Online Communities

There are a lot of online communities out there for developers. Find two or three that you like and hang out in them regularly.

To be clear, you should not go find 20 different Slack communities related to programming, join them all, and spam their "welcome" channel with messages about how you're looking for a job. Not only is that not going to work, but it's going to get you blocked and banned as well.

I recommend three things universally:

1. Join (if you haven't already) the Boot.dev Discord. This is the best place for you to get general-purpose job search help from our community.

2. Join the official Discord/Slack/Forum for the programming language or framework you're most interested in working with professionally. For example, the Golang Slack or the Python Discord.

3. Join a Discord or Slack group for the tech scene in your local area.

You will probably only have enough time to meaningfully connect with folks in a few communities, so don't go overboard. As with physical meetups, the point here is to become a "regular" and get to know people. If you're a regular, and you make some friends, they'll be much more likely to help you out when an opportunity arises.

Offer help more often than you ask for it.