which website gets most of the jobs other than jobserve?

[Contreras]

Christ, why not? It's a perfectly reasonable question!

Funny, my first post on CUK asked the very same question and I was slammed too.

So I uploaded my CV to quite a few sites and kept a record of where agents would say they found my details. Two clear winners well ahead of the others were jobsite and cv-library.

Just recently I uploaded my CV again, this time to 10 sites in total, all in the same evening, including the main ones mentioned in this thread. In this round I haven't been asking agents how they found me but of those that volunteered the info *all* have quoted cv-library as the source.

Number of cold calls doesn't necessarily translate to plausible leads though. cv-library is geared mainly for permiedom, you need to highlight 'contract only' in the profile and still be prepared for calls about permie roles. I've had some leads through LinkedIn although none made it to contract yet. Also don't dismiss simply uploading a PDF to your own webspace to be indexed by Google, with enough buzzwords it will get hits from agents / potential clients (I know mine does).

[BrilloPad]

For those in finance - e financial careers.

[edison]

Surely indeed.co.uk would be the best as it is just an aggregator of all the other sites mentioned and a load hat haven't been?

+1 although the search algorithm is a bit crap and results in a large amount of chaff, but if you are on the bench you should have plenty of time to sift through it.

Indeed is pretty good for aggregating the bigger job boards and direct adverts but I find its search results do miss out some good smaller/specialist agents and there is a lot of repetition.

It's a little bemusing to find that many of the main IT job boards have shockingly bad search functionality! But from my personal searches over the last few months, I'd say the best sites for contract roles in descending order are:

Jobserve (more than twice as many as any other site)
CWjobs
Technojobs
Reed
Totaljobs

LinkedIn is the best site for perm jobs but I personally haven't seen any contract roles on there.

[sal]

Surely indeed.co.uk would be the best as it is just an aggregator of all the other sites mentioned and a load hat haven't been?

+1 although the search algorithm is a bit crap and results in a large amount of chaff, but if you are on the bench you should have plenty of time to sift through it.

[NickNick]

Surely indeed.co.uk would be the best as it is just an aggregator of all the other sites mentioned and a load hat haven't been?

[BolshieBastard]

I always found I got most contact from agents via jobsite although the search function isnt \ wasnt as good as jobswerve.

Despite having nearly 200 LI contacts and attempting to help others find roles, only 1 person in all the 5 years I used LI actually tried to help find me work.

Id say you best bet is to use all routes ie jobswerve, facebook, twitter etc and phone the agents.

[kevpuk]

Jobserve, CWJobs and Technojobs have all been sources for me

[saptastic]

Hi

I normally use jobserve and cwjobs for finding contracts.

I can see less contracts on jobserve now days and wondering which other sites do agents use.


thanks in advance

Jobserve seems to be lesser what it was but still has a good alert system. Also worth using Technojobs as they have a good bulk of agencies on their site.

[Eirikur]

I find it hard to actually search for contracts on LinkedIn, the only way it helps me is agents contacting me through LinkedIn. This can be encouraged by saying your available for new contracts (make sure your messages are being broadcasted) this always results in a number of agencies calling me and has led to an offer in one or two cases.

[TheFaQQer]

Individual networking is how I've found my last three years of work.

Current one was aided by saying on LinkedIn the I was looking for work.

[kaiser78]

Christ, why not? It's a perfectly reasonable question!

As it happens, I don't know the answer, as I've not looked for a gig in some time, but back when I was still looking, Jobserve and LinkedIn would be my main port of call.

More and more, I'd be hitting LinkedIn these days. Also - and I know this is strange - Twitter.

Theitjobboard is also a useful site.

Re. linkedin, and I read this a lot about how people manage to get contracts through this, but how exactly is this being done ? I have an established profile but cannot see how I can find a role through this - I know I am missing something obvious here, can someone please explain (and also feel free to call me a dumb t*rd as well if needs be...)

[Eirikur]

jobsite.co.uk

[GillsMan]

Dude, no one's gonna spoon feed it to you FFS!

Christ, why not? It's a perfectly reasonable question!

As it happens, I don't know the answer, as I've not looked for a gig in some time, but back when I was still looking, Jobserve and LinkedIn would be my main port of call.

More and more, I'd be hitting LinkedIn these days. Also - and I know this is strange - Twitter.

[PurpleGorilla]

Dude, no one's gonna spoon feed it to you FFS!

[junior contractor]

Hi

I normally use jobserve and cwjobs for finding contracts.

I can see less contracts on jobserve now days and wondering which other sites do agents use.


thanks in advance