Good luck on the search! Particularly curious to hear your experience with recruiters; even though that industry should be really competitive at the moment with the great resignation and all, I've found they still feel kind of general and don't necessarily make great matches. But that certainly could just be my own limited experience with them, maybe the key is to find niche recruiters?<p>Not sure if you're interested in startups at all, but shameless plug: I recently made a startup jobs board[0], it tracks number of job posts each company has over time and ranks them so you can see how much each is growing.<p>[0] <a href="https://www.coolstartupjobs.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.coolstartupjobs.com</a>
I managed to land a well paying job with good work life balance by changing my approach to job seeking. Here's what I did.<p>1. I tracked all incoming offers in a spreadsheet with a column for salary and equity
2. I responded to every incoming lead on LinkedIn with 'what is the salary band for this role?' and 'how did you find my profile? What did you like about it?'<p>This allowed me to build a distribution of jobs available to me, and then I only ever took calls with the top 1% of those offers.<p>I must've spoken to 150 recruiters on chat, but I only interviewed for 6 companies and secured 4 offers.<p>I kept iterating on my LinkedIn based on the feedback from the initial chat interaction and very quickly I was getting really good leads.<p>I put in about 100h work over a year to get to that point. I still, 3 years later, regularly get offers with >200k GBP base compensation now.<p>EDIT: I forgot to add a key factor. When the recruiter responds with a salary that is below the top 1% you reply: 'Thank you, but I am currently only able to consider salaries with a base comp of at least X, please get back in touch with me if you find something in that range." - X being your current estimate of the top 1-5% of the distribution.
A bleak and honest look into the current job market but also hilarious and relatable. Every recruiter I've been contacted by always seems confused about some aspect of whatever job they are trying to find interviewees for.
Put a resume on Monster if you really want to feel wanted by a bunch of terrible options. I get some 30 recruiters a day from a resume I dumped on there out of curiosity.
I contacted someone at a well known large firm back at the start of May last year about a role. Filled out loads of forms online. Heard nothing.<p>Yesterday I got an email inviting me to arrange an interview, wondering if I'd still be available, and asking me for my salary expectations.<p>Sometimes you wonder how these firms work at all.<p>For those looking, my experience is that virtually all aggregator sites like efinancial and LinkedIn are black holes for applications. Just find the person who put up the advert and contact them directly. You can often see how many applicants there are and from there you can extrapolate how much time there really is to look at CVs. It's not good, but also it's impossible for all the CVs to be relevant. I've been on the hiring side myself and I can tell you there's a heck of a lot of people who apply for jobs they can't get.<p>People say a lot of things about third party recruiters but I keep in touch with a good few of them. They have certain benefits, mainly that you can straight up ask them about salary and they know a lot of firms who don't advertise.
Good luck! Make sure to get your resume done correctly. It won’t get you the job, but it helps get you accepted for interviews.<p>I wrote “How to write a great technical resume” here:
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Thanks for keeping a open diary. I am wondering if you find the big banner ad on your website worth the extra money, it makes the blog feel like a spam website.
> Posted on January 18, 2022 by Greg Bulmash<p>Job hunting two weeks into the first month of the quarter, yikes. This is going to make for an interesting read.