This week, I wanna give you an insight on how hiring managers think - we're stepping out of your shoes and into ours

But first, I wanted to record a message for you guys before you continue

Like last time, the new giveaway is at the bottom of this email

This weeks’ issue:

• Remote Army, Job board with only remote roles

• You suck at selling yourself - here’s why

• Getting your money’s worth

keep scrolling 😉 

JOBS

A job board for remote only

Check out this Job Board

The Good

• Its active

• It lists benefits

• Its got salary expectations

The Bad

• Its not got many dev roles

• Its not easily searchable/filterable

• You have Frontend, Backend & Fullstack

• But you cant go lower into the programming languages

As usual, find the company on LinkedIn - reach out to their founders, devs, and HR

CAREER ADVICE

Here’s why you suck at selling yourself

The left is what you think people looking at your profile are thinking…

…The right is what they are actually thinking

You’re going to step into my shoes today and have a look through a hiring manager’s eyes - what we see when we look at your LinkedIn or CV or worse - BOTH

Here’s why you suck at selling yourself

1. Its because you know yourself so well

2. Its because you don’t know what we want to know

3. Its because you think sales and marketing isn’t your responsibility

Here’s what we want to know (hiring managers, recruiters and founders)

1. What have you done in the past?

   1. What have you worked on

   2. How many people you’ve worked with

   3. When last did you lose your shit? (even though you’ll never tell me)

2. What are you capable of doing?

   1. What programming languages have you worked with

   2. What is your strongest language

   3. When are you at your best

3. What do you want?

   1. How much money

   2. How much responsibility

   3. What will keep you with us

   4. Why do you want to leave your current co

Incorporate the answers to the above in your networking, meetings, interviews - you’re gonna go far kid - real far

INTERVIEW ADVICE

How to get paid above market

Some of you aren’t going to like this - the truth hurts

But before I spit some truth, let me give you some food for thought

1. Above market is relative - top of market in SA is also bottom of market in USA

   • This means that you have to chose your market

   • Going overseas usually puts you into a higher market range

2. A rising tide - can drown you if you don’t know how to swim, else raise you up

   • Now I don’t want you to drown, so pay attention

   • Moving into industries, technologies, and sectors that are growing and booming is your best bet to top-pay

   • Crytpo/Blockchain, AI and ML, Cyber Security - these are three industries and sectors that are booming hard right now and are paying top of market globally as well as locally (in SA)

   • Python, Ruby on Rails, Go Lang - these are 3 programming languages that are strongly in demand but hard to find quality talent for

3. Two Words - Full Stack

   • This is gaining more and more traction, especially in startups

   • Founders and teams want full stack developers, yes you can lean more towards front or backend, but at the end of the day, knowing both makes you more valuable

   • People will pay more for fewer people - rather pay 1 dev 120k-140k ZAR per month than 2 devs 80K ZAR

Now - The Hurtful Truth

1. A lot of you won’t commit to any of the above - the endless, sometimes seemingly pointless, hours spent networking, emailing and linkedin-ing (new word alert) that’s needed to find international opportunities

2. A lot of you want remote work, but don’t think that that actually will make it more difficult for you to find work - because it will increase competition, it will increase the availability of alternatives to you - which means, you gotta get not just better at your job, but much better

3. If you decide to not change programming languages, industries or geographies - you will have to do much more to become a top of market commanding developer in your industry - and you probably wont end up doing that either

But if you do want help - just reply to this email with your questions, i’ll be sure to see how I can help

TODAYS GIVEAWAY

March Madness Continued

Ok going to spill some goodies for you

1. Get anyone’s Cell Number or Email for FREE - Prospeo.io 

   • All you need is their Linkedin profile

   • Rather get their emails - you can get up to 75 free per month

   • Their cell numbers you can only get 10 free per month

2. New Data - Dev Shops Hiring

   • This is important data because dev shops are more likely to hire remote developers

   • They also pay a premium to get strong developers, because it makes them look good to their clients

   • You are their profit centre, so they want great devs to then sell services to their end clients

3. New Data - Company list that has freelancers and contractors working for them

   • These guys already use freelancers and contractors - so you have an easy in

   • Most objections you’d hear are companies saying they don’t work with freelancers, so this shows they don’t have the objection and that you’ve done the research