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Make sure to keep in contact with old coworkers, especially if they've moved on to other companies. I've gotten contract work from former coworkers and actually got my first job because my boss' boss found out that I did some development and he was working with another startup that was looking for a junior programmer.

Otherwise I've had some success with recruiters, but the quality of the recruiter does matter.

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Keeping good contacts with old coworkers seems to work, my friends believes in me and my capabilities, so they referred me in their existing company many times(even though I was not looking for change).

I've had hit and miss results with recruiters too, and by large prefer to avoid them if possible. They tend to want to pick you up and shoehorn you into anywhere they can.

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