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# Job boards & recruiters


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## Job boards

There are many, many places to find jobs posted on the internet. Often, dozens of people are also applying and the jobs are no longer live.

Here are :tada: Jack's three favourites :tada:

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### [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/)

LinkedIn is to work what Facebook is to friendship. And their tool for finding jobs is pretty good.

- Pros: Used by a lot of employers, great filtering, inuitive functionality, you may be approached directly
- Cons: Used by a lot of job seekers, jobs often no longer live, kind of chaotic

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### [Otta](https://app.otta.com/jobs/)
A dedicated job board that matches you with jobs based on your interests and experience - sort of like Tinder in that you get 40 jobs a day(?) and either add them to your shortlist or bin them.

- Pros: cool to see your % match, valuable insights from their team, 'confirmed still live', built-in jobs kanban
- Cons: I haven't got a job using it (yet)

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### [AngelList](https://angel.co/jobs)
The go-to for start-ups. It still feels very grass roots, even though it is well-established in the tech community. Most likely place to find a co-founder, or be approached by a CTO.

- Pros: an open space for less formal discussions, lots of variety given much earlier stage companies (often <10 people)
- Cons: not particularly structured, talking to start ups is always risky

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## Recruiters

- In the past, FAC has strongly discouraged working with recruiters as it undermines our ability to support ourselves financially
- You may be hearing from recruiters
- If it sounds interesting, have a conversation to learn what's out there
- Don't take them too seriously, be cautious about their incentives
- They can be really valuable

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## Side note

This is a numbers game, and we'll be using our time next week to develop a strategy to approach employment so that it is systematic, high-volume and effective.

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## Today's activity

- Spend 15 minutes researching other job board options. If you like the look of any, add them to the list

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- Spend 10 minutes discussing as a team any parameters of your first job - the values, company size, sector, role you're interested in

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- Spend 30 minutes finding at least 5 jobs for anyone in your team but yourself. Try and keep these even so that at the end everyone has 5 jobs they can apply to

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- In the last 5 minutes, we'll hear from each team how it went

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### What next?

I would encourage you to apply to all five jobs in your own time.
**You probably won't get the job, so don't spend more than an hour on this**.
It is important to start not caring about rejection.
(If you do hear back, that's awesome)

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## Job's a good un


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## Resources

- [24 best job boards](https://careersidekick.com/best-tech-job-boards/)