sounds like an interesting article, wish i could have read it, but the floating social toolbar on the left side covered a quarter of the article on my phone.
How I got a job from a Hacker News post
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#12"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." Edison was kind of a jerk in a lot of ways, but he was spot on with this.
A far better quote than the one I used in the article - thanks for this one, I'll be hanging on it!
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#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
Patrick, this is great for our field where there are tons of influential folks blogging and/or tweeting. But what if you don't work in IT industry? My very dear friend works as an Internal Auditor. She earlier worked for KPMG and now she is working for a Fortune 50 company. She is looking for other opportunities as she feels that she is not growing in her current position. Now, there aren't that many Internal Audit b…
There's so many possible answers to this question but the easiest possible one is to go to a conference in the industry, on your company's nickel if possible (trivial), and start making friends. Or you can use existing contacts in your Fortune 50 network and get warm intros to the right sort of people at peer firms, clients, vendors, etc. Or, since I'm guessing one does not become an Internal Auditor the first day ou…
Almost hate to say it, but this is where a place like LinkedIn can really shine. Almost any profession has one or more interest groups on there where you can share stories with folks of a similar interest. You do have to be careful as more popular professions have their share of groups that are little more than recruiters and desperate job hunters in a mortal spiral. But reading for a while before joining can usually help you steer clear of those.
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#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
There's so many possible answers to this question but the easiest possible one is to go to a conference in the industry, on your company's nickel if possible (trivial), and start making friends. Or you can use existing contacts in your Fortune 50 network and get warm intros to the right sort of people at peer firms, clients, vendors, etc. Or, since I'm guessing one does not become an Internal Auditor the first day ou…
Almost hate to say it, but this is where a place like LinkedIn can really shine. Almost any profession has one or more interest groups on there where you can share stories with folks of a similar interest. You do have to be careful as more popular professions have their share of groups that are little more than recruiters and desperate job hunters in a mortal spiral. But reading for a while before joining can usually…
Agreed. If you don't have the network to find a job, create it. Cold calling/emails is a pretty inefficient way to do it, but it does work. Figure out what kind of job you want, find people that have that job and start talking to them. The most important thing is DON'T ASK THEM FOR A JOB. Just ask them how they got there and what advice they have for you. I've gotten more job offers that way than any other method.
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#15I too got my current job from a HN post. I posted about Bay Area salaries as I was flying out here for an interview. I included some of my background information and got a reply saying if I wasn't gonna be making X, they would love to meet and talk while I was in town. Later that night I had an offer. I love Hacker News.
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#16This is Networking 2.0. Good on you, but hypothetically if you hadn't gotten "lucky" by having the predictable consequences of directed effort come to pass, you (and similarly situated geeks) still had options. 1) What if big names in your space hadn't retweeted you? Well, since you know who the big names in the space are, you take an hour or two to lookup their email addresses. Then, you send a one-paragraph email:…
Patrick, this is great for our field where there are tons of influential folks blogging and/or tweeting. But what if you don't work in IT industry? My very dear friend works as an Internal Auditor. She earlier worked for KPMG and now she is working for a Fortune 50 company. She is looking for other opportunities as she feels that she is not growing in her current position. Now, there aren't that many Internal Audit b…
As someone from this field who's had a number of friends in management and executive positions in accounting and taxation. Getting into these positions is something that is really only reserved for people with
(1) Proven experience in the position (2) A number of years experience in public accounting firms (3) A peer recognizing and hiring you outright.
Finance positions are usually different because accounting, law and etc are very structured and getting into these positions requires authorization by various levels ranging from executive to board members.
But, you should definitely network because it's where everything starts. Just dont expect it to get you a job overnight - ever.
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#17Would you like to meet up? I will buy you some breakfast.
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#18After reading a monthly job post a while back, I had a couple of phone interviews with factual.com. While I didn't get that job, I can tell you that Ron, their recruiter, is still the nicest and most down to Earth guy I've met in my job hunt.
A month or two later, I actually got a cold email from someone who apparently really liked the way I replied in a thread. (I never found out which.) Sadly it didn't happen either; the person assumed that I could program simply because I was here. I went to school for it years ago, but can not with any proficiency whatsoever.
For all the talk that occassionally pops up about community quality, as I see it, this place is doing all right. Better than the profession my experience resides in anyway; journalism. Then again, I'm the genius that didn't see visiting 4chan as a big deal, in search of a direction to find an irc for Anonymous talk. Be warned, your boss may think differently!
(Yes, that last sentence was slightly tongue in cheek. I realize most would take theobscene material seriously rather than as childish outlashes. But I didn't think a journalist would.)
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#19I got my job from a reddit post I made (a year ago), and we were acquired two days ago ! high five from a fellow 'employee from the internet' :)
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#20I was at one point skeptical that frequent activity on the Internet would ever amount to anything worthwhile. I was offered an informal interview for my current job through a follower I occasionally talked to on Twitter.
I knew about the opening a few weeks before. What surprises some is that if I wasn't asked to interview I probably would have never applied for the role.