How To Get Hired

@robably__ @adhiraj_OTW For me it really has been this simple. Is weird to realize too that when you drop the whole shtick of trying to sell (and often the desperation — which is harder to untangle for many tbh) and just be a human with interests and skills in the right places and showing up in the

nearly all huge career mistakes is that you get an offer and blindly accept it just to get out of the suffering of thinking about your career and then don't talk to a single other company, so you have zero leverage and no idea what else is out there

for those asking: do something. help the person out, provide a favor, build something cool in public. this is how you get jobs and the attention of job seekers. the goal is to stand out, not be like the rest.

Do not touch LinkedIn Apply. For inbound, work on projects w others and post about them. Skip HR, go straight to execs/employees. For outbound, spend 1-2 days working on a demo, or reuse prev projects related to the product/role. Do this for several months for a few places

@olhmr As someone who sees thousands of applications a year, one thing really stands out: Effort. People who really want the job make extra effort in presenting themselves. Has to be the right effort, not annoying effort, but when you see it, it quickly gets noticed.

best way to get hired: tweet side projects related to where you want to work want to join a design tool company? design a mini one. want to build agents? make a small one and tweet it. people will share your work in slack and need zero imagination to picture you at the company