I obtained my current position through a "Who's hiring" post, back from around the fall 2014 time frame. I currently work as a full-time remote software develo

I obtained my current position through a "Who's hiring" post, back from around the fall 2014 time frame. I currently work as a full-time remote software developer for Rackspace's OnMetal product (https://www.rackspace.com/cloud/servers/onmetal https://www.rackspace.com/cloud/servers/onmetal), which can be succinctly described as a bare-metal cloud. It's been an enjoyable position in many dimensions: interesting work, open-source focused development, a large degree of autonomy and flexibility, and highly competent teammates. I believe the main reason I got a phone interview was due to the email I wrote in response to that post. It described my most recent professional experience in terms of how it challenged me to grow as a software developer, an overview of how it worked and what technologies I used to build it, and what value that work ultimately provided. That modicum of effort was well-rewarded. Actually getting hired also depended on doing fairly well during the subsequent interview process, but that process wouldn't have happened without standing out somehow in that initial interaction. tl;dr: Write a good cover letter!