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Discussion on: Would you pay someone to find a job you love?

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George

In short terms no. When I'm looking for work I like to do my own research and base the conclusion of if i should go for it or not on the information I find. I'm a very nit picky person and there is some places I have worked in that were and absoloute nightmare and would never want to go back. One time I found myself working for a former boss again, not knowing that the original company I worked for owned this company also.

I find that job searching tools are very useful. Lets take linkedin for example it allows great flexability with your skills, previous/current work or volunteering employment, then provides a pretty decent amount of filters to assist you in finding a job you could like.

I've always found that personal research would be a lot better in the longrun.

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DrBearhands

Ouch, must have been a painful discovery.

But what about paying for tools then?

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George

I'm more than happy to pay for tools if they're going to boost productivity, assist in finding work or just generally help out. A lot of the tools I currently use I have either heavy discounts or for free because being a student has its great perks.

In the case you've mentioned here a tool for finding work I do pay for Linkedin premium as it certainly has its perks. I find that I'll end up paying it with a couple of aspects taken into consideration.

Either some form of free trial and free version that can be used to get a good overview, feel and basis of the tool. Then looking at the perks, the perks for a paid version shouldn't make it overly powered, nor should any of the free version(s) be rendered null because all of the stuff needed is in a paid version.