My current job (and previous one, for that matter) both started with the company emailing me out of the blue with a fairly compelling offer that got even better

My current job (and previous one, for that matter) both started with the company emailing me out of the blue with a fairly compelling offer that got even better after we talked a bit. But, they found me because I freelanced my way through college and built up a fairly impressive portfolio + have a ton of open source stuff on github. (It also helps that I decided to focus on JavaScript & front-end dev just before it exploded in popularity.)