Slack Is a Great Way to Find a New Job: Here’s How

Turning to groups on Slack to network with other professionals and find jobs is a recent phenomenon

George J. Ziogas
3 min readApr 27, 2023
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When you need to quickly find a new job, conventional job websites or even social media may not be the speediest ways to go. Instead, a professional networking forum on Slack could be the right strategy.

How do you go about job hunting on Slack?

Any networking group or forum on Slack you may want to join will always need an invitation. When you identify a group that you’d like to join, put in a request and wait for someone to let you in. Many people looking for new job leads find that when they discuss their availability on a professional Slack group, they often receive high-quality leads, interviews, and job offers within days.

Slack groups exist for professionals in every field, for different ethnicities, genders, and so on. Once you join the right group, you can expect other members to post information about openings at their companies. Posters tend to only post positions at companies where they’ve seen good things happen; a bad experience could reflect poorly on them.

While forums exist for different professions, companies, and industries on Reddit, Discord, and…

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George J. Ziogas

Vocational Education Teacher | HR Consultant | Personal Trainer | Manners will take you where money won't | ziogasjgeorge@gmail.com