Clojurians Log v2

@simon.zachau don't people give you cold shoulder when you try to weasel around the usual pipeline?

Depends. Most times humans are excited when met with genuine interest about their work. At least that's the type of people I prefer working with. So in the cases when it doesn't work, I'll be happy that it was a filter.

Also, there is never a "usual" pipeline – there are almost always multiple ways of getting into a funnel. So if there is congestion on the funnel entry that everybody takes, I'm trying a different one 🙂

If you apply to the UN and orgs like that it's veery structured of course. But those are rather exceptions from my perspective.

> the need to apply to enough jobs to be statistically relevant Not sure what you mean by this but I think that statistically you won't be more relevant for any job x when you hit out applications to 10 other jobs, as they are independent of x. It might give you a feeling that you have invested more and diversified your chances. Which might be true. I tend to try to build a personal connection to any application to show that it's meaningful. "Show" in terms of reaching out to the responsible people, be it on Slack, Linkedin, email, phone, etc. Or to get a personal intro. Any additional ties beyond the impersonal route that anybody can walk, helps to customise the role to me, to tilt the negotiation handle, and to get any response in the first place. The latter is probably what you're after if I interpret correctly. Always remember Steve Jobs walked into the HP lobby and basically demanded to get the job. Without that, he would not have gotten it.