What are the current job/gig hunting websites?
March 2, 2021 5:35 PM Subscribe
Sure, I know about LinkedIn, Indeed, Monster - but - what's the new 'hotness'?
Looking for the current generation of job/gig hunting websites - special unique snowflake perspective, I prefer contract/project roles- so, gig sites would possibly be useful (but not... Fivrr or TaskRabbit).
Looking for the current generation of job/gig hunting websites - special unique snowflake perspective, I prefer contract/project roles- so, gig sites would possibly be useful (but not... Fivrr or TaskRabbit).
Just sharing that upwork is notorious for low freelance rates in some industries
posted by CancerSucks at 10:48 PM on March 2, 2021 [3 favorites]
posted by CancerSucks at 10:48 PM on March 2, 2021 [3 favorites]
Best answer: Upwork gigs can tend toward the feature requirements of the next Facebook with the budget of the corner lemonade stand -- I gather it's possible to piece together a decent living with a lot of effort to maintain a high job count and star rating, but's it's certainly not the first place I'd look.
Coming at this from the other end of the equation, we've had our best luck hiring from industry-specific sites rather than general-purpose places like Indeed or Monster -- for us that mostly means Stack Overflow, though we've started experimenting (with limited success so far) with gender- and POC-specific jobs sites as well in a bid to improve my department's diversity.
The resumes we get from Indeed tend to be much less impressive; fairly or not my take on it is that it's for people who don't know any better.
If you're in tech at all, SO is probably still your best bet. Or, I guess, go on Indeed and it'll be easier to outshine the competition :)
posted by ook at 9:33 AM on March 3, 2021 [2 favorites]
Coming at this from the other end of the equation, we've had our best luck hiring from industry-specific sites rather than general-purpose places like Indeed or Monster -- for us that mostly means Stack Overflow, though we've started experimenting (with limited success so far) with gender- and POC-specific jobs sites as well in a bid to improve my department's diversity.
The resumes we get from Indeed tend to be much less impressive; fairly or not my take on it is that it's for people who don't know any better.
If you're in tech at all, SO is probably still your best bet. Or, I guess, go on Indeed and it'll be easier to outshine the competition :)
posted by ook at 9:33 AM on March 3, 2021 [2 favorites]
Response by poster: Thanks everyone! Appreciate your answers, I didn't know SO had a talent section. Got sucked into one fake site via Google's job search, where they had an "Apply Now", which asked for email - typical, I thought - normal process to begin creating a profile... Then nothing, so basically a scraper and email harvester.
posted by rozcakj at 3:51 AM on March 4, 2021
posted by rozcakj at 3:51 AM on March 4, 2021
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