Web Developer Jobs

Many sites have job boards: Dribbble, Stack Overflow, United Pixel Workers, Behance.

Craigslist works pretty good, as does Authentic Jobs and Indeed.

There are lots of freelance boards, some free, most not. Buyer beware is my advice with those.

Jobs.Wordpress.Net is a sort of Job board for WordPress jobs (not affiliated with WordPress that I can tell).

You can also upload your resume to recruiting sites such as Dice, CyberCoders, (I'm sure there are dozens I'm leaving out). If your city has a co-working space (Hacker Lab is a local one for me here in Sacramento), they might have a job board as well.

Gather as many listings as you think you qualify for, even if you don't have every single thing on the list. Pare down those each day/week, and apply for the ones you would enjoy best/ think you'd like. Eventually people will get back to you, even if it takes a long time (It usually does). Keep at it until something happens!

That sounds like awesome advice! I'm starting to gather my interview materials and put the final touches on my personal site so I'm hoping that really helps me when interview time comes.

Thanks alot John Locke btw your name is AWESOME!!!!

Good idea, George Offley , keep building things that you can show people. That's more important than anything. Are you a LOST fan, or a student of philosophy?

Both, that's why your name is so aweosme!!

Thanks, sir.

George : Great question. I'd like to start researching the same thing down the line myself. I know indeed.com is supposed to be good for tech-type jobs, and I've also been a fan of flexjobs.com (which seeks out remote/telecommute type jobs).

It will be interesting to see if Treehouse themselves start to delve into that realm soon. I think they'd be great at it.

Sorry, John. You completed my thought while I was still toiling on a note.

George: I also wonder if contract employment is a good foot in the door? As John said, even craigslist has some decent leads, and a lot of them seem like placement firms looking for a warm body/pulse and a portfolio. Might be worth checking out.

I'll have to check them out thanks alot for the replies. I also wonder if its a good idea to throw your treehouse profile link on your résumé so companies can see that you at least have training as well as seeing that you can do the work

Caleb Ellington , you reminded me of another site is just discovered the other day for remote Jobs:

http://remotejobs.io

A lot of the listing on Craigslist are also on Indeed and some of the recruiting sites. They try to cast a wide net, it seems. Contract work is perfect for a foot in the door. It gives you experience working with a team, and let's you see how things get done.

The Treehouse link is something I use occasionally. I have it on my own site, just so people can see I try to keep up on things. GitHub is probably even better. Most people look for something like that, BitBucket, CodePen, or even Stack Overflow before they look for a Treehouse or a Codecademy link.

Another site that aggregates all of your coding and learning activity is CoderBits. They give you badges for achieving certain things like "Earn 50 badges on Treehouse" or "upload 20 repos to GitHub", and then they show a bunch of pie graphs with what they believe to be your top skills and tools.

Ooh, I like it. Thanks, John Locke!

Yeah, that site I do include sometimes on my resume, just because it looks impressive and they can see statistics at a glance. Zerply, Geeklist, and About.me are some other places where you can show stuff that you've done to the other developers and designers out there. Dunked is another new one, too. I think that's supposed to be a play on words from Dribbble or something.

As other forms of gaining experience I would recommend:

Emailing local design agencies. Explain your situation and see if they have any projects you can get involved in. Some agencies, I'm told will outsource smaller tasks and projects sometimes. If you do well more work could come your way.

Find a local creatives meet. If it's like I've experienced then you'll be most welcome and it could lead to opportunities. I've already gained local contacts after attending just one meet! One contact has already said he may have a project I can possibly be involved in.

Twitter is your friend. Follow designers or devs you like the work of, interact with them, and you may find opportunities arise. Also you'll find people offering small jobs, tasks and projects. Designers who need a site coding. Or they may have a client who they can't help out at the time, and request some help. Again, opportunities are out there.

Keep building. This industry relys very heavily on you needing to show what you can do.

Hope that helps.

Thanks Ben Russell I really do appreciate all the help all the tips guys!

<a href="http://www.dice.com">www.dice.com</a> has kept me working for the last decade... There are ALWAYS a ton of development jobs on Dice

If you want to freelance, start freelancing. Cut out the middleman.

I'd love to but I don't have the capital right now so I'd like to get some real experience and build up contacts and clients before I can rely on just freelancing

George Offley You can always see if anyone you know needs a site built. It's a way to build up your portfolio. I echo what others have said: attend Meetups for web development in your area, just meet people and show you're a good person and you have some skills and desire. Twitter is ok; a lot of people might not interact back, but be kind and polite to everyone regardless. There are some nice people out there who will help you. That one is more of a long-haul time and energy investment.

One thing that you can do ( that I should do more of, actually ) is to WRITE.

You obviously have computer access, that's pretty much all you need to start freelancing. I'm not saying quit your day job, but I would work on projects in your free time.