If you are applying local you can go to meetups and meet people and easily get in to interviews. The hard part is if you want to go to another city and have no

If you are applying local you can go to meetups and meet people and easily get in to interviews. The hard part is if you want to go to another city and have no contacts or networks. You can't really go to meetups there before you move. I've had to move twice for my wife's job, it's brutal losing two networks. Luckily I was able to work for my previous companies remotely. Then when I wanted to move on I attended meetups and got connected with the right people. Finding work remotely is also an option but it's really difficult getting responses. They get flooded with so many applicants you probably won't even get a reply.