Searching for Linux Jobs
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- Category: Career Resources
- Published on Monday, 04 July 2011 19:04
While looking for a new IT or Linux job is often viewed as a daunting task, it’s a good time to be in the market for an IT job or to look for a special role that could advance your Linux career. With unemployment at a low and the market picking up and showing stability after the recession brought by the Global Financial Crisis, there are many and varied opportunities for finding new jobs that suit your needs.
When embarking on an IT job search, you’ll first need to update your resume to ensure that it reflects your capabilities and work experience in an attractive way. Your resume is your first point of contact with a recruiter or perspective employer, and it’s important that it represents you in such a way that the reader is intrigued and wants to find out more. Please see our guidelines on making your resume stand out in a crowd.
IT professionals seeking Linux careers should register as a job seeker online with LinuxCareer. Since we are a niche recruitment portal, we can put Linux and open source specialists in touch with prospective employers seeking Linux skills. Registering with us enables you take advantage of the following specialised recruitment services.
- post your resume online. with LinuxCareer. Let your resume work for you. We have a large base of registered employers seeking people like you with solid Linux and open systems experience. Posting your resume enables employers to find you directly by searching through your and other registered job seekers’ resumes for the specific skills they are seeking.
- search for jobs: Registered users of LinuxCareer can use our job search facility to search for Linux jobs by role, technology, location, or salary range.
- receive job alerts from LinuxCareers. Simply provide us with details of the types of jobs you’re interested in and we will keep you posted via email on newly listed jobs that fit your criteria as soon as those jobs are posted.
To cast your net wider, search the internet for job listings. Recommended sites for IT jobs include SEEK, CareerOne and MyCareer. These sites let you search through literally thousands of jobs by industry, location and salary range. You can also upload your resume to these sites and set up job alerts, so that you can be emailed jobs that match your criteria as they are listed.
More and more employers are seeking intelligence about prospective employees using social media. One of the biggest online professional networking sites is LinkedIn. Ensure your LinkedIn page is up to date and appealing. The same rules apply for your LinkedIn presence as for your resume. Also, take advantage of signing into LinuxCareer with your Linkedin or Facebook account.
Stay up to date and connected through Linux online forums and publications like LinuxLinks.com. Jobs are sometimes advertised through these and it can also be a way to promote your current work. Some organisations seek to head hunt talent by scouting through these sites.
Finally, utilise your personal network. Research shows that this is an effective way of finding a job. You can ask your close colleagues, family and friends to keep their ears to the ground at their places of work in order to identify upcoming openings that may fit your skills set. They might be in a position to refer you for positions and receive benefits if it ends in a hire for their company.