This engineer was looking for a second remote job and after spending money on LinkedIn Premium, he came up with a free and more effective method.
Finding a job requires patience, updating your CV and then it’s not a bad idea to have a good app for job searching . I’m sure that when you think about this category, a few come to mind (as a curiosity, if you’re into civil service, there’s even one for the Public Administration ) but few people think of trying Google Maps . Well, watch out because there are those who have developed a technique for finding work on Google Maps that works .
Google Maps is useful for many things. Now it’s also useful for finding a job
Background . The person in question is a software engineer (who goes by the alias Gloofa08 on Reddit , where he has told his story) who lives in the United States. He wasn’t unemployed, in fact he had been a junior engineer at his company for three years, so he enjoys a certain stability. What he was looking for was a second job that he could do remotely, something that is relatively common in his sector.
This process of looking for another job took him seven months and like most mortals, he started on LinkedIn, even paying for Premium. There was no luck, as he himself tells:
After 5 months I discovered that this strategy was not effective, at least for me. While I did get a few interviews, none of them turned into job offers. This left me stuck and I felt like I had to change my approach if I wanted to get different results.
Then he thought of trying Google Maps. He used the popular default GPS navigator on Android to locate recruitment agencies. But it didn’t stop at a simple search, the process is much more active . We can see it better with the example he proposes: if you are looking for a job in the United Kingdom, zoom in on the United Kingdom in Google Maps and search for ‘recruitment’. A list of companies will appear. Now you just have to go to their website and leave your CV.
She explains that she first started sending her CV to these companies one by one. During this search she ended up accumulating a lot of valuable information: ‘ If you are looking for remote positions, the list I compiled is a game-changer . It contains over 450 recruiting companies across Europe , categorised by country, and it took me two days to prepare it .’ And she has also shared it.
But if instead of looking for remote work you want a job in a local area , he explains that ‘ you can replicate this process by searching for companies in your own region using Google Maps and sending your CV in bulk (by email) ‘. A large part of these emails may not reach the right people, but if you send them in bulk, you will surely get through to someone and get the answer you are looking for.
