Its all about connections
Seems like everything revolves about connection, your focus should be on that! and here is way
I am a Software Engineer with about 2 years of experience at the time of writing this. For those of you who are or were in my position, or were lacking in experience in any other field for that matter — Focus on building a network of connections
After working for a year in the Embedded development (low level Software) I decided that this field is not for me, and it is time to make a pivot and change my careers direction. I went out there and started to send my CV everywhere. There was no answer back 🤯
How could this be? I finished my studies with good grades!?
After sharing my frustration with a friend, he told me to send him my CV and he will see what can he do for me at his company, I did not expect anything because the company he works at is way out of my league. The next day I got a phone call inviting me to an interview. What? How come?
How to get connections?
Connections are basically friends, family or anyone you have an access to reach, it could be by phone, mail, and even LinkedIn. You should spend a decent amount of time on building your network of connections, and here is how I have done it.
First of all LinkedIn, be sure to build a professional LinkedIn page, it should be professional, showing your experience clearly, and show off you skills.
Remember that when someone is looking at your LinkedIn page you want her/him to get that feeling that “Dam, I want that he/she would be working with me!”.
I like to think that anyone reading my LinkedIn profile is a costumer and I am a seller — selling the best impression on myself.
Every once in a while try to post something you have done, share an article (like this!), and send people you know or look up to a connection request.
The second part is connection at your current position, student, employee you name it — in any stage of your career you want to be friendly and helpful, you never know where your connections will be in few years.
According to study by conducted by professor Rob Cross of the University of Virginia
Our research indicates that social connectedness correlates with people’s health status. Indeed, social connectedness has been found to be associated with both mental and physical health benefits …
What we’ve found is that this isn’t what high-performers do. What seems to distinguish the top 20 percent of performers across a wide-range of organizations is a network [of connections].
Going back to my story, I did not get the job at my friends company — but I got out there, sent some LinkedIn message and emails (even to some people I barely knew) and I got multiple replies coming towards me everyday.
And after a while, got my dream job!
