"Back in the day" I crawled Craigslist to get the urls for every location served in north America. Craigslist allowed you to create an rss feed from a search, so I scripted rss links to every location's jobs section with the search "freelance telecommute lamp developer".
Looking through that every day, got many contract jobs and 2 full time 10+ year "careers".
Low tech, but when it got to the sales calls was able to push the "creative problem solver" and "time/cost aware" angles, in addition to my tech resume. There was literally hardly any competition in many of these markets, because everyone else was on monster or whatever. Ymmv
love this. going where others aren't looking is the key
actually working on something similar - tracking fresh funding rounds and then scraping those companies' career pages. they hire fast after raising, I'm sure.
tricky part is identifying which ones actually use PHP without burning time on every startup. your CL+RSS approach was way cleaner
might just add craigslist to the scrapers, bet there's still gold there
Technical solution to a non-technical problem, my man.
More effective to do whatever you can to jump ahead of the application horde. Literally have to fall back to ordinary sales & marketing techniques almost.
"Back in the day" I crawled Craigslist to get the urls for every location served in north America. Craigslist allowed you to create an rss feed from a search, so I scripted rss links to every location's jobs section with the search "freelance telecommute lamp developer".
Looking through that every day, got many contract jobs and 2 full time 10+ year "careers".
Low tech, but when it got to the sales calls was able to push the "creative problem solver" and "time/cost aware" angles, in addition to my tech resume. There was literally hardly any competition in many of these markets, because everyone else was on monster or whatever. Ymmv
love this. going where others aren't looking is the key
actually working on something similar - tracking fresh funding rounds and then scraping those companies' career pages. they hire fast after raising, I'm sure.
tricky part is identifying which ones actually use PHP without burning time on every startup. your CL+RSS approach was way cleaner
might just add craigslist to the scrapers, bet there's still gold there
Technical solution to a non-technical problem, my man.
More effective to do whatever you can to jump ahead of the application horde. Literally have to fall back to ordinary sales & marketing techniques almost.
fair point. though my rule is: if you're doing something manually more than twice, automate it
now i can spend more time on the actual networking instead of clicking through the same sites every morning