Don't people get job offers anymore from someone they used to know that moved to another company and then like "hey I know this really great guy who works at XYZ, we should definitely get him here"? That is literally how every job I've moved to happened, except for the very first one right after being a student. That's the only job I ever remember having to "interview" for. The rest were just through established social connections by working in the tech industry. Surely if you have skills and work hard and other people know about this, they would be knocking at your door?
It's just weird to me that people go job hunting by "cold-calling" some random job advertisement where they don't know the company or anyone that works there. If I were hiring people, I'd go for people I personally have worked with, or been recommended by someone that I work with, waaaaay before hiring some random person that showed up at an interview.
It's just weird to me that people go job hunting by "cold-calling" some random job advertisement where they don't know the company or anyone that works there. If I were hiring people, I'd go for people I personally have worked with, or been recommended by someone that I work with, waaaaay before hiring some random person that showed up at an interview.