shrey vijayvargiyaFrom website scraping to creating the perfect pitch deck.
Under the Hood
The story begins when I write this story of 30 days strategy of finding new job opportunities. Followed by writing another story to improve this tactic by applying inversion thinking, both the links are added below to read.
How to find job as a developer in 30 days
Today’s story is about improving tactics to grab for grabbing your next job opportunity in 30 days.
Web Scraping for Automation
The entire process to find the companies and then search for the direct email id of either HR or the corresponding person is time-consuming.
If you are a developer then why can’t we automate this process once and then reuse it again and again?
I create this portal called Find Jobs Portals to find the perfect job portal for your next job, the portal that will help you to grab your next opportunity.
The idea is simple, use any of the portals to scrap that website and collect the extensive list of companies currently hiring and if possible grab the email id also.
For example, Angel.co/jobs is a good platform now I can simply use a scrap algorithm and extract the companies currently hiring with their website and email id.
We can easily do this using Puppeteer in Node JS and another package in ruby or go or python.
This will save most of the time and repeating the same process on different portals might give the same companies currently hiring so we just have to apply on them first and foremost to increase our chances of getting selected.
Perfect Pitch Deck
We have to sell ourselves in the email body.
It’s better to create different email bodies for different companies according to their need but most of the bodies will remain the same.
This is what your email body can look like,
- Start with the introduction in 2/3 lines
- Proceed with your expertise, and experience in again 2/3 lines
- List down the extensive list of your projects or work experience, prefer links or numbers over words
- List down the other small projects links
- List down the tech stack
- Thank you note and
- Attach the resume at the end That’s it about the perfect email body for the job opportunity.
Complete Strategy
I am again recalling the complete 30 days strategy to find your next job.
- Collect 10 companies' email ids each day for the next 15 days
- Apply to them at the end by sending the pitch deck with your resume attached
- No need to go for follow-up if companies are not replying
The strategy will be the same only the tactics will be different, now we can use portals to either find the companies on our own or we can simply use an automation scraping tool to even automate that process.
If I’ve got the time to develop a such tool, I’ll add it for others to use and share on the Find Jobs Portals website.
Until then, have a good day, people.
Shrey
