The COVID-19 pandemic managed to make its own adjustments in the labor market, but left a chance to find a good job in the IT sector, including abroad. In order for your job search to be crowned with success:
1. Invest time in your resume
There are few people who regularly update and improve their resume - and here's your chance to be ahead. An average recruiter spends 7 seconds initial screening your resume. Follow these tips if you want to write a resume that will fall for you. It is worth noting that today there are a huge number of services for creating and improving a resume, which can greatly help you in achieving this goal.
2. Make a list of companies where you would like to get a job
List potential employers ( HelloFresh , Smartly.io , Avantgarde ,
etc. ). Then, on LinkedIn, find the business you want. In the "People" section (on the company page) you can see the list of employees. You need someone from the HR team to submit your resume. Ideally, this should be the specialist hiring for the position of interest. Otherwise, contact any team member, indicate the vacancy and ask to put you in touch with the right employee.
Typically, recruiters and HR managers always include their contact information on their LinkedIn profile. If there are none, using Google Search (for example, recruiter-name @
company.com), you can easily find the desired email address.
Increase your chances of success by writing a sample code and submitting it along with your resume, a link to your upvoted GitHub profile / personal site / tech blog, and a cover letter. (Yes, many IT companies still require a cover letter, at least this is evidenced by the results of this study .)
Alternatively, you can also look for your old acquaintances and acquaintances who are currently working in a company where there is a vacancy, and ask if they can recommend you or, for example, make an intro with HR.
3. Complete your LinkedIn profile
90% of recruiters (both in IT and elsewhere) actively use LinkedIn to find candidates. If your LinkedIn profile is 100% full, the likelihood of being noticed will increase significantly.
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Pay special attention to your profile headline - this is the text that appears in search results on both LinkedIn and Google.
Take a little more time, but write a good summary , as this is the first thing an employer / recruiter / HR specialist sees when they visit your profile. ( This article has a lot of helpful tips on how to do this.)
Make sure your profile, especially the headline and the About section (summary), contains keywords . In the process of searching for candidates, recruiters actively use Boolean search and keywords. Here is an example query for finding Python developers:
(programmer OR developer) AND python AND (mysql OR postgresql) AND (django OR flask) AND (chef OR puppet OR sentry)
4. Don't look for work exclusively online
Participate in various online and offline meetups , workshops, conferences, and so on - this is an opportunity to meet interesting people from your field and acquire the "necessary" connections. Even if this does not immediately lead you to the desired goal (find a job), it will definitely be useful in the future. Exchange with new acquaintances contacts, add them to your network on LinkedIn.
Networking is important for a variety of reasons. The first one is a great way to find out about vacancies, because many of them are simply not published. If you are looking for a job exclusively online, you are missing out on many chances.In addition, there are a huge number of Telegram channels, LinkedIn and Facebook groups, chats in Slack and Gitter , where you can get useful connections. Many of them, especially Slack, have a channel dedicated to employment issues. For instance:
- Dory Clarke
- DevChat ( #jobs channel)
- TechMasters ( #jobs channel)
- FEDs (front-end developer community with an active #jobs channel)
- SPB Frontend (#jobs_list channel)
- PHP Chat (#jobs channel)
- iOS Developers (# job-board channel)
- AndroidChat ( #jobs channel)
- Ruby Developers (#jobs channel)
- Ruby on Rails Link (# work-offers channel)
- Gophers (Golang developer community with an active #jobs channel)
- Python Developers (#job_board channel)
- Cpplang ( #jobs channel)
- DevOps Chat (#jobs and #jobs_remote channels)
- hangops (DevOps engineer community with #job_board and #job_board_recruiters channels)
Make connections, keep in touch - and then “sell” your resume.
5. Apply for vacancies directly on the company's website
Use all sorts of resources to find job offers (social media, traditional job search sites, niche sites for IT professionals, etc.), but when it comes to applying for jobs, do it on the company's website whenever possible. Firstly, your resume will go straight to the recruiter of the company and, secondly, more than one employee will see it.
Undoubtedly, the success of your job search depends on many factors, including the time and day you submit your resume. However, I am confident that the aforementioned tips - combined with a good resume - will help you find interesting new work faster.