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 🤞🏻
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.
Can we have the privilege to see your LinkedIn profile? That would really help us
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.
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
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write a meaningful email or message about why and how your experience and skills are relevant to the job.
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reach out to the person responsible (not hr) for the job. Its not too difficult to find out in startups.
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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.
This definitely is the way to go about it A lot of people still don’t realize this, and that is surprising
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.
@ColdTrait what was the size of the org? Do you have Tier 1 creds?
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.
