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1. Do you have a LinkedIn account? If so, instead of telling everyone your location is San Jose, CA, change it to the city you actually want to be in, recruiters will find you easier that way.
2. It might also be a good idea to make resume(s) with the city of where you want to live and upload them to places like Indeed, Dice, Monster, Careerbuilder, etc. I don't even have my full address in my resume anymore, just the town I live in.
3. SEO the crud out of your LinkedIn profile to get more recruiters to contact you. I used this book and I went from recruiters contacting me once a week to recruiters contacting me every day (no joke.)

How to Write a KILLER LinkedIn Profile... And 18 Mistakes to Avoid: Updated for 2020 (15th Edition)

https://www.amazon.com/Write-KILLER-LinkedIn-Profile-Mistakes-ebook/dp/B019ELXR8W/ref=sr\_1\_1?dchild=1&keywords=linkedin&qid=1622899031&s=digital-text&sr=1-1

> So, did you guys network during school?

I've literally been people networking since I was 15, when I went to my first 2600 (https://www.2600.com) meeting. I got 2 of my internships that helped paid for college through people I knew at 2600. I got my first, second, and third job from people I knew from 2600. I got a bunch of other jobs through people I knew at NANOG (https://www.nanog.org)

People networking IMHO is crucial to finding a job.

Some tips:

1. Go to Meetup.com and start going to online IT user group meetings in your area. Yes they are online because of COVID19, but it's better than nothing and hopefully soon those meets will be in person.
2. What isn't on MeetUp.com, web search for IT user groups that aren't using MeetUp (most are though.)
3. What products in IT do you like? For example, I go to a Cisco user group, a Palo Alto Networks user group, Linux user groups, etc (pre-COVID19.)
4. Do you have an idea that you think you could present to an IT con, like ShmooCon, or NANOG, or DefCon, etc? It's not just who you know, it's also WHO KNOWS YOU. If you have an idea that gets accepted, put in a slide of your presentation that says,"Hey, you looking for a <whatever you are in IT>? I'm available for hire, please feel free to talk to me after this presentation or email me at [email protected]" That way you potentially have 500+ more people who will see your presentation, many of them are worker bees who know of a job in their company that is hiring, and a lot of times even hiring managers are in the audience.
5. Find Slack, Discord, and Internet Relay Chat (IRC) servers / channels that are in your IT interests. You can easily do a web search for them, or ask on Reddit. Talk to people online, help people with problems, and you'll make online friends. I literally got a job once because I complained on IRC I was just laid off. Someone I knew from 2600 then privately messaged me, and it went from there. For example - https://www.reddit.com/r/devops/comments/nu6361/looking_to_join_devops_slack_channels/
6. Make personal business cards and hand them out post-COVID19. It's awkward handing out resumes for yourself and for the other person.
7. If you don't already have a LinkedIn profile, you should make one. Then SEO the crap out of your profile it using this book. I went from maybe one recruiter a week pinging to a recruiter pinging me every single day. How to Write a KILLER LinkedIn Profile... And 18 Mistakes to Avoid: Updated for 2020 (15th Edition) - https://www.amazon.com/Write-KILLER-LinkedIn-Profile-Mistakes-ebook/dp/B019ELXR8W/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&amp;keywords=linkedin&amp;qid=1622899031&amp;s=digital-text&amp;sr=1-1

HTH.

Opinions are like noses, everyone has one. Also, here are a bunch of tips I wrote in another post on finding a job through people networking:

1. Go to Meetup.com and start going to online IT user group meetings in your area. Yes they are online because of COVID19, but it's better than nothing and hopefully soon those meets will be in person.

2. What isn't on MeetUp.com, web search for IT user groups that aren't using MeetUp (most are though.)

3. What products in IT do you like? For example, I go to a Cisco user group, a Palo Alto Networks user group, Linux user groups, etc (pre-COVID19.)

4. Do you have an idea that you think you could present to an IT con, like ShmooCon, or NANOG, or DefCon, etc? It's not just who you know, it's also WHO KNOWS YOU. If you have an idea that gets accepted, put in a slide of your presentation that says,"Hey, you looking for a <whatever you are in IT>? I'm available for hire, please feel free to talk to me after this presentation or email me at [](mailto:)" That way you potentially have 500+ more people who will see your presentation, many of them are worker bees who know of a job in their company that is hiring, and a lot of times even hiring managers are in the audience.

5. Find Slack, Discord, and Internet Relay Chat (IRC) servers / channels that are in your IT interests. You can easily do a web search for them, or ask on Reddit. Talk to people online, help people with problems, and you'll make online friends. I literally got a job once because I complained on IRC I was just laid off. Someone I knew from 2600 then privately messaged me, and it went from there. For example - https://www.reddit.com/r/devops/comments/nu6361/looking_to_join_devops_slack_channels/

6. Make personal business cards and hand them out post-COVID19. It's awkward handing out resumes for yourself and for the other person.

7. If you don't already have a LinkedIn profile, you should make one. Then SEO the crap out of your profile it using this book. I went from maybe one recruiter a week pinging to a recruiter pinging me every single day. How to Write a KILLER LinkedIn Profile... And 18 Mistakes to Avoid: Updated for 2020 (15th Edition) - https://www.amazon.com/Write-KILLER-LinkedIn-Profile-Mistakes-ebook/dp/B019ELXR8W/ref=sr\_1\_1?dchild=1&amp;keywords=linkedin&amp;qid=1622899031&amp;s=digital-text&amp;sr=1-1