Ask HN: Best ways to recruit on HN?
What are the best ways to get software engineering positions through HN? Do recruiters frequently reach out to people with cool projects that reach the front page?
First, you have no control over that. Second, it only lasts for a day.
The right way to do it is to build long-term credibility by:
- having a personal website (https://blog.kowalczyk.info/) with basic information about you , your up-to-date resume (e.g. https://blog.kowalczyk.info/static/resume.html) and a way to contact you (e.g. https://blog.kowalczyk.info/contactme.html)
- blogging on deeply technical topics. Avoid rants and anything that is not about technology. The "deeper" the topic, the better. (note that my older posts can be ranty; newer are not).
- do interesting, open-source projects. Have them on GitHub. On your website, create a "portfolio" section that summarizes the projects (https://blog.kowalczyk.info/software/ but it's far from the best portfolio design)
- for inbound recruiter requests have linkedin profile. The quality will be lower than those who contact you via website, but it's easy to ignore bad recruitment pitches
I do get contacted by recruiters. It resulted in one job and I do believe that portfolio of projects helps me when interviewing.
This is a very long-term strategy. My website is 10+ years of accumulated work.
In the short term, on 1st of every month HN has "Who's hiring thread". Apply for jobs listed there or in other high-quality places like https://stackoverflow.com/jobs