If you put this kind of effort in, opportunities will come to you. People will recognize you and your work. Your well earned reputation will precede you before you even walk in the door.
sigh This works for high flying traders, it works for rockstar coders, or people applying at "indie" companies (i.e. ones with renegade hiring styles). And so on.
And, typically, someone in that high flying arena misconstrues what he is seeing around him as the future.
It could well be.
But it ignores the fact that the vast majority of people still submit a CV, then wait and hope for an interview. CV's are far from dead (should they be? who knows).
If you want to work at the top, you can't do what the rest of us do. If you don't want to work there, well, it's a waste of time.
Seriously. If the only way to get hired is to be in the top X% (for X << 100), then what exactly are the other (100 - X)% that make up the majority of the population supposed to do?
We can't all be famous superhero rockstar coders.
That said, this is a viable strategy for getting a job- it just isn't grounds to declare resumes gone and buried, because it's impossible for everyone to secure their job this way.
sigh This works for high flying traders, it works for rockstar coders, or people applying at "indie" companies (i.e. ones with renegade hiring styles). And so on.
And, typically, someone in that high flying arena misconstrues what he is seeing around him as the future.
It could well be.
But it ignores the fact that the vast majority of people still submit a CV, then wait and hope for an interview. CV's are far from dead (should they be? who knows).
If you want to work at the top, you can't do what the rest of us do. If you don't want to work there, well, it's a waste of time.