Best place to advertise techie roles?

[Stupeo]

Where is the best place to advertise techie (dev/engineering) positions nowadays?

I presumed LinkedIn, but we've had a role up for a couple of weeks with only 2 applicants (neither can currently work in the UK). I think our advert and salary is sound, so wondering what else to try? Also tried Hacker News etc.

Which is the goto job board, CWJobs?!

[fat80b]

Stupeo said:

Where is the best place to advertise techie (dev/engineering) positions nowadays?

I presumed LinkedIn, but we've had a role up for a couple of weeks with only 2 applicants (neither can currently work in the UK). I think our advert and salary is sound, so wondering what else to try? Also tried Hacker News etc.

Which is the goto job board, CWJobs?!

I would say LI is the best, some people say glassdoor is worth it as well but I'm not so sure.

At the moment I would have thought nearly everyone in a job is probably thinking that the best option would be to stay way they are rather than take the risk of moving to a new role do I could well imagine that applications are down across the board.

In terms of the role itself - it is very much location dependent - Here in Cambridge, the market has been really tough for hiring Software Engineers with the big companies in town offering a lot to the best candidates.

You need to have a decent recruitment marketing strategy and offer something a bit different to attract people to you.

Feel free to PM me the job spec link and salary range and I'll take a look at it for you if you like.

[petrolbloke]

From my perspective (candidate) I think LinkedIn used to be good but is now littered with copy/pasted ads from recruiters which are often very light on important information.

Not sure about Glassdoor, I haven't really looked on there much.

Can you or a colleague get LinkedIn premium and have the time to contact potential candidates directly? If not could you use a recruitment agent?

[DanL]

Has jobserve fallen out of favour? Used to be my go to when looking for a job, but that was a few years ago!

[grumbledoak]

Have you looked on https://hired.com/ ?

[dibblecorse]

Dev's, engineers, devops, SRE's etc are not applying for roles, they don't need to, they are getting hammered with opportunities by both agencies and internal recruitment teams, you'll need to be far more pro active, also monitor TechCrunch etc and see who are laying off staff.

[spikeyhead]

DanL said:

Has jobserve fallen out of favour? Used to be my go to when looking for a job, but that was a few years ago!

It used to be my favourite too, btu I haven't been looking for a job in ten years

dibblecorse said:

Dev's, engineers, devops, SRE's etc are not applying for roles, they don't need to, they are getting hammered with opportunities by both agencies and internal recruitment teams, you'll need to be far more pro active, also monitor TechCrunch etc and see who are laying off staff.

I'm still getting offers of a few jobs every day, so there are a lot of people out there that are desperate to recruit, and who's going to want to change jobs at the moment?

[vaud]

The Register has a jobs section now.

[acd80]

Stupeo said:

with only 2 applicants (neither can currently work in the UK). I think our advert and salary is sound

Not trolling but with only 2 non-UK applicants, it would indicated that either the advert is not sound or more than likely, the salary isn't.

Have you had it reviewed by someone outside of your Org? As previously mentioned, it is a dev's market at the moment. I work in Cyber (not devsecops) but from what I've seen, the job market for both contract and permie is very healthy given the ongoing Covid-19 situation.

Try Jobserve and Indeed as well if you haven't already. LI jobs is very hit and miss I've found.

[CourtAgain]

petrolbloke said:

From my perspective (candidate) I think LinkedIn used to be good but is now littered with copy/pasted ads from recruiters which are often very light on important information.

Not sure about Glassdoor, I haven't really looked on there much.

Can you or a colleague get LinkedIn premium and have the time to contact potential candidates directly? If not could you use a recruitment agent?

Glassdoor seems to be more of a whinge about ex employer review site, on who to avoid if you are looking for work. CV Library has been useful for me, I think JobServe isn't that great anymore for tech jobs. LinkedIn is worth a look as well

[vaud]

acd80 said:

LI jobs is very hit and miss I've found.

We find LI works well IF where candidates have their skills and experience up to date.

Ditto for where I look at other roles - I get served up some very relevant jobs.

[essayer]

Stackoverflow - unlikely to be blocked at work for most devs - subtle adverts appear in page

[vaud]

essayer said:

Stackoverflow - unlikely to be blocked at work for most devs - subtle adverts appear in page

Signs that you should change job - when your employer blocks job web sites.

[hyphen]

acd80 said:

Try Jobserve and Indeed as well if you haven't already.

Jobserve is tried and trusted for IT, Indeed seems to be growing into the dominant general recruitment site.

[essayer]

vaud said:

Signs that you should change job - when your employer blocks job web sites.

Social media like LinkedIn will definitely be blocked at lots of firms. Personally, I wouldn’t browse Jobsite etc on a work PC.

[vaud]

essayer said:

Social media like LinkedIn will definitely be blocked at lots of firms. Personally, I wouldn’t browse Jobsite etc on a work PC.

Not blocked for us, social selling and positioning is encouraged, with guidelines (b2b)

Only pron, file sharing, gambling etc are blocked for us (global company) though usage is lightly monitored.

[Scabutz]

Jobserve for years for me. My last job though came from LinkedIn, it seemed to only be advertised on there and not on the other boards.

Mostly though a job is usually on all the boards. Tech jobs quite often are via recruiters and they just post to all the boards to cover bases.

[Stupeo]

Thanks all, posted it to CWJobs so hopefully it will be live tomorrow. Might do JobServe aswell next week.