Raising awareness

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Usually I rarely work on OSS projects or go to tech events.

But I'm planning on improving my image as an engineer. What are your tips for increasing awareness of yourself/work?

Would OSS be a good option? Maybe LinkedIn posts? Stack Overflow? WDYT is most valuable these days?

qwertyCoder · Accepted Answer

Create a side project and publish it online. Doesn't even have to be on Github. Just make something useful for somebody. There's two benefits: if it's useful for someone then you can charge them money for it and make money. Even if you don't make any money you'll benefit from employers seeing that you built something. I've never worked on OSS but had a bunch of side projects and that helped me land my jobs when recruiters or hiring managers would see it and discuss it during interviews.

FeetsTooBig · Answer

Do you use any OSS software yourself? If so, consider forking the project, pick an issue from their bug list, go fix it, submit a PR. Having a PR merged into a public project may demonstrate many things that separates new-to-the-field from experienced engineers.

Building up a StackOverflow reputation won't hurt, but it'll take a while. Ask good questions, upvote the answers, submit answers to others' questions where you can provide value.

IMO LinkedIn is a very noisy place with many plagiarised articles posted by people trying to get hired. If you're going to post something, post the original article link plus any commentary if you can add value.

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