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Quite often you can come across people with an amazing job, that seems tailored exactly to them. And you ask them, how did you find this job?! to which the answ
by he11ow 6y ago
Quite often you can come across people with an amazing job, that seems tailored exactly to them. And you ask them, how did you find this job?! to which the answer is NEVER: oh, there was an ad and I submitted my CV.
You have deep domain expertise and some coding skills. This combination is valuable. Everywhere across the investment industry, you see companies trying to get a little more clever with automation and code. There's a lot of opportunity that's never going to show up in job boards, but gets distributed through relationships.
Ideally, you'd want these opportunities to find you, or at least engage with the people who need this kind of skills combination.
And LinkedIn is just so great for this sort of thing. If you hone in on a niche - in your case that lies at the intersection of coding and investments - and consistently engage on these topics, you'll see this transformed into an audience, which turns into opportunities. It may not happen overnight, but clearly you have a long-term mindset.
If you'd like to read more on this approach, I've recently written about audience-building tactics on LinkedIn:
https://medium.com/skill-strong/how-to-build-an-audience-on-linkedin-382a029e6e04 https://medium.com/skill-strong/how-to-build-an-audience-on-...