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How did you get your job? Any advice? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm in tech; senior level. But I've been looking for work for over 3 years. I've been getting advice/tips/tricks from other people, but nothing has worked so far. These are things I've tried:

Blindly applying for a job through the job form
Working with a recruiter to get me a position.
Asking to chat with someone on a team with an open position.
Asking to chat with someone on a team with NO positions.
Working to establish myself as an expert on social media.
Asking friends if their company is hiring.
"Slow networking" (not asking for a job directly, but trying VERY hard to be patient and get to know someone first)
Fast networking...taking the direct "hey, you hiring?" approach.
Lynchpin networking (connecting people w/ other people)
Giving talks at conferences
Guerrilla tech support (providing my 2 cents on a post even if no one was asking for it).
open source contributions
Temp agencies
state jobs
looking for "hiring" tags on social media.
connecting with high-profile people and asking if they need help.
developing a complete MVP that would help someone (yet I couldn't quite market effectively).
Leveraging previous employers to see if they have anything new.
Offering "low hanging fruit" gigs on social media.
Putting my resume on job boards.
Getting a role well below my pay grade and working my way up (if I try this I get automatically disqualified for being too overqualified).
Providing free consultation to businesses.
Hosting a podcast interview with someone from a company.
Writing a guest post for an article (I've kind of done this, I think).

Edit:

I've also had my resume, LinkedIn profile, and other social media, looked over by professionals and nonprofessionals alike. I've even gotten coaching. I've probably gotten more coaching than interviews at this point.

Another edit:

The only think that's worked lately (as terrible as it sounds) is groveling and telling people the severity of my situation. And that's just gotten me very very small dead-end projects in someone's back pocket. I'm definitely trying to leverage these as best I can.

Any other strategies people have found that works? How did you get your job? I'm running out of ideas.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I'm more than willing to adapt, but I need to know how I need to adapt.

One thing that helped me was reading every book I could get my hands on from common Masters of Business Administration (MBA) degree programs. (I picked a random respected school and googled "school name MBA book list")

People who control hiring decisions have a lot of jargon, but after reading 15 or so books off the Harvard book list, I understand the lingo.

I also did a lot of random weekend coding to make sure I had some public code I could link to from my resume. Anecdotally, I feel like I got asked a lot fewer bullshit coding quizes after that.