where to search for jobs?

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1. Are the wages just “shit” in your area or are they similar levels elsewhere?

2. If you have a more developed skill set, there’s likely to be a more specialist recruitment site/aggregator.

3. LinkedIn? I get people reaching out to me all the time.

4. Unfortunately (it’s an absolute shitshow) LinkedIn is where a huge amount of jobs are advertised

5. I found my current job on LinkedIn. It’s the only reason to use LinkedIn IMO. You will get a shit ton of recruitment wankers hounding you though.

6. Gumtree is a good one all kinds of jobs on there .

7. CV Library is my preferred job site.

8. Goodmoves is a good website for third sector jobs.

9. Civil service jobs maybe

10. Job centre.

11. Find a Job gov.uk – before you can grant a work visa to foreigner you have to advertise job here for a month and prove that no fitting applicants with existing right to work. Majority of employers are large companies and disclose the salary, do give it a try. You need to upload CV and short cover letter to apply for a job, no non-sense approach.

12. The way I got my last job was just upload my CV to job sites and wait for recruitment agencies to contact me. I found a job that wasn’t advertised that way.

13. I find Indeed, Monster etc are full of generic job posts, half of which aren’t even real jobs (make money on surveys etc).

    LinkedIn has good job searching tools, which I do use. But I find the best way is to make a list of companies in the field I’m interested in and they go directly to their careers website. Lots of jobs never make it on search engines.
    Best way for me is to make a list of

14. Depending on your skills/manage, there are always local council or NHS jobs.

    The pay not always great, depends on the role. But they tend to have better terms and conditions, such as sick leave, pensions, redundancy, etc.

    Also once you get one job, there are always opportunities to move up, career development or go different direction,

15. I usually just search for the job title/area I’m looking for (e.g. quantum computing) and then go directly to company websites that look good, and apply from there if I want to.

16. Linked in / cv library / total jobs and indeed – also let a handful of recruiters who cover your industry know you are looking and make your cv live on a couple of these sites.

    I have 4 interviews currently, some of the pay isn’t where it needs to be but I have an offer and have been clear with the others what is on the table and what I expect and one has come up 15k to meet that. I have been shocked at how low offered salaries are given inflation – the rates have been less than jobs I went for in 2012

    Pay peanuts get monkeys eh.

    If you know where you want to work contact them directly.

17. Govs website probably isn’t popular but there’s plenty of advertising on there for work

18. Saw you say on another comment that you’re a retail manager, which is good because there’s two transferable skills right there – giving delightful customer service, and management responsibility. So here’s my advice that I’d give to anyone who told me they were a bit stuck on the careers front.

    Start digging up a master list of tech-ish startups/former startups that are now a bit more established but still modern in ideology. Including but not limited to financial companies like neo banks, insurance, investment platforms, whatever. LinkedIn can help you with this because their algorithm should start to get your vibe as you ‘follow them’. There are loads. Many based in London but that’s not important.

    Most of these companies will have customer support roles. And most of them won’t be big enough to have outsourced their customer support outside of the UK yet.

    I recommend companies like this because for most of them, their ethos and practices will fall on the modern side of things. They’ll almost certainly be remote friendly (if not encourage it), and are less likely to treat you like shit.

    Another key reason for joining a startup is that if you’re good and they like you, the promotion opportunities will be there. Companies that are growing quickly will create jobs like there’s no tomorrow. You could find yourself rapidly upskilling in areas you never anticipated.

    All the best.