Happy Friday Techies

I wanna thank everyone for joining in on this community

So i’m gonna be giving away some secret sauce 😉 

In this week’s issue - It’s the usual 4 posts

Want the secret giveaway? Just scroll to the bottom of the email

Else, here’s our 4 posts for the email

1. Digging Graves - how to use Dead Job Boards to get Fresh Opportunities

2. Go Long - stop thinking so short term

3. English Mother #$%^&* - Do you speak it?

4. How you can LEGALLY move to Europe

Sneak Peak to the give away

The SECRET GIVEAWAY - $1000’s of data for you for free

PLUS I made a video on how you can use that data to get those high paying remote jobs

Sit back, take notes, then take action

JOBS

Making the most from DEAD job boards

This is a job board that’s dead - and that’s why its a ripe with opportunity

• It’s no longer used but they didn’t delete the old jobs

• You can filter for specific tech stacks - just find yours

• Reach out directly to the companies - Search them on LinkedIn or go to their careers page on their website and apply

How you can use this board

• You should find the companies hiring on Linkedin,

• Reach out to their founders, CEOs, CTOs and Tech Leadership

• Message that you saw they are interested in African tech talent - and continue the convo from there

Hope you enjoy

CAREER ADVICE

Go long

Ok I don’t wanna make too many American analogy, but this one hits hard

When you “Go Long” in American Football (a BS sport btw) - it basically means you start running without looking behind, it means you start moving forward but with no definite target in mind

And this really goes hard for your career

A lot of you just need to start moving forward, to go through your career with a forward trajectory

• Dont look back at missed opportunities

• Don’t look back at mistakes and failures

• Don’t look back at your successes and rest

You need to move forward

• Run forward with a belief that where you are going is going to work out

• Run forward with a belief that obstacles will come and go

• Run forward with a belief that it will work out

You all want the perfect next job, the perfect next client, the perfect next move

It doesn’t happen that way

What usually happens is - you move in a direction, and someone sees you moving in a direction they want or need, and they toss you the ball (the opportunity)

You just gotta catch it

INTERVIEW ADVICE

English - Your Secret Weapon

I don’t care if you have an accent, if English is not your first language - and no one else does either

But people do care that you can communicate well - especially in a remote world - it’s a must-have

A lot of people are going to underestimate you because you are from South Africa

They hear “South Africa” and think San or KhoeKhoe - This is you advantage, this is your time to shine - You’ve really got an opportunity to impress them and capture their attention and interest

The Easiest Way

Loom or Tella 

Record a nice little intro video - personalised to that person

• Introduce yourself

• Show you’ve researched the company

  • Recent hires

  • Discuss their Tech Stack

  • News and Announcements

• Drop a thought as to why you’d be valuable

  • Skills and Experience

  • Budget and availability

  • Time, effort, culture, diversity

Pick a card and play it

LEGAL ADVICE

Talk to Sherianne

Sherianne is a Saffa helping Saffa’s move to the Netherlands - and she is awesome

Reply to this mail and let me know if you’d be interested in moving to the EU - specifically The Netherlands

• if you are and are willing to pay - i’ll ask her to hook you guys up with a solid discount!

• Else she charges 1500ZAR per hour for her consults

• See why I wanna hook you up with a nice discount now 😉 

GIVE AWAY - MARCH MADNESS 🙌 

Going to Drop a Data Dump on you

Ok so how do you find remote work?

You gotta find companies first

How do you find them?

Well you can spend hours on LinkedIn manually searching, you can buy data from data providers, but that costs thoundands of Rands, you can subscribe to Remote Techies and get it for free 😉 

Here’s a video for you

Literally goes into the data I created and gives a brief explanation

• Bonus, I show you how I use that data to get clients and make moola

• I give you some Calls To Action you can use and some copy writing examples of what to say on the Linkedin Invites and Cold Emails

Here’s the Google Sheet with the data

Reply to this email if there’s a data set you think would be interesting - i’m happy to add to the google sheet

THATS A WRAP

Before you go: Here’s 3 ways I can help you

1. LinkedIn - I’m always hiring - but only 2 to 4 people a month - connect with me on and send me your CV - currently, I only hire people with 7 or more years of experience - if you have less, but are EXCEPTIONAL, i’ll make exceptions

2. Youtube - i’m always making content to help you out, subscribe and binge

3. Free Career Advice - i’m going to be giving away CV feedback for early subscribers for free, I usually charge $100 for a resume roast - i’ll make a recording and send you feedback - just reply back to this email with your CV - its totally free for first 10 people