blog.reddit -- what's new on reddit: Bring us your tired, your weak, your jobseekers!

Among many other things, the reddit community has proven itself to be a handy place to ask for job application advice, as well as one for providing tips and tricks of landing one.
Nearly a month ago, curious redditor /u/TheYarizard pondered to /r/AskReddit, “Reddit, Can we have a reddit job fair?”

What happened afterwards was a feat of pure brilliance, and we’re celebrating the replies and support that came from the responses. The post attracted some incredibly interesting people with fascinating professions. It was graced by the likes of speech-language pathologist, a medical librarian, a Chief Metallurgist and Heat Treat Manager, and lots of others. Thank you to all those who illustrated your diverse array of interesting workplaces.

Furthermore, we'd like to enthusiastically highlight the subreddit that this post birthed — /r/JobFair, where "you can post your job in an AMA style-format and answer questions regarding your job."
We've already had some super interesting job AMAs from beekeepers, locksmiths (could have used your help with that safe, man), butchers and body piercers. The community already has nearly 8k subscribers (and could easily surpass that mark once this blog post goes live), and it's is only 29 days old!

In addition to this amazing community effort, we're excited to pitch in our support as well.
Not only do we have current job openings (omg!) that we encourage you to apply for, we've also aggregated some lists of communities dedicated to providing help and resources on applying for jobs, as well as places to look for job openings in general and specific fields. Here is a handy subreddit multi for you to subscribe to and tailor to your particular interest, containing the following:

Getting Employed/Guidance:

Just Jobs:

Jobs for digital currencies:

Dev jobs:

Specific Fields:

We've also compiled a list of subreddits dedicated to location-based employment help. Find your area and subscribe!

Country-wide jobs:

Province-wide jobs:

Alberta Jobs

State-wide jobs:

City-wide jobs:

It's awesome and humbling that so many redditors feel so passionately about helping those who are going through the unpleasant and often frustrating experience of unemployment, and choosing the platform we provide to find solutions. We hope this you found this helpful, and so without further adieu, feel free post your own job-fair type AMAs, other communities dedicated to helping the unemployed, job openings that you currently know of, and as usual, your thoughts and discussion.

Friday, August 01, 2014

Bring us your tired, your weak, your jobseekers!