Jason Voorhees
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I have another inspirational story one that I've personally witnessed. Another guy from my uni who got hired by Bloomberg and he taught me a valuable lesson. I think y'all can learn from too. The importance of learning in public. This guy wasn't some kind of topper or some insane coder or whatever. He was decent but not exceptional in anyway what he was just great at networking, building connections, great communication skills and understood theatrics well and that got him his job.
Every time he dove into a new framework or tool he'd post biweekly updates on LinkedIn. Like quick insights, lessons learned, and small mini projects with live demos. and hashtags. Nothing groundbreaking. just steady, authentic progress shared publicly over months consistently.
Then when the placement season came he prepared 2-3 very unique projects that he had live links to. He then complied a list of companies like a targeted list of 200-300 companies using those tech stacks and tools that had services and products centred around the stuff he learnt.. Then started cold approaching them. He found out their LinkedIn pages, their websites and started liking them so he started getting LinkedIn notifications from them. He slowly started connecting with 4-5 people from each organization.
These were the people who could potentially get him a job like hiring managers, senior engineers etc and then he started networking with them. He started putting valuable comments under their posts, started writing valuable articles that resonated with them and then the pivot came when he personally went to London at an event and met some of these companies and these people he had been talking to and whose posts he had been commenting on for months. I think this is the biggest differentiator that seperated him from the noise and cemented his relationship.
Then he started applying to companies one by one. Finally he got a call from a few companies in the UK and one of them was Bloomberg. Yes the Bloomberg. The highest paying company in Tech and Finance in the UK. They did round 1, 2 passed all of them and then finally got flown in and the rest is history. He is currently making ยฃ95,000 per year. Did he get lucky yes ofc but he didn't just sit there waiting to get lucky. He created those opportunities and once he was offered a chance he nailed it
Every time he dove into a new framework or tool he'd post biweekly updates on LinkedIn. Like quick insights, lessons learned, and small mini projects with live demos. and hashtags. Nothing groundbreaking. just steady, authentic progress shared publicly over months consistently.
Then when the placement season came he prepared 2-3 very unique projects that he had live links to. He then complied a list of companies like a targeted list of 200-300 companies using those tech stacks and tools that had services and products centred around the stuff he learnt.. Then started cold approaching them. He found out their LinkedIn pages, their websites and started liking them so he started getting LinkedIn notifications from them. He slowly started connecting with 4-5 people from each organization.
These were the people who could potentially get him a job like hiring managers, senior engineers etc and then he started networking with them. He started putting valuable comments under their posts, started writing valuable articles that resonated with them and then the pivot came when he personally went to London at an event and met some of these companies and these people he had been talking to and whose posts he had been commenting on for months. I think this is the biggest differentiator that seperated him from the noise and cemented his relationship.
Then he started applying to companies one by one. Finally he got a call from a few companies in the UK and one of them was Bloomberg. Yes the Bloomberg. The highest paying company in Tech and Finance in the UK. They did round 1, 2 passed all of them and then finally got flown in and the rest is history. He is currently making ยฃ95,000 per year. Did he get lucky yes ofc but he didn't just sit there waiting to get lucky. He created those opportunities and once he was offered a chance he nailed it
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