Are you looking for a new job, or ways to build your portfolio and get paid? In this post, you will discover popular websites that will help you get a job, along with some clever ones that you may have overlooked.
Marketplaces
1. 99designs
With over $67 million paid to its community of over 275,000 designers, 99designs is one of the world’s largest marketplace for any type of designs. Whether you are just starting out as a designer or have years of experience, 99designs will help you find work that suits your needs.
2. SmartShoot
SmartShoot is a marketplace that connects customers with local filmmakers and photographers. Their clients range from startups and small businesses to big brands such as Yelp, Google, and YouTube. Whether you’re a wedding photographer or video animator, you will find jobs that match your particular photo or video skill set.
3. Upwork
From website development to content writing to graphic design, upwork is one of the largest marketplaces on the web with a wide range of available jobs. On the website, upwork touts the fact that someone gets hired every 60 seconds. Over 3,000 jobs are posted on a daily basis.
4. AngelList
While most techies know AngelList as a marketplace for startups to meet investors, it’s also become a great place to land a job at a startup. On the site, you will find a variety of jobs listed by some of the hottest startups. You also have access to how much money each startup has raised along with the last round that it raised.
Job Boards
5. Monster
Monster pioneered the business of online jobs in 1994 and still remains one of the top places for job seekers to find work. While the website may need a new look, it’s hard to argue the traffic that Monster generates along with the number of job postings.
6. CareerBuilder
More than 24 million unique visitors a month visit CareerBuilder to find new jobs and obtain career advice. CareerBuilder works with employers around the world, including 92% of the Fortune 100. Along with Monster, CareerBuilder is one of the most visited job board sites.
7. Craigslist
While the website design still looks like the year it started (1995), Craigslist is the best website for local classifieds and forums. More than 60 million people in the US use Craigslist each month. On Craigslist, you will find various jobs, ranging from professional to odd.
8. LinkedIn
LinkedIn is the world’s largest professional network with 259 million members in over 200 countries and territories around the globe. In July 2011, LinkedIn launched a new feature, allowing companies to include an “Apply with LinkedIn” button on job listing pages. The new plugin lets potential employees apply for positions, using their LinkedIn profiles as resumes.
Get a Job by Learning How to Code
9. Treehouse
At Treehouse, you have access to video tutorials to learn how to build websites and apps, write code or start a business. Starting at $25 a month, you get access to over 1,000 videos along with the ability to practice live with Treehouse’s Code Challenge Engine. What I love most is that after each course, you have to complete a quiz to make sure you fully comprehend the lesson.
10. Codecademy
At Codecademy you can learn how to code Javascript, HTML/CSS, PHP, Ruby, and APIs for free. It’s interactive tool allows you to learn to code while building a real project.
One of the site’s success stories includes a Liz Beigle-Bryant who learned how to code at the age of 55. After being laid off from her $15 an hour job, she decided to reinvent her career and now has a job as a SharePoint Content Editor.
11. General Assembly
If online courses intimidate you, then General Assembly maybe the perfect platform for you. They provide in-person courses from experts in the field of business, marketing, mobile apps, web development, and more. Classes can range from a couple of sessions to a couple of months. They have 17 locations for in-person classes.
Recently, General Assembly launched online courses where you can pay per course or $25 a month to access all the courses.
12. The Starter League
The Starter League is a small school in Chicago that teaches Rails, Ruby, HTML/CSS, and User Experience Design. The classes are intensive, three months long, one to three days a week, and taught in person. If you looking to start new careers, launch a new product, or build a company while getting a classroom type environment, then The Starter League is a website worth checking out.
Clever Ways to Land a Job
13. Udemy
At Udemy, you have access to over 8,000 courses to build your skills. However, you can also monetize the skills you already have. On Udemy, the average instructor earns $7,000 a year per course and 90% of instructors make sales. Udemy provides you with an easy-to-use online teaching platform and its platform brings customers to you.
14. Meetup
Meetup is the world’s largest network of local groups. More than 9,000 groups get together in local communities each day, each one with the goal of improving themselves or their communities. You can use Meetup to meet other locals and find clients that may need your services.
15. Dribbble
Dribbble is a community of designers who share small screenshots that show their work, process, and current projects. Dribbble is a place to show and tell, promote, discover, and explore design. On Dribbble, you can find jobs for designers or have people hire you through your Dribbble profile.
16. Podcasting on iTunes
If you are looking to build a platform or grow your personal brand, there’s no better way than to start a podcast. I started a podcast called Mobile App Chat because I wanted to grow my app business by interviewing and learning from the experts. During this process, I managed to land a few consulting clients and a couple of them were past guests on the podcast.
