Job Search Any% Speedrun: Optimizing Your Path to Employment

The tech job market has been on hard mode for the past couple of years, and the rise of bots flooding LinkedIn applications hasn't made it any easier. The good news? There’s a meta for job hunting, and you can optimize your strategy to stack the odds in your favor.

We are going to cover how to "DevOps-ify" your job search. Slowing down to speed up and fixing the root cause applies to the job search process as much as it does to doing the job.

Is setting up a personal Kanban board nerdy? Absolutely. But if you are reading this, you are probably already a nerd and will appreciate discussing the meta of job applications and how to improve your win expectancy.

Speedrunners don’t brute-force their way to victory they optimize every move. Let’s do the same for your job search. And yes, there will be a Job Posting Tier List.

About the Speaker:
Drake is a senior full stack developer and lifelong learner. He fell in love with programming because there is always more to learn. He has worked on a variety of clouds and tech stacks, with a bias towards Microsoft, and dealt with application development, infrastrucuture, design and essentially every part of a devops team.

Drake is active in the Columbus Tech scene, both as an organzier and a presenter, and is always happy to help mentor junior developers (though he has a long recommended reading list).

When he should be sleeping, Drake volunteers with Rotary Youth Exchange. He designed the language curriculum the students now use to prepare to study abroad, which is considered the best in North America.