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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (5 children)

I’ve never had to do a job interview. 5 different jobs, all word of mouth.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I would also like to know where people network to find jobs. Haven't had any luck. I just want a help desk role.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

A lot of it has been family and college. The college I attended has a research group that allows students to do internships.

The college also runs job fairs every one in a while. Those kinds of things I huge.

Conventions of any kind as well, where you can speak to people in booths, or even any of the other attendees.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I've been to college job fairs and went to conferences. Didn't really help.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

My first ever job was running a wood chipper under my uncles tree business. Did that almost every weekend for a number of years. Even sometimes in the winter. I wasn’t even a teenager when I first started this job.

Second job was working in a warehouse at a company my mom worked at. They really needed weekend help.

My third job was doing landscaping over the summer at a smallish company where my brother in law worked at. The owner loved to hire students for cheap.

Fourth was a few software development internships ran by a research group at my college. I had a friend who was part of the group and vouched for me.

My current job is my first true career job as a software engineer. The project manager from one of the internships I had actually got a job as CTO at this company. Offered me a junior position there out of college. Been there almost 6 years.

I have applied to places where I certainly would have needed interviews, but I was never offered an opportunity.

To make this even more awesome is that I’ve interviewed candidates myself at my current job for junior positions.

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