After sending out 60+ resumes over 5 months, the best online resource and responses on those resumes came from hiring.cafe. I ultimately ended up getting a bonafide job offer from my own people network but I did receive some amazing leads from hiring.cafe and would suggest you give them a try if you’re job hunting.
What Didn’t Work
The worst response rate and quite frankly the most useless online resource was LinkedIn. I kept getting annoying emails to apply for roles that match my skill set and when I did, I rarely received a call. If anything as soon as I went back to check on LinkedIn, it would have “100+ people have applied for this role” as a caption on the job role.
It seems LinkedIn just tries to flood company’s inbox with responses likely to prove how “awesome” at is at attracting candidates to roles but since companies end up drowning in responses, the whole thing becomes useless for both the company and the candidate.
Alternatives
I’ve had some success with Indeed.com on a few roles and I hardly used them this time around because there wasn’t anything that matched what I was looking for in a role. Hiring.cafe was far better than Indeed this time around.
Another resource I would recommend would be Dice.com. A friend told me he had recent success on that website so I gave it a try and while it’s a tech focused job board, there are some non-tech roles that pop up in there. I think I applied to a few roles here and got a couple of responses.
Hiring.cafe
I have no affiliation with hiring.cafe other than as an end-user with positive results but the caption on the website reads, “Our quest to destroy Indeed and LinkedIn by building a 10x better job search engine.”
The premise of this website is that is scans actual job postings from the firms websites then sorts, aggregates, and makes them searchable. The developers were as frustrated with Linkedin as I was so I guess they built this website.
What I liked about it is I could type a keyword and it would only produce results with that keyword. It killed the rest of the non-keyword related stuff.
Even though I have a job offer, I will continue to search and apply until I officially start my job and end up with a real paycheck. There is always the possibility that things change from now till my start date and I’m required to keep searching for roles to collect unemployment until I get a new paycheck.
Share The Wealth
Comments should be re-enabled now with a new spam captcha so hopefully you can leave a comment below and let me know what resources you’re using to find a new role.