It's not so much paying people to find me a job. What I'm looking for is a reliable way to find good leads at companies that do the simple things to keep their

It's not so much paying people to find me a job. What I'm looking for is a reliable way to find good leads at companies that do the simple things to keep their staff happy and are continuously looking to make whatever they make the best possible. So far I haven't found a good way to find that through just trawling the internet and hoping to find gold. People such as yourself (and to a lesser extent me I guess) have a solid professional network. That network kind of pre-vets stuff before they send it on to us. That's really good because you tend to stay in touch with people you like, and we usually like the same things as the people we like. Things like HN who's hiring do help because the kind of companies that post there are likely to have a similar outlook to me (after all we frequent the same place). Edit: when I said I have a professional network - it's not that wide. While a couple of things have come up from it, it's not like other stories of just letting people know they're available and getting hired