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Ask HN: How did you find your current job?
A. Recruiter
B. Job portal (which one?)
C. A referral (from a friend or co-worker)
D. Sent resume to the target employer
E. Direct outreach from an employer
F. Other
- harveyramer 5y agoC. A good friend knew the CTO at the company and recommended me.
- ragnarkon 5y agoC. Wife's childhood friend's husband.
- MilnerRoute 5y agoFriend.
- noduerme 5y agoIn 2005, I answered a craigslist ad and got a job for $12/hr photoshopping decals for tourists at a kiosk at a mall. 12pm-8pm. The kiosk owner asked me to build a website for him. So I did. His cousin who was starting a new non-tech business saw the website and asked if I could write custom business software for it. I said I didn't have any experience in that, but if he paid me $30k up front and the rest on the back, I'd move to south america and spend a year figuring it out. He did, I did, and now I make $160/hr writing their software, and still have freedom to take other clients when I want to. The best advice I can give is to never say a job is beyond your knowledge - say you will figure it out, and then mean what you said and figure out how to do an excellent job so you get hired again.
- cpach 5y agoA
- stephane-klein 5y agoC + D
- aprdm 5y agoD
- perttir 5y agoD
- Anand_S 5y agoC
- hbcondo714 5y agoA + B I applied to a job posting on Dice that was posted by a recruiter
- bspammer 5y agoF: I went to a careers fair and had a chat with the CEO and an early employee. 2 years later, we’re a 100+ person company :D
- mjrbrennan 5y agoF: Saw a job posting from one of the founders on Twitter. Almost didn’t apply but then I did and it all worked out, best job decision I’ve ever made!
- muzani 5y agoB. Job portal. Funny enough I applied on two sites without realizing it. They accepted me quickly from one, and rejected me from another. I've had a 100% ghosting rate from that other portal, including the company that hired me. That portal even sent me a rejection email once, while I was in interviews with the company.
- JulesRosser 5y agoF: Emailed the company after seeing their post in a HN: Who's hiring thread
- shoo 5y agoin reverse chronological order: C; A; B; B; B.
- jpmoral 5y agoA
- quickthrower2 5y agoF: linked in ad
- sloaken 5y agoA / E - A recruiter for a contract firm found me, and rented me to a client. The Client decided he was tired of having contractors and offered me a job.
- ditzdragos 5y agoC
- ryanchants 5y agoA. And I'm currently using A for my next role(though maybe not with Who's Hiring happening in a few days)
- 2rsf 5y agoSent Resume to target employer through a Job Portal (LinkedIn)
- cddotdotslash 5y agoF. They acquired the company I founded. Now I work for them.
- bwh2 5y agoD
- Jugurtha 5y agoC and D. I applied on the job portail and sent an email. Ten minutes later, I got a call from the CTO. He sent me a test. I saw the file was a .tar.gz file, and I liked that. Other employers replied, asked how much I was getting paid (which I declined to answer), proposed they pay more than whatever I'm paid at my crurrent job, which I replied to that it was generous, but that I liked where I worked. I had given up an offer in the energy sector that paid soooooooooo much more, as in ridiculously not even funny more, to get that job. I'm still there.
- high_byte 5y agomakes me happy to hear people like you do what makes them happy, not more money.
- Jugurtha 5y agoWell, if it makes you happier I've declined many, many pay raises at the company to manage its finances, reduced my salary so others get paid, and proposed I go without it at times. So did a couple of colleagues. I remember the then CTO and cofounder, who quit about a year and a half in, telling me that's all they could pay. I couldn't prevent the thought of "Awww, I want to build a mitherfucking organization out of this" from crossing my mind. For now, it's a unibrow like myself, not a multicorn yet. We'll get there.
- codingdave 5y agoC/E - I actually had quit my current job a few years ago, because I was no longer interested in working for the guy who my boss at that time. Literally the day after he left the company, they called me and asked me to come back. So I did.
- Jeremy1026 5y agoA. I contacted my recruiter network, which is a small list of recruiters that have proven to not suck. Only send me jobs that make sense and that I have had a conversation with that convinced me they knew what they were doing. One of those referred me to their co-worker who had a position that fit what I was looking for.
- lmiller1990 5y agoC, kind of. Fellow OSS maintainer recommended me.
- markus_zhang 5y agoA. She did a very good job.
- aristofun 5y agoD
- max_hammer 5y agoB/D :Found job posting in LinkedIn with Visa sponsorship. Contacted manager directly as I was "overqualified" for the role. Job requirements was for "4 years of experience" as engineer and I was working in Indian IT services company as Associate Architect for 11 years without any on-site experience.