How do you search for jobs?

So I am set in some respects; I have a part-time job that pays well for the hours I work, but that will only cover my student loans and gasoline payments. I am therefore pretty damn interested in getting another 40 hr job at wherever will hire me...I have been searching online, but goddamn there are waaaay too many websites and some of them are confusing as hell.

So that tempted me to ask here, how do you lads usually go about looking for a job? Newspapers? Ride around town? Websites?

Let me know.

All are welcome to speak of crazy experiences as well.

When I was living in London, I went about looking for an assistant engineer job. I must've delivered some 120+ CV's - I added "expert in the serving of hot and cold beverages" under skills. Got called for 3 job interviews and a personal "no thanks" e-mail from Dave Bascombe,

depends completely on what you want to do. do you have specialized experience in anything? degrees? looking for gov't or private? big or small business? if you're not picky it makes it a little easier but no less overwhelming.

if you have some sort of degree and aren't sure what to do with it, take some civil service exams. even if you don't get a job immediately your name is on file somewhere as a competent human and you may get a call one day. and if you don't have a degree, try and take some civil service exams anyway. most low level ones aren't hard and have silly titles like "keyboard specialist" that set you up with stable, decent paying jobs with benefits.

  On 1/14/2012 at 9:04 PM, theSun said:

depends completely on what you want to do. do you have specialized experience in anything? degrees? looking for gov't or private? big or small business? if you're not picky it makes it a little easier but no less overwhelming.

 

if you have some sort of degree and aren't sure what to do with it, take some civil service exams. even if you don't get a job immediately your name is on file somewhere as a competent human and you may get a call one day. and if you don't have a degree, try and take some civil service exams anyway. most low level ones aren't hard and have silly titles like "keyboard specialist" that set you up with stable, decent paying jobs with benefits.

I have an MA but im more looking for a 8-12 month job in customer service, nothing too major. Less stress, flexible hours.

I have already applied to a few restaurants and a Wawa (though I dread having to work there).

I guess I am curious to see if any of you guys would recommend a website like Monster, or something similar. There seem to be 40 different of these sites and I am definately not registering to each and every one...huge pain in the ass nevermind all the spam I will probably get.

thanks for the idea about the civil service exam though Sun, I never considered looking into a govt job before.

I apply for every available job possible and whoever calls me first gets my services.

for the Americans in here, when you get a question on the application asking how much you would like to be paid, what is the best way to answer this? I would ask well above minimum wage, but I don't know if that offputs certain employers.

I just talk to random people I meet about my job many of them want me to work for them afterwards. It became a bit much now so I stopped talking about it

you have an MA and you're applying working at wawa? why did you get the MA?

The MA got me a teaching position, but its pt. time.....Im hoping to get into a PhD program in the fall, so I have a 6-month space where I am just trying to work my ass off and make as much money as possible...Im pretty damn thankful for the teaching job but its not exactly enough to build up a savings account.

PhD positions are plentiful --here at least--, and i'm talking idm positions. despite certain doubts i decided to go for it. doesn't pay that well tbh, but it's hard research. go for it my smetty.

make your own job: start an online business.

it's really not that hard, you just need a skill, a site, and a paypal account. here's one i literally dreamed up and launched in 2 days:

http://startupgods.com

made thousands of dollars until i got bored of doing it, and stopped accepting new orders.

I am on some recruitment website things, but because the sort of job I want is quiet specialised/hardly any jobs out there I have been sending my CV to companies so I'm on file.

I go on Kijiji & look for ads like "need someone to bury a rolled up carpet in the woods, will pay $15/hour".

I live off <$5000 a year so that's usually enough.

  On 1/14/2012 at 10:29 PM, chaosmachine said:

make your own job: start an online business.

 

it's really not that hard, you just need a skill, a site, and a paypal account. here's one i literally dreamed up and launched in 2 days:

 

http://startupgods.com

 

made thousands of dollars until i got bored of doing it, and stopped accepting new orders.

This.

I want to be self employed but if I'm going to get a mortgage it's better for you to be employed.

Im on reed and some other job websites, they're ok for 'normal' jobs be aware that if you get hired by recruitment they can take a cut of your wage etc.

agency temp. work can be a good way in.. or, sometimes it pays better than a salary job. so, it could be a way to save up some money. i think that can work for you serious business people.. i dunno

oh hey tauboo. what do you do?

catering

Have friends who work for a large company? Apply to a position there and ask them to pass your resume along to the right person along with their words of praise. It should land you an interview.

Hopefully it works.

craigslist

monster

careerjet

also i hate to say it but you can almost always get a job packing out pallets at shoprite or any other huge supermarket chain at night

you will have benefits and money and turn into a vampire but be able to pay the bills

its hard work no one wants to do but thats why you will most likely be able to get it

have you ever heard of craigslist?

Craigslist

Networking

i've learned iOS development, then applied for a part time job, they said yes. i quit the part-time job when the first freelance-hiring request came in, and the jobs are searching for me since then. I'm awful at networking and sometimes i'm being a jackass towards clients and it's fine anyway.

so learning a skill which is in demand helped a lot, especially if you don't want to bend over backwards.

An agency is probably your best best. Sign up and see what comes in. In the UK there is a popular one called Reeds. No idea was the US equivalent is.

I'm on an industry specific mailing list that send through jobs to my email each day.