Congratulations.
There's always opportunities even in the worst market conditions. Some of us do not have years experience as a PM, for example, or certs/licenses.
If you'd like to share tips on what worked for you that'd be great.
I work in commercial BD / partnerships. I don’t code, not a single cert and I’m not a PM (although I do work with them sometimes). I’ve worked in tech for 8+ years at 3 (soon to be 4) companies.
Only advice I can think of :
- Try to stick in one industry, preferably one you can enjoy. Don’t recommend bouncing from marketing software, to payments technology, over to healthcare software etc. If you can spin up 3+ years in 1 industry, or 4-5 years total at 2 companies in the same industry, you become infinitely more hireable in that space. Somebody sees you’ve already worked at companies that they work with or compete with? They know you know more already than someone coming in blind. The industry I work in now, I’m decently well known, my work precedes me and I know the tech. But if I left and went to sell marketing software tomorrow? I’d be some a$$hole who has to learn the whole industry again.
- Don’t be afraid to try the startup nobody has heard of. A lot of people struggle because they wanna be a SWE at a FAANG company or a PM at a company their mother has heard of… If you find a Series B startup in a growth industry, and they seem to have their shyt together, it’s worth a try. You’ll get equity, and you’ll have faster tracks to promotion than at a 5,000+ company. Could the company end up not working out in 3-5 years? Absolutely. And if it doesn’t? Job market will still be out there. No risk it no biscuit.
- Be somebody that people want to work with. It sounds simple, you don’t need to be a smiley face ass bytch all the time, just don’t be an a$$hole. I see a lot of shyt on thecoli about how they don’t fukk w/ their supervisor, keep things on a need to know basis w/ their co-workers. I’m here to work and go home, not be friendly
That’s cool for daps, but it holds you back in real life. My first 3-5 years in tech I got some opportunities I may have not been ready for, purely off the strength of being affable and being someone that other people ‘wanted’ to help out. We have this new role and don’t know how to fill it, hey let’s give Joe a shot, people like working with him and it’s easier than finding an outside hire. He’ll learn it as he goes. Nobody is hiring a new person saying “he’ll learn it as he goes!!”. You get the benefit of the doubt by being someone people wanna work with.
That’s very basic advice I know, but looking back on when I started, those 3 points are the main ones that have gotten me from point A to point B.
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