Jobs by Referral: Find jobs in your LinkedIn network
I have some friends who were laid off and are on the job hunt. We were all quite surprised to learn that LinkedIn does not have a "view jobs only at companies where I have connections", so I built https://jobsbyreferral.com/ It's powered by https://rapidapi.com/letscrape-6bRBa3QguO5/api/jsearch, which is a little pricey, so I'm trying to decide whether to put more effort into the project (I'd have to charge _something_ to offset the costs).
Jobs by Referral: Find jobs in your LinkedIn network launched on July 1, 2025 with 174 votes, #203 of 9,223 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 1 year on.
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Jobs by Referral helps job seekers find openings at companies where they have LinkedIn connections. The tool addresses a gap in LinkedIn's native functionality by filtering job listings to show only positions at organizations where the user has existing network contacts. It's designed for people actively job hunting who want to leverage referrals and existing relationships. The service is built on a job search API and is currently exploring a paid model to sustain operations.
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> Edit: Hello! I've decided to sunset the JobsByReferral.com project (which might have redirected you here). It was super fun while it lasted, but wasn't free t
Edit: Hello! I've decided to sunset the JobsByReferral.com project (which might have redirected you here). It was super fun while it lasted, but wasn't free to operate! Throughout June 2025, several of my developer friends had been laid off. We were discussing the state of the job market in tech (which is... Not Great, Bob), and were collectively surprised to find that searching for jobs on LinkedIn no longer had an "In My Network" filter (but more on this later -- it's still there, sorta). The conversation kept coming back to how frustrating the job search had become in general. Cold applying to jobs has become ineffective when you're competing with hundreds or thousands of applicants per…from jobsbyreferral.com
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