RESOURCES FOR YOUR JOURNEY

job boards, communities to find connection in, interview prep, and best practices

About this page

This page contains lists of resources from job boards, communities to join to grow your professional network, H1B Visa information, and tech interview prep resources. These are resources I’ve been sharing with clients for years, and it’s constantly evolving. If you feel a space I listed isn’t of value, doesn’t create a safe space for you, or you have recommendations for something of value, I’m all ears. Send me an email here.

I’ve also woven in some ideas on how to move through some of the areas and stats I see in the space.

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Job Boards

I encourage not relying only on LinkedIn for job searches. It’s expensive to post, companies with great brand recognition don’t need to use it, and I get nervous about algorithms and what comes up for each individual. Open up a web browser and try a search with your title, industry, location, whatever is important, and here are some good resources for you to check out as well!
PS: Please avoid easy apply (Go to the company site and apply there), and networking is always the best!

TECH

CLIMATE / GREEN

HIGHER EDUCATION

OUTDOOR

  • Basecamp - Outdoor Industry Corporate & Freelance Jobs - Great newsletter!

GENERAL / INDUSTRY AGNOSTIC

  • LinkedIn - Good for Connections & Finding Information About Companies

  • TopTal - Higher Level Roles Including Tech

  • ZipRecruiter - Old school, heard it’s useful recently

  • Just Remote - Touted as Hidden Remote Jobs

  • Remote.co - Remote & Hybrid Roles

  • Snaphunt - Global industry Agnostic Job Board

  • Indeed - Industry Agnostic Job Board

  • FlexJobs - Fully Remote & Hybrid Roles

  • Upwork - Freelance Work / Multiple Industries

  • International Work - 15 Best Job Boards for Up and Coming Ex-pats

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Communities to Join

Finding groups that match your industry, your background, and even what you look like can be a game changer. You’ll generally find strong allies and specific help, referrals, mentors, and more in these spaces.

Take a brave, bold step, and join them! Introduce yourself, ask for what you need, engage in conversations. It could open so many doors for you…and keep nurturing these connections and spaces. You never know when you’ll need more help again and be sure to pay it forward to others!

This is a general list, you can use Meetup & Eventbright, or a web search to find networking communities in your locations. Calagator is a great one in the Portland, OR Metro Area!

HUMANS IN TECH

  • Empathe<tech> - A community I’m part of with many software engineers in 14 different time zones spanning all experiences. Two career coaches give monthly open office hour time (me included!), engineers host technical interview office hours for interview prep, slack community, and shared resources. Must be kind and committed to DEI to join.

  • Believe in Serverless - Discord, inclusive space for content, webinars, events, and builders here to help inspire each other with real-world applications, production stories, and experience

  • Code & Coffee - Community-led meetups in 39 cities across 50,000+ devs AND you can join a discord channel with over 7K devs here. The ones in PDX seem to be well attended and liked lots.

  • Tech Slack Communities - Comprehensive list of tech slack groups in the US regions and stares, globally, and by technology and languages

WOMEN IN TECH

  • Leopard.fyi - Women’s community for networking, interview prep, and technical job opening

  • Power to Fly - Diversity & Inclusion Focused Remote Jobs & Networking

  • Latinas in Tech - Events, annual summit, local chapters

  • Women Back to Work - A great re-entry (post care taking, etc) program for technical talent. Weekly Power Hour, events

BLACKS IN TECH

  • Blacks in Tech Foundation - Local chapters, events, resources, and driven to lessen the divide of how wildly underrepresented black people are in tech. According to their site, only 3% of employees in the top 75 companies in Silicon Valley are black. Let’s fix this. Find community here if this is how you identify.

  • Blacks in Technology - Local chapters, podcasts, job boards, and events.

LATINOS IN TECH

ASIAN PACIFIC

  • APANO - unites Asians to build power, develop leaders, and advance equity through organizing, advocacy, community development and cultural work

VETERANS

  • Vets in Tech - Resources, mentorship, and more to help vets returning home to transition to civilian life

  • Hiring Our Heroes - Events, hiring, support for veterans to secure roles and thrive

  • Searching Vets in Tech or Veterans Job Support will give you move resources, often company specific

LBGTQ+ IN TECH

  • Out in Tech - Events, local chapters, active and large slack community, and lots of jobs

NEURODIVERGENT

  • Additude Magazine - ADHD science, resources, webinars, and strategies for parents, children, and adults.

WOMEN FOCUSED GROUPS

  • MKTG WMN - Supportive community of women spanning all areas of marketing. If you identify as part of this group, run, don’t walk, to join them. Great community, resources, networking, jobs

  • Chief - Largest network for executive women

GENERAL

  • Never Search Alone - Join a group of other job seekers to search together. Great way to build community and be less alone.

Career Success Tools

H1B Visa Links

Need to secure a role that will also sponsor a Visa in the United States, check out these links:

  • H1B Grader - provides grades for companies based on their past Immigration, wage, and Other Data

  • FrogHire.ai - helps international students land OPT, CPT, and H-1B

  • H1B Visa Sponsors Database - All you need to know about navigating the process and databases available

Other Resources

Need to secure a role that will also sponsor a Visa in the United States, check out these links:

  • Levels.fyi - A site that let’s you compare salaries on title and location

  • Team Blind - Anonymous community where professionals discuss careers, workplace dynamics, and more

Confidence in Speaking & Presenting

As a coach, working with professionals to grow, evolve, be relevant, and visible, I’m often asked things like: “How can I have a stronger voice in meetings and be heard?” or “How can I be a better presenter and be taken seriously?” or “How can I speak well when randomly called in so I can get to the point and not ramble?”

There is no shortcut to this. It takes time, repetition, and a commitment to wanting to evolve in this area.

I’m involved in a Toastmasters group. It is THE MOST supportive, safe place to not only learn to be a better speaker, but a better listener and leader. From practicing prepared and impromptu speaking to giving and receiving evaluations in a safe place where you will always leave energized and ready to continue to grow and evolve, you’ll also learn to be a better leader.

I have been with my chapter since summer of 2024, and I’m now the Vice President of Education for the Vancouver Club. You are welcome to pop in any Thursday @ 6:45AM PST (YES, it’s early!) to see what it’s like. It could be your baseline for a supportive, wonderful club at the very least as you can try out the many, many other clubs out there all over the states and the world.

Tech Resources

  • Empathe<tech> - A community I’m part of with many software engineers in 14 different time zones spanning all experiences. Two career coaches give monthly open office hour time (me included!), engineers host technical interview office hours for interview prep, slack community, and shared resources. Must be kind and committed to DEI to join

  • Team Blind - Everyone is anonymous, glean insight into company culture, interview insight, and more in this forum

These resources are to help you prepare for technical interviewing

  • Hello Interview - Link goes to a quick and dirty overview on how to approach Systems Design interviews, but it’s comprehensive of more, and has a paid version too.

  • LeetCode - Popular platform to prepare for technical interviews and a resource companies use for interviewing

  • HackerRank - Popular platform to prepare for technical interviews and a resource companies use for interviewing

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