Word of advice to Brehs, especially ones new to the industry
Stay the fukk away from Dice
1. Youre gonna post your resume publicly and get a high stream of phone calls that are gonna gas you up and make you feel like you hot shyt in these streets
2. You're gonna realize a disproportionate amount of these calls are from indian recruiters who're masking their location to be random states in the US
3. Most of the position they contact you about will be irrelevant or non existent roles for low pay in some place 4000 miles away from where you actually are
3. Should you take the bait, Said recruiters will never follow up after the initial convo....Never. (Sending you shytty, carelessly sewn together word-salad wish lists void of useful details isnt following up)
5. Months after you've taken down your resume, you're still gonna be getting calls from indian firms who hot potatoed your resume to other companies and so on.
Dice is a barren wasteland, a resume graveyard of sorts,
Actual American-based talent acquisitions specialist dont really post jobs on there even though it looks like it. Most of these jobs are outdated as shyt but keep getting reposted so that the date is shown as most recent
I've seen the same 25 jobs hanging around for months at a time, but has a status of " posted 15 mins ago"
Just avoid this place altogether as its a waste of time.
Monster is shyt too,
Career Builder is a condemned crack-house, the Geocities or Angelfire of job boards. My only guess as to why they're still "operating" is that they dont want to give up the domain name.
Indeed is holding on by a thread, but still has some merit.
My advice...
this will take some time but here's what I do
go to glassdoor.com and search whatever IT postion you want and see which companies have those positions
next , go to the actual companies "career" section or job search engine and book mark.
It can be more exhaustive than simply using a search engine so that's why I recommend bookmarking at least 5-10 companies career pages a day until you have accumulated a fukk ton of them.
let's assume you do 5 a day; that's 35 companies in a week you can have in your make-shift database
1 month...That's 140 companies. rinse and repeat
It takes more work than using job board but, but a better chance of finding a job
). If I can work there for 10-15 years, I can then move on to a smaller company and retire nicely.
. I've heard the easiest route into amazon is contracting but they only seem to hire from indian firms.
