Please suggest privacy friendly ways to Job hunt (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 weeks ago by koulib@sh.itjust.works to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I am looking for new jobs as a Cloud Engineer. Being privacy conscious makes the job hunt relatively hard. I don't use LinkedIn. But most companies publish their openings on websites like this and almost all of them are a privacy nightmare.

As soon as you make an account on them, you are bombarded with thousands of emails and targeted ads. But if I made a temporary email for this purpose, I feel I might get blacklisted.

Honestly I feel kind of sad about today's corporate field.

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[-] EngineerGaming@feddit.nl 1 points 2 weeks ago

I understand that my details would have to be sent to the company - however, I would really like to avoid posting them publicly. I have an argument for this - I know a lot of hacks begin with using Linkedin to find employees.

this post was submitted on 11 Jan 2025

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