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Pros
- My path: apply on Indeed and LinkedIn until someone hired me
- Then leverage your friends and LinkedIn, a LOT. Here's my simple guide for finding freelance roles with LinkedIn.
- Also LinkedIn has been surprisingly good if you search for people who list themselves as "available for freelance" but aren't desperately posting about needing work every day.
- Apply to 10-20 jobs per day on... * LinkedIn
Cons
- LinkedIn's been hit or miss for me though, feels like everyone is trying to sell something there now
- There are so many trash sites out there, but some good ones I regularly visited besides LinkedIn were Real Work from Anywhere
- A lot of stuff posted on LinkedIn under Remote are crap jobs or ghost jobs or volunteering/internships, and the search results are muddied by Sponsored ads that make the engine an absolute ballache to use as it’s irrelevant stuff croppin...
- I'm not saying LinkedIn or Indeed are useless, but an overwhelming number of job posts on these platforms are pure bait.
- Microsoft owns LinkedIn. That's similarly free for the majority of users
Sentiment
4 positive (40%) · 4 mixed (40%) · 2 negative (20%)
Trust + time weighted score: +27% · raw score 20%
What redditors said (10 of 10)
My path: apply on Indeed and LinkedIn until someone hired me
LinkedIn's been hit or miss for me though, feels like everyone is trying to sell something there now
Then leverage your friends and LinkedIn, a LOT. Here's my simple guide for finding freelance roles with LinkedIn.
Also LinkedIn has been surprisingly good if you search for people who list themselves as "available for freelance" but aren't desperately posting about needing work every day.
There are so many trash sites out there, but some good ones I regularly visited besides LinkedIn were Real Work from Anywhere
A lot of stuff posted on LinkedIn under Remote are crap jobs or ghost jobs or volunteering/internships, and the search results are muddied by Sponsored ads that make the engine an absolute ballache to use as it’s irrelevant stuff cropping up every 3 or 4 positions.
I'm not saying LinkedIn or Indeed are useless, but an overwhelming number of job posts on these platforms are pure bait.
Apply to 10-20 jobs per day on... * LinkedIn
Microsoft owns LinkedIn. That's similarly free for the majority of users
LinkedIn may show 100+ people have applied to a job, but those numbers are greatly inflated by either people clicking apply and not finishing, or people not qualified and just spraying out applications.
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