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Honest Job Sites?
theirpuppet asks: "I've hit every job site I can find, and it's pretty much impossible to find an honest one. Dice displays the same ads regardless of whether you want the last day's postings or the last week's. Monster sells your email addy to every spammer in the universe. The other ones lie about the amount of viable postings that they have, or they just rip them from Dice/Monster. Where are the honest ones, worth visiting? Yes I know the tricks, don't give your email addy out, apply to the companies directly. But it's not the point. Spending hours a day combing through the same ads over and over in search of one that might be new is ridiculous!"
not that i've gotten a job from anything i've sent through craigslist, but the postings there seem rather more like actual existing job openings than the "let's send out our weekly advertisement on hotjobs" listings.
Your newspaper's classifieds are indicative of the market. Don't see any tech jobs in there? Then there probably aren't any -- at least none they're considering unsolicited candidates for. Start looking at temping and be prepared to take some truly crappy and short-term jobs in that field...
I've finally had it: until slashdot gets article moderation, I am not coming back.
As a former hiring manager at various dot coms and now CEO of my own, I can tell you that I would never bother to put an ad on a job site. Doing so would just be asking for a barage of emails from people I have no interest in hiring. The only effective way I have found is to network. I always get my people from user groups or from mailing lists I am apart of. If in the rare case that I can't find someone from those two places then I use a recruiter. Not any recruiter mind you as only good ones are worth their weight. For those who care, I am currently using the services of WaveStaff, which is a company started by my former agent.
I am currently completing the beta testing of http://consultutah.com's new site. (Mine)
I am a senior developer at a mid-sized company in Utah. As we were trying to hire people, we received millions of calls from "headhunters" wanting 25-35% of the person's first year salary!
I, then, started ConsultUtah LLC.
ConsultUtah.com will do the following:
1. Never give out your personal information to advertisers
2. When a company wants to contact you, you will receive an email asking if you want to give that company permission to contact you
3. We charge 10% of the person's first year salary (to the hiring company) and that percentage can be negotiated based on volumn.
Right now I am accepting emails addresses to notify you when we go live. (November 1st) You will only receive a single email from us, then our knowledge of your email address will be blown away...
I do everything the voices in my head tell me to...