Not sure if off-topic, but what’s the best way to go about finding coding gigs at the moment? Need some urgent funds so need to reach out to people somehow.
I think of linkedin as a facebook for businesses leading you open to being spammed by agencies, which I don’t really want.
Though I have years of experience of coding across many languages and fields (audio, computer vision, e-commerce backends, etc), and github accounts over the years with some pushes to the core of a few major projects, I haven’t really kept the accounts, and past projects have nearly always been back-ends for clients so can’t exactly add them to a portfolio.
Languages I’m currently using would be python / php (including symfony and laravel), though happy to switch to javascript/html coding, some c/c++ etc, so I’m not tied to one area I guess.
Is there a decent place to advertise or, is there a better way lately? Thanks
If you figure out the answer let me know. 10+ years of experience and haven’t been able to find a job in the last 2 years.
Mainly looking for:
The only thing I’m seeing in abundance is C#/dot net. And everything advertised with PHP smells like WordPress.
Funny, I’m in a similar but reversed situation. 10+ years of experience, no job for two years, but my stack is C# and .Net and I keep seeing an abundance of ads looking for Node and React 🤔
Where’s the tin foil hat emoji when you need one?
But actually I might have been confusing what I’m seeing on job boards with what all the recruiters are telling me or it’s a stale vibe from several months ago. Took another look at LinkedIn, indeed, dice and it seems relatively balanced if not listing more jobs with my stack like you said.
Doesn’t change the fact that I’m not getting any interactions from these postings though. I finally got one response on indeed last week but after answering their questions and they said I was a strong candidate they directed me to a one way AI video interview site… 3 years ago I had recruiters banging down my door trying to get me into interviews left and right. Trying not to rant but long story short it’s not looking good for tech.
I see a lot of posts for typescript, but every job also says 100+ applicants. Job market is not looking good
Plus all these places want people to go into the office just-because
Most of them are spam or people testing their luck even though they’re underqualified since applying to jobs is usually just a click nowadays. Don’t worry too much about it.
Hard to not worry about it when after 2 years of applying to 2-4 every other day you get no responses. Like surely you’d think a resume with 10 years of experience would at least warrant a phone screen. I have several theories but I’m probably just another “armchair expert”
Man, it’s so frustrating being in that boat and also seeing people complain about hiring frauds who don’t know how to code etc etc
like there’s so many qualified coders on the market right now, just call me back lol