• Sweden
• Tech
• 7 YoE, Senior level

What I did last time was to write down every company I could see myself working for here in town, and checked their career pages/contacts I knew at the company for openings. Then I browsed LinkedIn to figure out any other potential opportunities.

Finally, I applied to 10 companies simultaneously. I got rejected by one, rejected a few before coming to the offer stage (the remaining didn’t complete their processes in time), and landed five offers that I tried my best negotiating against each other before signing one.

Sweden.

IT / Finance sector

Early to mid stage in my career

I got laid off in January, and have signed a new job starting in a few weeks, I found if through LinkedIn

How do you find anything useful on LinkedIn? (Serious question) Filtering on location with few of and/NOT search terms doesn’t yield many results. Their suggested jobs are irrelevant crap riddled with 95% repeating promoted crap that you can dismiss but your dismiss gets ignored.

I use indeed and it’s been steadily getting to the same point as LinkedIn where they repeat promoted shit, ignore filters you setup and just straight up serve useless garbage irrelevant to search terms.

Tried monster and zip recruiter couple of times, it was never better than any of the above so I didn’t bother continuing to try.

I got my current job at a German university as a programmer through some shady site that scrapes job listings. It still had a link to an outdated PDF looking for programmers. The person listed as a contact didn’t work there anymore. And at least that position had already been filled.

But when I applied my application was forwarded to the correct person and they were about to post a new opening. It was a perfect fit.

Luckily for me, because the only other job available in that area was at a shady data collection firm that I definitely didn’t want to work at.