Tutorial: how to get notified when companies are hiring for certain positions or roles
Just got level2 and now I can post and share my workflows 🎉 Last month I wrapped my time at a startup and started looking for opportunities. The best way is internal-referral for sure, but checking open positions in LinkedIn or company websites can help you apply more positions and get more onsite/remote interviews to strength your interview muscle 💪 The goal is to get email/slack/text notification when a certain company is hiring for a certain role or at certain location. This doesn't need to be real-time. Daily check is good enough, since there won't be so many new gigs posted every day😂 I will share my sample workflow in the end, but you almost have to customize it so please read on. Let's start from a simple case, you want to find out whether there is any new position for Amazon or AWS in Vancouver (yes, I live here 🇨🇦). You go to amazon.com and find their career site https://amazon.jobs/ Click the link for "Software Development" and landed https://amazon.jobs/content/en/job-categories/software-development I would suggest before working on the automation, do this manually a few times to make sure this worths the automation effort. Choose a few filters, such as Canada, BC, Vancouver, Full time, then you got 38. I am looking for manager roles, so I typed "Manager" in search bar and got a bit less. Sometime it's a single page, sometimes there can be multiple pages for the positions. But you don't have to automate the pagination or parse the DOM. If you have a little bit JavaScript background, you can try to figure out whether there is data feed behind the page. So open the JavaScript Console, go to Nextwork tab, filter by Fetch/XHR, reload the page, and guess which request contains the job list. Usually with 10KB or more response size. Then check the request details, is that GET or POST, what's the URL, what's the payload, and also whether by default the page size is 10, you probably can change it to 100 to get first 100 times without pagination.