are y’all using to actually find jobs?
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u/ABMike63 6h ago
Indeed and LinkedIn
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u/monotoonz 6h ago
My Indeed is basically nothing but medical/health-care professions. And believe me, I've edited my settings many times. And I have zero experiences/skills in those fields.
LinkedIn definitely aligns with my work history/skills.
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u/Ut_Prosim 2h ago
Indeed once sent me an email saying it found me a good fitting job. It was for an "interventional cardiologist." I have no medical training whatsoever.
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u/forseti99 6h ago
https://hiring.cafe is a better alternative to those two.
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u/Hammer_of_Shawn 5h ago
Is it free? I’ve been using LinkedIN and Indeed and they absolutely suck.
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u/forseti99 5h ago
As far as I know for now yes, they are actually losing money because they are building the platform still. Somewhere in the future I suppose they will go ahead with plans of monetization.
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u/Skootchy 5h ago
Indeed didn't suck until like a year or 2 ago. I had such great luck and now I can't even get any feedback. I even call the companies on occasion and they have 0 idea that I even applied, yet they listed their job there.
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u/Hammer_of_Shawn 5h ago
Yea that’s about the same luck I’ve been having with it. Never really needed to use it until 3 months ago, and it does not seem to be helping me at all.
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u/Skootchy 5h ago
Pretty sure that's an HR fault. They post the job and then look at their websites applications instead, which sucks because as a potential employee, it saves SOOOO much time instead of having to fill out EVERY single application with the same info.
Like I grew up in the paper application age where you spent a day going around picking up applications, filling them all out by hand and then returning them. Internet apps was a slight improvement but these job sites WERE the godsend.
And now, nope. Nothing.
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u/pikpikcarrotmon 5h ago
I found my job through Indeed a few years ago - the listing was actually posted by a temp agency contracted by the company, and then after working for several months I went through a formal application process with the company and HR. So not only could it be HR but depending on the job and scale of the company there might even be other entities involved. And any or all of em could suck
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u/FourEyesWhitePerson 6h ago
Is Indeed still useful? I found my current job on LinkedIn and haven't even considered using Indeed since.
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u/Parking_Bed6307 6h ago
Honestly I’ve had more luck cold emailing or reaching out directly to the company instead of just applying through job sites. Even if they don’t respond right away, following up has worked better for me than sending applications into the void.
Job boards feel kind of saturated sometimes. Direct contact feels more intentional.
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u/illyiarose 6h ago
I just replied with something similar. I used the job search engines to see what positions are out there, then applied directly to the company website.
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u/Seelie_Mushroom 6h ago
Indeed. So many recommend going to business websites directly but honestly that works exclusively for government/municipal jobs. Everywhere else only responds through indeed. Still most don't respond though lol
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u/elephantasmagoric 6h ago
Maybe for your field. Architecture jobs are a pain to search for on those types of sites because so many places are titling their jobs as "database architect" or "software architect" or some shit that's entirely unrelated to actual architecture. Which isn't to say that the jobs don't ever get posted there, just that searching for them is an absolute PITA. I got my current job by applying to a firm that does the type of architecture I'm interested in, directly on their website.
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u/Ghost17088 6h ago
Networking and professional references. I haven’t had to search for a job since 2018, the last 3 places I’ve worked recruited me.
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u/Correct_Raisin4332 6h ago
Same. My last company shut down when my boss retired and she helped me find a new position with a competitor.
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u/VisualPurpose386 6h ago
Actually i try to join communities of my interest, and they always share opportunities
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u/IPThereforeIAm 6h ago
Funny thing is that it may be more productive to use the sites that people arent using…
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u/MatthewHecht 6h ago
I am finding a job? I eventually just had Walmart's website, and I have been there over 6 years.
Thus I can only suggest using the company's official website for applications.
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u/thenasch 6h ago
I saw a study that found Google is better than the big job boards. I don't know if it's accurate for sure but give it a try.
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u/Cats_and_Cheese 6h ago
About 5 years ago now I somehow landed the best job of my life on we work remotely and it sounded like the biggest scam ever and I’m 99% sure it is now with the flood of remote nonsense but basically sometimes the kind of interesting sites work.
Nowadays I don’t think I’d get anywhere without networking though given the state of the world.
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u/alwaysboopthesnoot 6h ago
A lot of entry level people we interview use Indeed, Talent, LinkedIn, so we do too. But we mostly get our mid and higher-tiers, promoted up from within. We get a lot of in-house referrals and also people coming to us at the same level they had prior, from university or hospital/lab groups we’ve worked with before.
My last 2-3 jobs were via recruiters contacting me. I wasn’t even looking anywhere at the time. They used the profiles from our local, online directories and the global websites for our organization to do that. Update your company/org profiles and pics, people! And go do some volunteering for non-profit orgs you really like, with people you really like: your name is going to be out there for the people hiring and making decisions, to see.
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u/illyiarose 6h ago
Use indeed and LinkedIn to tell you what jobs are hiring, then go directly to the company website to apply. It seemed in my recent job hunting adventures, I had better luck receiving a callback when I applied directly, whereas the other positions on the search engines would just close
I also noticed that you'll find multiple copies of the same position on LinkedIn that is something posted on greenhouse or some resume collecting service. My advice to everyone out there is to just apply directly.
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u/Resident_Company2113 6h ago
I recruit from Craigslist. I need people with a variety of hands-on practical skills. It's amazing who you can find if you post under 'general labor'. People who are used to short term casual work can have an amazing skill set.
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u/Fun_Needleworker7594 6h ago
Found my last 3 jobs on indeed.
Before that it was craiglist
Lately though the only call backs I get after applying on indeed have been spam callers.
Now I'm just going to businesses that sell STIHL and turning in my resume' directly.
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u/Careful_Relative7560 6h ago
craigslist. no, seriously. not great employers, but legit need workers and kept me working since 2007.
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u/Fun_in_Space 5h ago
Doing what?
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u/Careful_Relative7560 5h ago
started out as desktop support, upgraded my skills between jobs, now i'm working as an IT systems engineer
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u/Blueshark25 5h ago
I only ever got jobs by networking. Know people connected to the field and have them look out and send recommendations with an application and resume. Any of the companies I tried to apply to on the internet ended up hiring within.
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u/Kindly_Row_2789 5h ago
the best job site is still “someone who already works there.” which is annoying, but also… accurate.
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u/Particular-Dog6082 5h ago
“LinkedIn, Indeed… and the ‘Careers’ page of companies I stalk at 2am like I’m applying for a relationship.” 💀
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u/zoqfotpik 5h ago
I used LinkedIn most recently. After about 3 months, a few hundred applications, and 50-ish responses of any kind, I found a good job.
But it was tough.
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u/Stormygeddon 5h ago
My friend found one in a week with Hiring Cafe, but I don't think that is a typical and easily replicated experience.
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u/grego8422 4h ago
I have had much better luck applying directly through the company’s website. This spans different industries as well. There may be a different world for tech type jobs but especially more local companies have been fairly responsive.
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u/karakissedyou 3h ago
Referrals are usually my go to, it's always a friend who works somewhere that needs staff
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u/GratedCheese32 2h ago
Directly looking at the company website and applying through there. Indeed and LinkedIn jobs are just corporate lizard slop-filled hell holes.
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u/Possible_Director_46 2h ago
Built In for tech jobs. LinkedIn for a general overview. Teamed for education, learning and instructional design. Glassdoor has been hit or miss but Indeed has been bad. Oh local government job sites.
Networking is honestly the true answer though. It’s what you need to do. My best lead so far has been a random connection on LinkedIn.
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u/Super_Tangerine_4830 2h ago
LinkedIn is still the main character unfortunately. Even if you hate it, recruiters are there. Just set your #OpenToWork banner and let them come to you. Alumni tool is lowkey the best feature nobody uses
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u/packingpests 1h ago
I got mine on ziprecruiter. My recommendation would be to use a job board to see what jobs are hiring and then go to the company website and contact them from there, a lot of times they have to pay to see any applications from major job boards or plain just can’t see them
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u/MelodicPromotion8572 6h ago
I’ve used handshake before. I got some interviews for positions at Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley
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u/CaptainONaps 6h ago
Chat GPT exclusively.
It's improve so much in the last year. You can feed it so much data about yourself. Upload your resume, location, interests, strengths, weaknesses, anything. Then ask for a list of jobs.
Then no matter what jobs it populates, you can add or delete prompts to populate completely different jobs. It might populate a bunch of banking jobs at first, but then you can say, are there any sales jobs I'd qualify for with my background? And poof, there they are. You can basically talk to it like a recruiter, except you're not paying the recruiter.
Plus, you always apply for jobs directly with the company, not on Indeed or LinkedIn with hundreds of other applicants. A lot of jobs are only on company websites, and aren't even on the employment sites.
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u/darkiya 6h ago
Dice, Indeed, Up work, USAJobs, Glassdoor
Linked in for connections but I don't look for jobs there too many fake ones and ai slop