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How to stand out from the competition
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So youâve taken a course.
But you still havenât gotten that tech job you wanted.
Hereâs what to do next.
A MESSAGE FROM ENTRYLEVEL
Learn tech skills in 6 weeks.
Beginner to tech? No problem. Get guidance for portfolio project and show it off to recruiters in 6 weeks. If you donât get a job interview after the course, youâll get a 100% refund.
1. Improve your LinkedIn game
Post your portfolio project (if youâve taken an EntryLevel course, you definitely have a project).
But donât stop there.
Post:
The key insights you learned
Your thought process behind your projects
Cool things youâre doing
Questions about your industry
Your story and unique career journey
So when you do cold outreach, people will see your posts and learn more about you.
More LinkedIn tips: https://www.entrylevel.net/events/using-linkedin-for-your-job-search
2. Interact with 1 new person in your industry every day
This doesnât have to be a lot of work. It can be:
A LinkedIn comment
Talking to someone in a community (like EntryLevelâs Discord, where we post job postings)
A cold outreach message on social media (or email)
In fact, cold outreach is how many EntryLevel students like Christiana landed jobs.
3. Improve your portfolio
Common mistakes to fix in your portfolio as a beginner:
Instead of a generic heading like âmy learnings,â put what you actually learn. Pretend your headings are the only things people read (because they kind of are) - people need to understand your value with just the headline
Showcase impact. What did your project help accomplish? If it was a project for a course, what metrics would you have looked at to measure success?
Think âso what?â Every part of your portfolio should answer that question and make the company care about the value youâd bring them. Make it more about the value you bring to the company, rather than just about you
4. Measure and repeat whatâs successful
Got no responses to your cold outreach messages?
Refine and try again.
Notice a LinkedIn post performing better when itâs about a specific topic?
Post more about it.
Always look back on how you can improve - itâs how you grow.
Summary
Youâll get hired if you do these consistently:
Improve your LinkedIn game
Interact with 1 new person in your industry every day
Improve your portfolio
Measure and repeat whatâs successful