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Now programmers/software engineers are in a quite special position, especially in SV and similar locations, where it is a seller's market. For most others it i
by pathy 13y ago
Now programmers/software engineers are in a quite special position, especially in SV and similar locations, where it is a seller's market.
For most others it is about getting noticed, if a hiring manager has 100 CVs sent to him or her, how will you stand out? Baking a cake will not help you if you don't have a good CV/qualifications but it will help you get noticed and stand out.
Another way, which is just as silly as baking a cake is to buy adwords with the hiring managers name [1]. It is a novel strategy to get noticed.
Point is that it is much easier if you have a network to rely on for introductions, weak ties are very important when job hunting. So if you don't have any network to support you, you have to become creative in order to get noticed.
[1]: http://mashable.com/2010/05/13/job-google-ad-words/ http://mashable.com/2010/05/13/job-google-ad-words/
- russgray 13y agoDo people really google themselves that often?
- pathy 13y agoApparently advertising execs do! ;) I don't know how often people actually Google themselves, I do sometimes but that is only to see if my 'personal SEO' efforts are paying off. Thinking back, how many times have you Googled your self? Paying for adwords on exec names are a novel strategy, just like the cake baking and song writing. It may work, it may get you noticed but it may also totally fail.
- russgray 13y agoWell I googled myself just now, as a direct result of reading this thread. The last time must be well over a year ago. I don't think I even bothered the last time I looked for a new job.
- Robin_Message 13y agoOther way around :-) When you are looking you a job at a particular company, put up google ads for all relevant executives and hiring managers names, so when they google themselves, they find you. That came out zen.
- Aqua_Geek 13y ago> especially in SV and similar locations, where it is a seller's market I keep hearing this, but it's not at all what I experienced last time I went on a job hunt.
- 46Bit 13y agoWhat is your background and skills?
- Aqua_Geek 13y agoMy skill set consists mainly of lots of iOS (worked on over 2 dozen apps in the store, including major brands), Mac development, Ruby + Rails (more experience in the backend side of things than the HTML/CSS/JS portion), but I've dabbled in a lot of things over the years.