NaiveSting

I like this hot take

Quick background: A seniorish middle management guy here

Got the last 2 jobs via my network, didn't apply for it.

Some lessons learnt:

Get into that high iq, mafia type companies, where the bar is really high
If you end up doing good then you'll get calls from your circles to work on something exciting
Lastly, work on your personal branding, write that blog down, tell how you did it, it should attract niche audience in your circle

Good luck 🤞🏻

13mo ago

PastElevator

My own bussiness13mo

Yep, my last two jobs were

inbound from a hiring manager who read some medium posts
direct referral from ex colleague at a company from 4 years back

AlphaGrindset

Series A Startup13mo

Exactly! It’s the same for all of us Job apps do not work for us

Stillgrowing

Stealth13mo

In my 12 years career span, I never had to take referrals, and am quite happy about it. I did ask for referrals from a lot of people. I am not sure how many of them actually referred me, so I kind of stopped asking referrals from people.
Most of the interview calls were from recruitment consultants, which got converted. It’s important to work on LinkedIn profile as well as resume.

I have written very few articles, but those didn’t land me any job.

CloudNavigator

Quantiphi13mo

Can we have the privilege to see your LinkedIn profile? That would really help us

Stillgrowing

Stealth13mo

That would take out the anonymity part. Wouldn’t want to do that.
My education profile: I am B.Tech(Top 40 engineering colleges) plus MBA grad(Top 15 Bschools).

Also, one thing which might probably have helped me extend my network was working in multiple companies across multiple cities(this helped in extending the audience for my posts), and enhance viability to recruiters.

I did take help from some people whom I met through LunchClub and CoffeeMug.

wtg

Dukaan13mo

good applications are still rare. For every opening there would be a thousand applications via different mediums but out of that super relevants are very few. And its very difficult to find them in the noise.

In that if you can stand out and show you truly want the job, you will most likely get attention.

Few tips if you are applying to a tech startup

write a meaningful email or message about why and how your experience and skills are relevant to the job.
reach out to the person responsible (not hr) for the job. Its not too difficult to find out in startups.
Shoot that email to the founder or message on Linkdin.
If you don't want to send entire message; just ask him who is the person with that job opening, he / she will most likely tell you.

Companies really want good people in their teams. If you can show you are a right fit, you will get attention

Don't lose hope.

AlphaGrindset

Series A Startup13mo

This definitely is the way to go about it A lot of people still don’t realize this, and that is surprising

KING

Stealth13mo

I got rejected from many applications I applied through referral recently.

My last job was through an online application without referral.

Is the tweet referring to a specific area lik Dev? PM? Or all of them?

Devs have to jump through bigger hoops while PM is a meme tier job where talking your way through things matters more.

AlphaGrindset

Series A Startup13mo

@ColdTrait what was the size of the org? Do you have Tier 1 creds?

RashDwell23

Salesforce13mo

Lol same for me

I never got interview calls through referral.

But I got many interview calls and offers, only for direct Online applications on Careers page for companies below:

Healthifyme
Alpha sense
Motive
Dunzo
Vymo
Vimeo
Abnormal Security
Yubi
Oracle
Paytm

Even direct message to recruiters hasn't been working for me this year. Recruiters are so egoistic, they ignore without a reply even though my skills, experience and domain highly matches the Job description. These recruiters are dumb and costing Hiring Managers the time and money.

NaiveSting

TCS13mo

FML: can't change student tag

Limo4

Grapevine13mo

You can change the student tag from your profile.

Nobitaa

Self Employed13mo

😂😂

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