I got into eXtreme Programming during college around 1999. I put it on my resume and dropped the name at various applications. I went around looking for Smalltalk jobs and then got recruited by ThoughtWorks in 2000, probably because I had the XP interest.
I recommend identifying what you want to do, find out who's doing it, and then contacting people there directly until they bring you in. Knowing what I know now, my approach of mostly sending out resumes and hoping for the best was not optimal. I still don't know how to "network" but calling companies that are doing cool things, or asking people on irc where they work and whether they like it, things like that, are probably going to be sort of like networking.
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I got into eXtreme Programming during college around 1999. I put it on my resume and dropped the name at various applications. I went around looking for Smalltalk jobs and then got recruited by ThoughtWorks in 2000, probably because I had the XP interest.
I recommend identifying what you want to do, find out who's doing it, and then contacting people there directly until they bring you in. Knowing what I know now, my approach of mostly sending out resumes and hoping for the best was not optimal. I still don't know how to "network" but calling companies that are doing cool things, or asking people on irc where they work and whether they like it, things like that, are probably going to be sort of like networking.