New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: How do you find employment opportunities in 2024?
Ask HN: How do you find employment opportunities in 2024?
3 by g4zj | 1 comments on Hacker News.
Towards the beginning of my career nearly 20 years ago, I found that I would spend around 2 to 3 years with a company, before my skills improved and my professional network grew enough that something new would come along as a result. During this time, I rarely gave job hunting a second thought, and things just sort of worked out. Perhaps I was just very lucky. About 9 years ago, I was recruited through LinkedIn and landed a position at the company I'm still working for today. At that time, it seemed as though this method of discovering career opportunities was the norm, and so while my experience with this particular recruiter was not great, it all worked out and I settled into my new role fairly comfortably. After about 6 years, I felt like I'd be doing myself a disservice if I waited any longer to begin scoping out the job market. But a few years have passed now without much to really show for it in the way of interviews or really any interesting job prospects at all. In fact, it almost seems like the world has moved on without me. I feel as though I'm wasting my time on LinkedIn, but I'm also not aware of any fancy new replacement that has come along in the last decade either. So in your experience, how does one find employment opportunities in 2024? Is it all about networking? Are things just really tough in the IT world lately?
3 by g4zj | 1 comments on Hacker News.
Towards the beginning of my career nearly 20 years ago, I found that I would spend around 2 to 3 years with a company, before my skills improved and my professional network grew enough that something new would come along as a result. During this time, I rarely gave job hunting a second thought, and things just sort of worked out. Perhaps I was just very lucky. About 9 years ago, I was recruited through LinkedIn and landed a position at the company I'm still working for today. At that time, it seemed as though this method of discovering career opportunities was the norm, and so while my experience with this particular recruiter was not great, it all worked out and I settled into my new role fairly comfortably. After about 6 years, I felt like I'd be doing myself a disservice if I waited any longer to begin scoping out the job market. But a few years have passed now without much to really show for it in the way of interviews or really any interesting job prospects at all. In fact, it almost seems like the world has moved on without me. I feel as though I'm wasting my time on LinkedIn, but I'm also not aware of any fancy new replacement that has come along in the last decade either. So in your experience, how does one find employment opportunities in 2024? Is it all about networking? Are things just really tough in the IT world lately?
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