Gregory's ServerWhile I'm thinking of it, here's how I got my last four roles:
1) Referral from a friend
2) Acqui-hire
3) Referral from a former coworker
4) Referral from a friend
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@meetar I don't know if I've ever gotten a job through an ordinary application process. Oh wait, that's not true! My first stint at Wired in 2010, I applied and got the job. But the vast majority were because someone thought of me |
Previous to this I worked for many years as part of the gig-based vfx studio "holds" system, which is in *dire* need of unionization. It is a very weird mutual-plausible-deniability setup involving Employers of Record and no benefits whatsoever