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What do you find effective?

• alkonaut 6y ago
  A solid reputation among people I already know. Short of that, a good portfolio of prior work. good internet presence which shows how a person handles disagreement, conflict. This is why a small GitHub presence is extremely valuable. Not because I want to see people grind away at weekend work or have a full commit graph. Simply because you can hope to see people interact with others in e.g a bug report or PR. How did they behave when their PR was rejected or their bug report was dismissed? This obviously is a step beyond self promotion. At this point I’m already reviewing someone’s resume. So the question is perhaps how would you get noticed to begin with? How do you market yourself? I don’t know. Work? No better form of self promotion than doing a good job.
  • cutemonster 6y ago
    > treat hashtagged self-promotion on LinkedIn as a big negative What don't you like about it? > how would you get noticed to begin with? - - - Thanks btw for writing about how you think about GitHub PR discussions etc. Btw i didn't post at all to LinkedIn at least not yet
    • alkonaut 6y ago
      > What don't you like about it? Not sure. Something just seems off. Perhaps it's because you have a category of not-very-close friends on LinkedIn promoting themselves really hard and the correlation between people self-promoting in that very "LinkedIn fashion" and being a really big asshat seems strong. Anecdotal, but still.