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General

• job tips for geeks

• Questions to ask your future web dev employer - largely based on a list of questions Joel Spolsky came up with, but recontextualized for web development.

• Ask HN: 16-hour work week jobs?

Areas

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_industries
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_services

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_design
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_administrator
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sysop
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_operations
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DevOps
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test_engineer

CV

Guides

• Why won’t anyone talk to me? What recruiters look for in a resume

• Redditors who work in Human Resources, what red flags on a resume or cover letter will prevent a candidate from getting a call back? -serious-

Examples

• http://www.kent.ac.uk/careers/cv/cvexamples.htm

• http://www.prospects.ac.uk/example_cvs.htm

• http://jobsearch.about.com/od/cvsamples/a/blsamplecv.htm

• http://www.mcw.edu/Medical-School/Student-Affairs/Residency-Match-Process/Curriculum-Vitae-Samples.htm

Services

• Resumonk - CV creation service
• CVsIntellect Resume Specialist is a free online resume builder that helps you create jaw-dropping, killer resumes that never fail to impress, within minutes.

• resume.io - Crazy-simple online resumes.

Systems

• http://jsonresume.org/ [1]

• https://mszep.github.io/pandoc_resume/ [2]

Content

• Creative Market is a platform for handcrafted, mousemade design content

• ThemeForest - Site Templates and Themes

Job seeking

• https://www.gov.uk/jobsearch

• https://www.myjobscotland.gov.uk myjobscotland.gov.uk] - Scottish local government jobs

• Indeed.co.uk -- good aggergator

• http://www.s1jobs.com/
• http://www.1job.co.uk/

• http://www.nettalent.co.uk/
• http://www.cwjobs.co.uk/
• https://jobs.github.com/
• http://hackerjobs.co.uk/
• http://www.authenticjobs.com/

• http://www.scotcareers.co.uk/

• http://www.edinburghfestivaljobs.com/
• http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/human-resources/jobs
• http://www.ed-coll.ac.uk/vacancies/vacancies.aspx

• http://www.charityjob.co.uk/
• http://www.goodmoves.org.uk/

• Test Ninjas - Freelance Software Testers - A Community of Freelancers Who Love To Test

• http://www.headresourcing.com/job-search
• http://www.maxwellbruce.com/

• http://www.mixcloud.com/jobs

• http://www.albavolunteers.com/

• http://availability.is/ [3]

• Stack Overflow Careers 2.0 UK

• Technojobs - specialist IT and Technical jobsite.

• The IT Job Board

• Finding IT Jobs UK

Gumtree

• http://www.gumtree.com/telecoms-computer-services/edinburgh
• http://www.gumtree.com/tuition-lessons/edinburgh
• http://www.gumtree.com/computing-it-jobs/edinburgh
• http://www.gumtree.com/marketing-jobs/edinburgh
• http://www.gumtree.com/media-design-creative-jobs/edinburgh
• http://www.gumtree.com/volunteer-charity-work-jobs/edinburgh

• http://www.gumtree.com/work-wanted/edinburgh
• http://www.gumtree.com/gumtree-fun/edinburgh

Freelance

• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8063309

• oDesk is the world's largest and fastest-growing online workplace, ranked #1 by annual contractor earnings.

• Freelancer.com is the world's largest outsourcing marketplace
  • http://www.freelancer.com/jobs/Drupal/
  • http://www.freelancer.com/jobs/Wordpress/

• Elance
  • https://www.elance.com/s/wordcrofting/?rid=32FMG - Dani

• FreelanceSwitch - costs to reply

• Rent a coder

• XING
  • Search results for: edinburgh

• PeoplePerHour

• Freelancers Outpost

• REMOJōBO! - The remote job board for web nerds
• fossjobs.net
• btcworkers - bitcoin freelancing

• http://www.reddit.com/r/forhire

• Working with Talent markets – oDesk, Elance, Freelancer, Guru, vWorker [4]

Small task

• Mechanical Turk
  • https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8005744

• http://crowdflower.com/channel/contributor/
• http://crowdresearch.org/blog/?p=5177 [5]

Career

• http://blog.martincmartin.com/2010/01/07/finding-a-job-youll-love-the-reverse-phone-screen/

• On Being a Junior Developer
• https://medium.com/this-happened-to-me/8f381aa6bd5e

• http://newlifenetwork.co.uk/

• http://blog.upstart.com/2013/05/how-to-negotiate-job-offer.html

• http://blog.galler.io/startup-dialog

• http://www.employabilityinscotland.com/

• http://modelviewculture.com/pieces/the-myth-of-the-non-technical-startup-employee
• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7398968

• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7995728

Companies

• http://www.lbi.com/uk/jobs/
• http://whitespacers.com/
• http://www.zenelements.com/