In addition to other good ideas here - identify and reach out to recruiters. Engineers, like most professional jobs, are either hired through the team's profes

In addition to other good ideas here - identify and reach out to recruiters. Engineers, like most professional jobs, are either hired through the team's professional network or otherwise recruiters because no hiring manager is going to spend the time sourcing unknown candidates themselves. Therefore identify the types of recruiters who work with the types of companies you are most likely to work at, and contact them. They need to bring candidates to their clients and so you are mutually benefiting each other. They may also be able to calibrate you for the types of roles you are qualified for and how your resume stacks up against what they are seeing in the market. If you don't know any recruiters, ask friends who are hiring managers at startups and mid-market companies who they use (esp if it's outside recruiters). Identify via LinkedIn inside recruiters at big firms if you want to work for a big firm (note that most are not hiring, however). If you need to get new work reasonably quickly be realistic with the types of companies you are most likely to get a job with - ie similar space, type of eng work, etc and identify those companies and ask who they use for recruiters. Pretend you are an engineering hiring manager at a startup - how would you identify those recruiters for your role? Search for good recruiters, create a hit list, reach out to them, etc. One of the startups I work with has about 4 open roles right now, two are eng, and we are working with 4 different recruiting firms to fill those - so there is activity but it's now an employer's market given the shifts in the market. Good luck!