2 job hunting tactics you must try

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🔗 Quick links: Filtering for jobs on LinkedIn | Using boolean search on Google

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When I was a student searching for internships, the most painful part wasn’t applying, or seeing the rejection email:

It was finding opportunities in the first place.

It’s like going to one of those really good Chinese spots in town with the “warning” sign from health inspection and the kid doing homework in the corner.

You get handed their menu and it’s a 6-page brochure with a gazillion options.

You don’t know what to pick, there’s too many choices.

I ran into the same headache with job hunting.

Too many job boards, too many fake postings, and not enough quality.

Well, if I had to go back and redo it, I would use just 2 tactics to save hours of my time.

Ever applied to a job that was posted 2 weeks ago, only to find out they already hired someone and forgot to take it down?

This is a common issue with job boards.

Speed is the key to cold applying.

On most boards, the earliest you can filter are job posted within 24 hours.

But on LinkedIn, there’s a hack you can do to filter for jobs within the past 1 hour.

Here’s how:

You should see something like this:

Now, to find jobs posted within the past hour, do this:

And there you go! Now you have a list of jobs posted an hour ago.

Here’s how it works.

That 86400 represents seconds.

86400 seconds = 24 hours.

Thus, 3600 seconds = 1 hour.

You can look for jobs posted 2 or 3 hours ago too, just change the value.

The next method involves using 2 platforms:

Greenhouse is a tool for companies to post jobs on their internal sites, but we can use it to our benefit.

It’s because Greenhouse jobs tend to not be publicly posted.

AKA = less competition.

Here’s how we use Google to find these hidden jobs.

For example → site:boards.greenhouse.io (“product” AND “remote”)

Here, I’m searching for job title’s that contain product and are remote based.

This is what I get:

Let’s click on that first link:

There we go!

Now I have a personalized google list of jobs that most likely aren’t publicly posted.

This isn’t limited to just greenhouse either.

Just replace “boards.greenhouse.io” with other sites.

Here’s a quick list:

jobs.lever.co
jobs.smartrecruiters.com
wd1.myworkdayjobs.com
jobs.bamboohr.com
jobs.jobvite.com
careers.icims.com
apply.jazz.co
careers.workable.com

For tactic #1, I would browse LinkedIn’s job board daily.

If I get no results, I’ll try 2, 3, 5, 10, then 24 hours.

I’d spend 30 minutes to 1 hour doing this.

For tactic #2, I would pick 3 of my favourite sites from the list and use boolean search.

I wouldn’t look past 3 pages for each search.

I’d spend 30 minutes to 1 hour of this as well.

That’s 1 - 2 hours of efficient searching per day that gets you high-quality jobs to apply to.

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-Michael Ly

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🔗 Here’s the LinkedIn post where I learned about the 1 hour hack. [Read post]

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