Pro tip: 90% of my job offers came from people I never interviewed with
I was digging through my saved emails last month and counted every single job I've ever gotten. Out of 11 jobs, 10 came from someone who had worked with me before, but not as my boss. It was a coworker, a vendor, a guy I did a side project with 3 years earlier. The one that came from a cold application? That was a temp gig and it paid the worst of all of them. It hit me that all this time I've been polishing my resume and practicing interview answers, but the real script is who you already know. Has anyone else noticed their best opportunities came from old contacts rather than actual interviews?