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A coffee shop chat in Austin made me rethink my whole job search
I was talking to a guy who switched from sales to coding, and he told me to stop applying for jobs online. He said, 'Go to two meetups a week for three months, talk to people, and you'll have an offer.' I did exactly that and got my first tech job through a connection I made at a Python meetup. Has anyone else found that in-person networking works way better than sending out a hundred resumes?
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eric_cooper877mo ago
Honestly, two meetups a week for three months sounds like a full-time job itself.
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troy_reed6mo ago
It's crazy how much better it works. I spent months on job boards with no luck. Then I just started going to a local dev night and a coffee meetup. I wasn't even looking for a job, just asking people what they were working on. A guy I talked to about his project ended up needing help and brought me on. The online stuff feels like shouting into a void sometimes.
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jennifer3587mo ago
Wow, that's so true... I was sending out resumes for months with nothing. Then I just started going to a weekly game dev coffee hour and met my current boss there after a few weeks. It feels like a secret everyone knows but no one talks about.
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