Career Tips in Web3 | Sofia

Transcript

Yeah. Um, no. Not take her. No, that's okay. Uh no. Okay. What are you doing? Exciting to see everyone. GMG GM from France as usual. Usually I'm not in France, but actually yes. Um, someone want to call me.

Um, so I can't cuckoo. Hi, how are you? Great. How about you? Also good. Thank you very much for asking. Excited to have the session today. You took some happy holidays again. Sorry. You took some happy holidays. Happy holidays. No, holidays. Yes. Yes. Yes. I've been to holidays. I've been to Istanbul, uh, returned back sick and now I'm back into full force finally.

Really? Wow. Yeah, it was really nice. And then, uh, I also so I live in the Netherlands uh, now for everyone. And, uh, last Saturday, so basically two days ago, we had King's Day, which is like the biggest celebration um, in the Netherlands. And the whole city was of Amsterdam was orange but the whole country is orange days. Yeah. Because like the national color of the uh of the country and everyone has to wear orange and it was crazy. But it was really fun and I'm so happy that I got recovered by Saturday because I was so afraid that I'm going to get sick and I was like ah.

But no, everything went perfect. Amazing. Super cool. I just push a reminder. Um but I think like in two minutes as usual we are starting um not on time but two or three minutes after just to make sure everyone is here joining and yeah um a lot of energy because since one week and a half we didn't we we not see each other um everyone. Yeah. you I I try to make like um hoo I try to make like u one one week chill without like anything or a bit of

things and uh one other week um with the session because I think it's cool to catch up also everyone every two weeks or something like this so yeah nice I think we can start Um, perfect. Let me share my screen then. Yeah. And at the end I will I will I will give extra tips. Okay. Super. Um, nice. I think you should you can see me and you can hear me and you can see the screen, right? Yeah. Let me take one screenshot. Sorry. Sure. No problem.

With the song Wait. Cool. Um, so yeah, welcome everyone to today's session. Uh, it's going to be a lot of information, but please feel free to stop me anytime. And I'm actually liking it that the group is very small and intimate because um, I feel that Seline is great at creating safe spaces and uh, basically I'm a full supporter of this. Please let uh, stop me anytime. Let me know if you have any question and uh I'd like this session to be um well it's not really a conversation. It's not really planned as a conversation but I would love you to just ask me whatever you feel um needs to be asked and

basically uh today we are going to talk about um how can open source get you hired in web 3. So the first half of the presentation is going to be um about the open source and what open source means for in terms of hiring and recruitment and how it actually um changed the narrative especially in web 3. And then the second part is going to be more official let's say how to write a good CV if do you need a cover letter where to search for the job if you want to go to certain platforms uh or job boards whatever. So basically if not through open source how else you can find the job and how if you need to do it officially uh in a traditional way then um how you can do that. Um and a little

bit I didn't add the slide I forgot about this because not all of you reme remember or know me but um just a couple of words about myself. Uh my name is Safia. I'm based in the Netherlands. I used to live in Germany for a long time like eight years or so. Um and I've been working as a recruiter for six years of my life and three of them is in web 3 industry specifically. I used to work for a product uh based company uh which is called tender mint. Uh it's uh used to be a big name in cosmos ecosystem. uh now they've done a lot of restructuring and that's why I've been laid off and I found a job in the recruitment agency that was called it's called still it

still exists missing link and uh I've been responsible for hiring there for some very big names uh within um if you remember ecosystem some top L2s that I worked with some crypto exchanges new old ones um also yeah some smaller startups within certain markets for example in France or in the UK. Um, and since uh this month I started working as a freelancer and uh yeah, let's see where this journey will bring me. Um, but yeah, let's start with the uh workshop/presentation thing. Um, so yeah, first of all, I'd like to point out the benefits of building an open

source. Open source is going to be always your resume. Um it helps you not just to practice coding and experiment with new technologies. So basically kind of like confirming your hard skills, your the programming languages and frameworks that you're using and utilizing. It also showcases your soft skills. For example, problem solving. you know how to work remotely with uh some engineers that you've never seen in your life and you have to solve a certain problem, a certain issue and that showcases that um creativity because typically when you are building an open source you're building something new, you are experimenting and that kind of like confirms that you are creative

enough to tackle new challenges and ability to learn as well because you work on uh projects uh on real world projects on collaborating with top engineers and uh that confirms your kind of like curiosity that you want to build more. you want to you have this kind of like certain mindset um that um supports and that um activates your ability to learn and that all can be confirmed through um open source contributions and that's why uh many hiring managers recruiters are still hesitant in like searching in open source because they typically don't know how to do that and that's the main problem but if we speak

about hiring managers they love open source they always kind of like, "Oh my god, I love his GitHub." Um, for example, one of the clients that I'm freelancing for at the moment, the very first thing I need to send them is GitHub. And then if they don't have LinkedIn, if they don't have anything else but GitHub, that's perfectly enough for them. They can already judge uh by their open source work, if they are um relevant candidates for them or not. And it's not only about web three that I'm talking about because uh you open source is valid for any industry uh for any tech product and even if it's uh your personal product uh that you are tinkering with that also can serve as a confirmation that uh you're an open

source contributor um you are curious to learn um you're a problem solver you're a builder etc etc. So that's kind like yeah could you clarify what is an hiring manager and because Oh yeah sure so basically recruiter is typically a person who is kind of like responsible for bringing the person through recruitment process right but hiring manager is basically the person who is hiring and that person can be very technical or it can be a CEO of the company that is not technical but is looking for engineers. So recruiter typically has recruitment experience while hiring manager can have both technical and non-technical backgrounds.

But basically you are going to respond uh to report to the hiring manager in any role that you're going to be working with. So that's why hiring manager is usually has more weight um in the interview process than the recruiter because they are typically uh the people who are making the decisions about getting you hired in the in the team or not. All right. And here I wanted to specify uh differences in the application processes traditional way versus web three way.

And in the traditional way, you have to prepare resume. You have to probably write a cover letter. But before that, you have to wait till the job post lands on the careers page of the company website. Uh then you have to follow formal application procedure, which is typically, I don't know, three to five interviews, uh recruiter screening, then a technical interview, then maybe a case study, uh final meet with the team or with the CEO of the company, etc., etc. But basically the flow goes from the recruiter to hiring manager to confirming your technical skills to meeting someone on the sea level. Um but yeah that can be changed a little bit but generally speaking this this is the application procedure. Um you also have

to confirm that you have an education in software engineering. Uh you have past experiences in software engineer. That all is kind of like typical for traditional companies. Um however in web 3way um there is a lot of informal application methods that the the industry is following and uh it's called beyond rums which means that as I said you can be hired through your open source contributions through your um social activity social media activity through I don't know uh creating writing really good blog uh posts and then you can be hired as a technical writer you can be whoever you want for whatever skills you have basically and here I'm

going to share this presentation with you because there's quite a lot of links that you have to f follow and this is actually the link to the YouTube channel so I was uh working for a company called only dust as a developer care specialist uh which is I'm not going to go fully into details for that but I was responsible for the content management and I've interviewed a couple of women um during in the women's month and I interviewed Seline as well. Uh but the thing is that there is one interview that I did with one of the most active contributors on only dust Charlotte and uh she actually found a job through contributing on only dust. She has never

been a software engineer before. She has a mathematician background. Okay, but it's not software engineering. And basically what happened is that she started contributing to one project so much then they just responded to her one day saying hey do you want to join our team because you know everything already about us you know exactly the team you know uh what is the problems what are the problems that we are um uh working on. So we don't even want to do the interview process with you because we know you you know us and we want you to work with us. And that was uh her first job as a software engineer. So if you would be interested in you can just click on this and the YouTube uh video is going to appear here. It's a short

one 15 minutes. Uh but this is kind of like um yeah additional task you don't have to do that. Um then yes there is uh a lot of opportunities that are happening beyond job postings. Um so for example uh you can uh join a DAO which is a decentralized autonomous organization which are happening quite a lot on local and also online levels. Um and you can also here is another link that I wanted to share with you uh embrace platforms informal platforms and social media. So you don't have to be a wizard of LinkedIn in order to find the job but you can have as I said very strong GitHub or uh this is a great example here. So this girl um posted

that uh she has been fired I believe h just got laid off. Yeah. So, and uh she posted kind of like a meme about herself and why people should hire her. And she got a job as a social media manager at Alchemy. Uh one second, one month ago. Well, one month later, February 18th is when she posted and March 18th is when they hired her. So social media works in web three like um in fact because people are lay off a lot of time or etc just because it's like web three company cycle and so when you are lay

off it's kind of normal to post on oh sorry I've been lay off um this what I can bring when I will enter your company and then some people are like Exactly. So I think uh it's just about the way to find your kind of like the way how you can present yourself. The thing is that down there I think I don't remember where I saw it but uh maybe when I opened it this one up. Um no I think she actually reposted it. Just give me a second. Would you the link uh of the tweets on on the medium or please? Thank you. Yeah. Um, so

basically, uh, people started creating resume memes. Uh, they are called this way. Uh, but the thing is that I don't know, it's it's fun, but it's the same idea. So, I would rather go for something more creative for another way of representing myself because they just followed her style and and copied it. But at the same time, if they can land a job like this, then um, sure, why not? Um, I'm gonna copy the link. This is here. Oh, no. This is actually the first post. This one is better because it has an outcome as well. Um, there was a question. Can open source contribution

in web 2 lend you an opportunity in web 3 as a technical writer? Uh, sure, why not? I mean, it doesn't matter. It depends on the hiring manager and the company. uh some of the companies are very strict and they want someone in web 3. I don't really understand that um because we are very little amount of people in web 3 and we kind of like go circles most of the time because a lot of companies require web 3 experience. So I really adore people who are like we don't care about their background. We need a certain personality and that can be found in web 2 as well. Um that's why I think if the company strictly wants

web 3 experience then probably it's not your company. Uh but if the company is open then uh yeah they are open-minded and you will like working with them. So uh yeah technically speaking it is possible um to come um with no web 3 experience just web 2 experience um to lend an opportunity in web 3 as a technical writer software engineer whatever I mean oh yeah go ahead sorry I just wanted to say that one day I also was without web three experience and I landed a job in web free so everything can happen I think the best way to be hire a technical writer actually is to become first ambassador of protocols or

projects then start like writing content etc run that uh post on social media so like a bit of public building then um I don't know is like um you have to be close to the manager so basically more someone coming from developer relation side. So take a look at Deil Deil to if you want to to go more in this area. Yeah, definitely. I think this uh ambassador um track is is a very good track to learn more about the protocol

to be um attached to a protocol to kind of like um yeah just to know what you're writing about and to know what you're working on and then they will see you and then you can get a job definitely. Um there were two more questions. How much web free experience do we need in the starting? Well, it very much depends on how much is the company does the company require basically because sometimes they don't require any web three experience at all. Sometimes they require some years of experience. It's really hard for me to answer that question. Um it very much depends on um on the company basically that you are applying. Um and what is the personality

or soft skills web three companies look for? Um that's a good question. I think uh kind of like an open-minded mindset of a builder. Uh because you're always experimenting, you're always tinkering, you're always um trying out things. Um you have I I'd say think of an early startup. Most of the web free companies are very early stage startups. So you shouldn't be afraid of taking more responsibilities than are in your job uh description. basically um you have to kind of like be sick of an idea but in a good way that you have to be like really passionate about what you're building.

Um you have to not be afraid of as I said trying something new, break it if needed and then start over again. Um I think this is very typical of kind of like that early internet early startup um environment and mentality that you need to follow. I'd say this is going to be the main personality that uh especially smaller startups are looking for. All right, I guess I'm done with the questions. I'll go further. So uh let me just put it on. uh we stopped on uh yeah highlight skills and contributions over formal credentials.

Um so yeah as I mentioned you don't have to have a certain degree in certain I don't know software engineering or have five plus years of experience for some jobs you can be recent graduates and uh get a job of a founding engineer already. I think we will talk a little bit more about personal connections because this is very important in web 3. Uh because in traditional way it's often limited to professional networks, LinkedIn, uh professional conferences but in uh web 3 it's the importance of broader community connections is usually emphasized and there's even the term of like crypto bros, crypto friends because you can actually land uh you can have friendships with people. So it's not

only about work after all and to be fair uh most of the things are happening because of networking because of the yeah somebody knows someone and they can help lend you a partnership or get fundraising or get you the job. So um yeah there web three is very much connected in that way. Um yeah all about friends. Yeah, exactly. When I was giving a similar workshop uh recently, uh I even mentioned um uh the importance of smoking because if you are in the smoking room, it's it usually lends you a lot of like 10 to 15 leads typically.

So, uh yeah, I I have I'm not smoking, but sometimes I'm just going out with people because I know that the best connections are happening there. But this is a joke, okay? Don't take me seriously. um uh but yeah flexibility and innovation. So we know that the in the traditional way those application processes are very uh traditional uh you have to go through the recruiter you have to go through the um hiring manager to meet the CEO uh to apply for the documents blah blah blah and in web three way it can be very creative as I already mentioned in case with Charlotte she didn't even have an interview process or I knew some companies that

hired just having one half an hour call and uh they would prefer you to work for let's say 3 to 6 months on the probation fe per period to try out things together uh rather than go through a lengthy five to seven interviews uh process uh with you. So that's kind of like the main difference and now we are going to dig a little bit more into again open source. Basically the takeaways from here is that your GitHub is your real resume. Startups care about what you build and not about your degree. In web 3, um, hiring is typically informal. If you're waiting for a job post, you're too late, which is not entirely true. Not always

true because for example, uh, companies like um, let's I'll say a couple of names. Metalaps, I don't know if you know them, but I'm going to text you those into the chat. um Alchemy and Chain Link, those are already quite matured startups and they have already uh standard more closer to the traditional way than web three-way um hiring processes which means that you would have to go through the typical interview process. You would have to apply with the resume and cover letter and you would have to wait for the job post to be posted on their careers page.

So, it all depends on what kind of startup you are interested in and what you're looking for. But generally speaking, uh it is informal still. Um the most important tip here is contribute, get noticed and then you'll get hired. Yeah, exactly. Um and regarding rounds for informal uh no formal process uh sorry is like five to seven rounds before being hiring hired my English.

Um I just wanted to read a couple of comments that appeared during my talking. Um is it an appropriate way to build our own projects and posted it on X where web3 companies notice our passion to build and hire? Yes. Uh but I think it's also you have to be proactive. You have to post your projects uh in comments for example or get connected with the people because um think of that uh the typically if the company is already quite mature then the uh ex or any other social media channels are usually taken over by non- tech or marketing people specifically or just non- tech uh operations leaders or

whatever. So they are not typically responsible for technical hiring. So if you want to make sure that your project is noticeable, maybe it makes sense to get connected to a person who is a technical leader in this specific project and talk to them rather than just mentioning them in your tweet because it might still be unnoticeable also depending on the company. But I would say still be more proactive in reaching out to relevant people uh rather than uh just posting on X. But uh at the same time you have to post on ex I would say about your projects to to build kind of like that consistency to make sure that you're always active that you're always engaging with different

protocols that you're creating useful content for people to uh look into and to learn from. Um so it's kind of like um I would not say to to for to forget about posting on ex um on your profile at all. It's just that if you want to have a job at this specific company, maybe it's better to connect with real people and not just to try to um collaborate with company's Twitter or something to to try to get in touch with the hiring manager. But if you just want to build consistency around your profile, then it makes sense to uh post on X regularly basically. And don't don't hesitate to um like don't miss don't miss to follow um all all people

around um like follow onyx people u who are building in this uh in this protocol like for example I don't know if you want to integrate alchemy uh don't hesitate to follow people from alchemy and then um there's going to be like a circle because there they going to retreat retreat retreat Tweet. Yeah. Focus. It's complicated. Retweets um like and so on. So, it's going to be a great thing for you. Exactly. Um I was once in a situation where I started contributed to a new project that but it was as if my contribution was not valued. I wanted us

to put some things together now that they are just starting. Um well that happens. you you never know which contribution, which post, which I don't know um blog post is going to uh shoot and that's kind of like you have to try different things and sometimes it happens that you are getting uh not noticed or sometimes that you feel that the contributors are just not the right cultural fit for you. But that happens.

just move on and go to a next project and try something new. Um, happened to me sometimes as well that I've been trying to build things together with some other people and it didn't work out. It it's just life, I guess. Um it's not necessarily a web free thing, but I would say that it's also kind of like um happening quite often in web three that um you start working with people and then just the vibe doesn't get vibing and and uh it just not your type of company. Then um uh can you list some informal recruiters? I don't get the question but I guess just in recruiters there is uh for example there is one guy maybe I can

uh find him for you. Oh, one second. I need to when Yeah, I was thinking about him because I mean it's uh he he's quite an influential person on um Owen. Here he is uh in recruitment and he's working as a freelance recruiter. Um so here is his profile if you would want to follow him and uh yeah I think another guy that I would recommend you in like next slide really uh he's also having his own recruitment agency and uh I'm going to tell a little bit more about him. I don't know

personally own I've never met him uh yet uh offline but uh another guy I've met and I would highly recommend uh to um to follow his content as well. But um yeah, open source is your network. The best jobs come from connections, not applications. People hire people they know or are recommended. engage with projects, with maintainers, with communities because as I mentioned, you don't know when uh the next shot is going to happen. Um use Twitter, Wcast, meetups, uh events, hackathons, use any opportunity in order to be visible. And this is also a little bit extravagant. If you're not visible, you don't exist. Uh because I'm not that

visible sometimes, but I still exist and I still work and I still hire and I still have a a lot of clients. But at the same time um it's um important to yeah kind of like be active in the scene. So for example I uh would rather prefer um offline connections to online and we will talk a little bit about that later. uh but at the same time uh if you like be uh if you like being visible online then please use all types of social media all types all all methods um to be online and visible um and and yeah I I'd say that for example for builders probably the greatest way of

how to be visible is through their GitHub contributions so just work on your portfolio consistency you don't have to be presented everywhere offline at the meetups, online in Twitter, online in warcast and uh on GitHub because it might be also mentally drain draining. So choose wisely a couple of channels, one two channels and just build consistently. That's going to be my main advice. This is uh the guy that this is the story that I want to talk about and the guy uh is going to be on the next slide. So even Palmer he's my in my connections and he recently made a post about that uh if you are a recruiter in

crypto how you can uh be more how you can implement web3 native outreach strategies um and those that are actually work um pop-ups to recognize open source contributions digent tips on warpcast NFT business cards recruiting is yeah like I don't think it's going No, to be honest. And then the next comment was from Dan whom I know. With all due respect, I have a hard time imagining any of these approaches would be remotely effective. I've placed hundreds of people in free roles. I've never heard of anyone getting hired through connections made uh using these tactics. It doesn't work neither for recruiter or for um a candidate because

pop-ups to recognize open source contributions. I mean, generally speaking, yes, but why do I need to go into Bobs and someone wallets if I can just go directly to GitHub and see all the contributions there? So, it's a little bit questionable. Dian tips on warpcast. Well, they don't confirm anything. They just confirm that you can give a tip basically. I I don't know. I like work warcast and I like uh people building on Farcaster, but I think it's more about the building process itself than about tipping everyone. Um, so it's um, yeah, show respect with small but meaningful tips. Yes. But will it lead you to a new client or to a new job? I'm not sure to be honest. And then about the NFT business cards, well to be

honest, I also don't really look into my wallet and like, you know, look through NFTs and oh, I have an NFT of this person now. I can reach out to them. Everyone knows that uh when it comes to networking um you go I don't know you usually use twe telegram and uh you always can reach out to those people on telegram or yeah worst case scenario LinkedIn but um yeah I in this post I'm not judging you it's you up to you to uh have an opinion here and I've attached this linked post here LinkedIn post here I also attached even uh onchain recruiter newsletter Um this is more for the recruiters rather than candidates but it might be interesting also to see the perspective

of hiring managers. What do they think about when they are hiring for the candidates and I also touched here Dan's blueprint which is uh an newsletter and also notion for candidates specifically. So Dan has his own um uh company that is called uptop search. um when I met them back in 2022 or so they've been focusing mainly for in the US but now they are all over with the world basically hiring for uh really good protocols and really good um companies. So I would definitely um advise you to check all of the links out and make your own opinion about this and follow whoever uh the opinion uh you

find useful and and more uh clo closer to you basically. Um will you share your slide? Yes. Okay. No questions here. And uh yeah so open source is your job offer. Basically, we talked about everything a lot about all of this uh a lot already that uh many web3 devs land jobs without applying hiring managers that are typically devs. When it comes to um yeah, when it comes to you guys, you're all guys and girls. Uh you're all uh developers here. So, uh they definitely check GitHub and they sometimes check socials for just seeing the vibe basically. But it doesn't

really uh it's not really required. I'll show you an example in a minute of a guy who is working for Alchemy and he doesn't have a really active Twitter. So that's okay to be as I said very much involved into one um certain channel and uh yeah your commits community engagement content whatever you post in open source this all only adds you credibility. open source get get you hired passively. Um yeah there is a question uh following my handles on ex and LinkedIn. I'll leave them in the end of the uh of the workshop but maybe Seline

you can also share them later on telegram channel. Yes your your area manager you will find them uh during conferences as well uh because it's typically the kind of people like who are coming as a speaker and so on. So you can target before each each conference you can target which one uh you can talk with um at this moment don't forget. Yeah that's a good one and um yeah I don't really have any slides or any materials prepared on networking because it's a separate topic that I could talk hours about but and I'm also not really a professional in it. I can just share my humble opinion on that.

But at the same time, um it is important to make some sort of a market research before you go to any conference to make sure that um there are companies that might hire you. Uh that you know that there's going to be representatives of these companies um on this conference and you know how exactly to target them. So you maybe have a line or two to impress um them when you're talking to them. and then um yeah they will remember you out of the crowd basically um but maybe we can do another session at some point later about this because uh as I said it it's too broad of a topic to discuss it today. So yes coming uh to the case

studies basically those are the people that I've hired or I've been in touch with uh or they didn't get hired for me. Uh basically the first guy who is working at Alchemy um he used to work at Pelaton when I found him and his GitHub looked back in 200 yeah quite quite decent um but he was contributing to um Ether's uh imple wallet implementation in Rust which was written by the CTO of Paradigm which is a big investment fund and also they are working a lot on development of uh things of different things for the Ethereum ecosystem and uh basically

that's how I found him through the contributions to this library. I just how I did that I went to GitHub uh I was looking for a senior Rust engineer for this role. I opened up all the contributors. I scraped them all and then I uh found him in there and I saw that he is based in New York and I was like okay Alchemist is hiring in New York in San Francisco. I would like to uh get in touch with him and I texted him and he's like yeah actually I tried Paradag but at the moment they are looking for very specific hires and I don't have web three experience and I was like okay but you're going to be fine for alchemy. Let's try you out at least. And basically what he did um he was working at Pelaton as a rust

engineer. He introduced Rust to Pelaton. Uh Pelaton is the company that works on um uh the how do you call them? Bella machines. I'm not sure but maybe I can just Google it and then uh show you guys. It's it's bikes that uh are installed at home and then you just uh do exercises at home. So nothing in web three at all like he never knew what blockchain is before uh he just got curious uh because he got into rust then he found out that a lot of libraries are written in rust are in web3 and he got into this um ether's uh RS project and he started contributing for them for

free without any like without thinking that it will ever land uh him a job in web three he wanted to but he was looking for rather passively and uh basically uh he passed all the interview stages for alchemy and since August if I'm not mistaken of 2023 he's building for alchemy he's responsible for runler which is um some sort of yeah bundler for account obstruction in rust um here he is top five um of contributors so yeah uh quite happy with his role and uh yeah he had some experience experience as web 2 engineer but never had anything in web 3 apart from the open source contributions and that lended him a job.

The second uh example is um oh sorry uh is actually Harvard. He is from Norway and he was working as a tech lead in web 2 company as well and basically he never planned to become a web 3 engineer but he also got interested in uh technology and started contributing to RET actually another implementation in Rust written by paradigm and that's how I found him. Um we tried I believe two processes with him and something didn't work out and then he was like okay maybe I should start looking for a job. He got prepared. He started working a little

bit more on his online portfolio and he landed the job as a tech lead at chainbound uh working on bolt permissionless proposer commitments on Ethereum. So basically it's kind of like a job on the edge of research and development which is something that he was very interested about and uh yeah I believe it took him two to three months to polish his portfolio um and to make sure that he um is kind of like well-known person in in the space uh and yeah he he found the job um that he wanted. Fun fact um one of my friend um so woman developer uh exactly contribute to the same repo actually and one of um

the mner contacted her uh to get a job at flashbots. Nice. It's amazing. Yeah, it's really it it might be sometimes hard to get into uh contributions to to work with um leaders like Paradigm but uh generally speaking they are very much open for new talent and they know that uh if you contribute to their repositories you can get hired by them or another company. uh we have uh when I was working at only dust there was one guy Stephen he also contributed at paradigm and he also lended something I think it helped him to get a better job in web 2 um but uh generally

speaking it helped him so yeah um there was a question why do people really like to move to web 3 is it the technology the work culture the base I think it's all together but all of those parts can be also something why people dislike web 3. So it depends on how you look into that. For example, the technology many people say ah it's uh nobody builds anything really useful and we are not moving into crypto society and where is our financial freedom that bitcoin was uh uh promising us so much. So there are obviously cryptoessimists but there are also optimists who believe that um

it's like the early internet um it's something that uh we can get back the ownership of our data of our money of everything that um belongs to us and not to data servers of uh Amazon Google whatever. So uh when it comes to work culture, it's also the same. Some people really like remote um uh this um distributed uh companies and teams. Some people hate it and they prefer in office job. Uh then might be that web free is not really for you because uh web free typically are the companies working remotely. However, I've seen a trend when in the US for example the companies are returning back to the office. um the

pace similar you can be really overwhelmed by an extremely fast pace of the technology and like if you are off for a week from Twitter um then it's really hard to follow what's happened where and how protocols are raising money every day basically um some new patches some new technologies features of the um networks are also appearing maybe not every day but every week so if you decide try to get a digital detox and in a month you come back, it's going to be a completely new form of web 3 appearing to you. So that's why um some people prefer it, some people like it to keep all the time learning something

new. Uh some people hate it and they can't keep up and then yeah, web 3 is not really for them. So I guess it very much depends on what you want and you have to decide for yourself if you would like to join a web 3 community movement. I don't know the industry. So yeah, decide for yourself. And then there was another case when a person got rejected actually when he stopped contributing. So I had a guy in the process for a very uh actually all no this yeah he got hired by alchemy but um um Estensson and uh another person I'll keep him anonymous uh they were in the process for the same job for a very famous L2 in

the Euro ecosystem and the company decided to proceed with um Estinson rather than with this person because of the open-source contributions. So the company said, "Oh, uh, he didn't contribute for the last one year, mostly one year and a half. That's why we are not going to continue with him. Uh, we're not going to even interview him." And the reason why he took a break was the family reasons. Um, he was raising a son, which is understandable, and it's a little bit of a pity that he didn't uh get a chance to get the interview, but at the same time, I kind of like understand what they meant by that. One and a half years ago, Ethereum space was completely different. So many new

technologies, so many new trends appeared during this time. And if it's, you know, if it's a month, then it's still okay. But if it's a one year and a half, it's really it's so many things have happened. So many new um trends and so many new kind of like even looking into the ZK technology. I've been a little bit um off from uh following the latest trends and I feel like I'm completely lost and I've been not following it for maybe the last two to three months. Um and here we are talking about a year and a half. Um that's why open source opens doors, keeps them open. Uh but you have to still consistently be interested in open

source contributions in the latest trends at least a maybe once in a couple of months, once in a month because um web 3 space is just uh crazy fast and uh you can't keep up. If you are going to leave for a year, it's going to be a completely different form of um industry basically. Got a new comment. Thank you for the insights and being so honest in open sphere web 3 work and culture sounds awesome. Agreed. It's a very uh fair comparison. Perfect. No questions.

That's good. So, we kind of like finished the first half uh which was about the open-source contributions and why they are important. I hope everyone followed that and everyone understood that. So now we are kind of like going to the traditional part. What if you are applying for a web three company or web two company doesn't matter and you still need to follow this traditional way of applying where you need to um go and uh write the CV where you need to write cover letter where to search for the job and uh also I'll talk a little bit more about the meetups conferences and why offline connections sometimes uh mean more than online. So here are the principles of a strong CV. Um it's important to keep it short. It's

important to use bullet points to strengthen your skills to the point. Um you also it it depends on how you would like it to be built. But about me might be as important as the rest of the text. And I prefer to keep uh if I want to write about me in my resume then I keep it as past uh present future kind of like style. So basically there's should be two to three sentences in about me section and uh the first sentence is about your past. Uh basically a software engineer with three plus years of experience in fintech industry something like that very short very to the point then about present. So what are the what is the blend of hard and soft skills

that you can offer? Um let's say proficient in JavaScript and react. I'm uh able to meet the deadlines to uh pro be proactive when needed and to uh take over tasks uh where where needed as well. Something like that. And then the future is basically the sentence where you um describe what you want. So for example, if you are applying for a web 3 job without having web 2 experience, then this is going to be a great sentence for you to explain why you're applying to web 3. Maybe uh let's say you are an open source contributor on only dust uh and then you can include that there that you are willing to move into web 3 industry and you are kind of

like getting yourself prepared to become a web 3 engineer. uh or you can uh describe something like willing to move into V3 because of this and that and that because I have passion for um financial freedom uh because I have um um I don't know for example you can also mention the threeack um as an experience because uh I feel that you are learning quite a lot here um so and you're again getting yourself prepared into jumping into the web free industry etc etc So basically you would have to decide for yourself how to describe your past, present and future. But the main point is that the last sentence should be kind

of like should confirm why you are applying for this job. And that's the sentence that I would typically change. So past and present usually stays the same for any sort of job that I'm applying to. But then the future one depending on the industry, depending on the company that I'm applying for. Do I want to be specific about this company or do I want to just uh keep it uh web 3 generic? It's up to me depending on the vibe how I feel about it. Um tailor CV to the job. I think it depends because if you're planning to apply for I don't know 100 jobs then it would be a disaster to tailor your CV to every to each and everyone uh every job.

Um so it's going to be it's going to take too much time. Uh but uh for example what I also suggest you to do let's say you are a full stack engineer and you don't mind working in front end or in the back end. So I would create one CV that says let's say if your job was always a full stack I would create one that is more into front end and one that is more into back end and then depending on the job that you're applying to apply with that specific one. So if you're applying for a full stack and you clearly see from the job description that is more on the front end side then you um apply with the front endish uh CV and vice versa. Um and and for example

uh if you are let's say having an experience as a front- end engineer but you're also learning smart contract development I would suggest you also to separate those two. So for example to apply for the front- end engineers with your um experience from web two um as a front- end engineer but then if you're applying for a smart contract engineer role make an imp emphasis on smart contract development in your CV making the front-end development kind of like lower in your um in your CV. So highlight more of your smart contract development job. Even if it's just about studies, if it's just your personal smart contracts that you've built on GitHub and left uh left an open source,

um still it is important to kind of like that your CV screams more of a smart contract developer rather than the front- end engineer. Um so that's why it is important and also do not include everything. So for example, if you had student jobs as um I don't know um an animator in the hotel, please do not include it because uh that kind of like shifts their attention to that specific jobs. Um there's a comment sorry can you say that again? Uh what exactly? Just wanted to follow on which part uh which part I need to repeat.

Sorry. Uh no, it was more uh more of a smart contract than front end that you have to separate the CVs. So that you have to um um basically if you if you have experience in both then separate and make two different uh resumes rather than try to put it all at once because then the recruiter or whoever is going to check your resume is going to get confused. um who are you a front end engineer or a smart contract engineer? So you need to exactly write different resume for a specific opportunity based on your skills. So in my case, uh I'm I'm going to bring a silly example of a recruiter but

basically the um the idea of my job is that I can do full cycle recruitment, but I can also do a very specific one, which is sourcing and I have to create two different rums. Um one specifically for that sourcing part of the job, and one is more kind of like broad full cycle recruitment job. So you kind of like um when you're thinking about what what are you interested in um if you have more than one track of your interest then it's better to separate to make your resume more visible for that specific track rather than again include everything into one um document. If you have past jobs in not

related field like you were electrical engineer then it's best to skip that for a front- end job in web 3. Um I would say so you can mention if for example you have done that for 10 years and now you're switching over to software engineering I would just leave it as one line uh in the uh in the CV so to mention that you actually have some experience but then you can also in about me section bring something like I was an electrical engineer by um education and specialization I'm currently evolving my skills into becoming a front- end engineer in web 3.

So that person has an understanding. Aha, that person used to work there, but now they're willing to switch over to another field. Um, senior front engineer web 2. Is it hard switching over to web 3? Not really. There are some specific web 3 libraries, but they're all based on JavaScript and TypeScript. So, as long as you know those two, then you should be fine. And solidity is also kind of like based on uh Typescript and JavaScript. So even if you need to know um some kind of like connections of front end to smart contract then it's really relatively easy to learn um things. Um I got some offers for a web

three role but I declined it as I don't have that experience. Oh why did you decline the roles? Because they offered you the roles. So, um if you are not, um like if you're up for a challenge, um you should try it. Like my personal moto is that I should try it because then I don't know if I could make it or not. And at least I tried kind of thing. Um, so yeah, if if you if you get another offer, maybe you should try and see how it goes and then um at least you've tried.

Um, oh, that usually send a message reaching out uh to ask if you can do it and I get worried of sending my me my image if it doesn't go well. That's why I declined. I see. So basically, it's not really an offer. It's just that a recruiter reaching out to you uh with a kind of like proposal uh with the job description to apply. Um so yeah uh I understood. Sorry I I misunderstood your comment. Um well basically I think you should be honest uh with the recruiters.

Um that's totally fine. Uh just explain that I you can cover this and that and that part but in this you are new but you are um fast learner. would it be okay for them to proceed? So I think you should just uh tell them the truth but also mention that you are currently uh for example in the free pack that you are um uh that that you are doing the education and now you just need to kind of like learn practical skills and you could do it through the job that they're suggesting. So, um I I think you should try it out. And also that's kind of like my advice. And I know I'm going to be a bad recruiter here in a sense that I'm going to make a really it really bad for

the recruiters and really good for you, but consider recruitment as a sport. Um you have to constantly kind of like go to the interviews. Even if you don't really like this job, sometimes it's better to take um this interview just, you know, to practice a little bit to see what kind of questions people are asking for because then you can get better prepared for a job that you actually like because they might be asking you the same questions. So why I'm making this hard for other recruiters is because you will all go to those interviews and the recruiters will be like, "Oh my god, this person is not relevant."

uh but at the same time I'm I'm always have been uh more on the candidate side and I'm always taking care of the candidate experience and I personally sometimes also go to the interviews when I know that I'm not going to take this job or I I'm just curious to know like I go to uh and that was not a secret for my previous company for the agency I was going and trying to talk to other agencies to see what they're working on sometimes they would just tell us the clients and I'm like okay good to know it's like it's as I said it's like a sport. You just treat it um as a as a competition and uh you win when you excel. It's the same with uh I don't know if you've ever taken language tests

for example because language tests like ISELS let's say for English they're never about language at all. They are more about getting you prepared for a certain system and you have to think as a system. You don't have to think in English. You have to think as a system and then you excel and that's uh the same basically the same thing here. Do you have any idea of how many applicants by offer like 100 500 or Yeah, I think like 100 to 150 nowadays and uh I'd say that it's really um it depends on the job. So if the job is remote then obviously they get more

applications and uh if the job is yeah in person then uh yeah I'd say also a lot of applications because sometimes people just misread and they uh don't really treat that uh yeah people are needed to be in France for example but then they apply from another country and they say ah it's okay I can learn which yeah obviously if they specify that the job is in France then they need someone in France um as an example. So yes, um I'd say that uh there was actually there's going to be another slide, the next one uh with a really cool Instagram. If you have Instagram, you can follow this guy. And he recently posted a video um how by accident they

posted a product manager role and uh it got over 150 applicants if I'm not mistaken. And they had to close this role and explain to all the candidates. Sorry, but we made a mistake. we just uh we didn't mean to hire anyone at all but then they already got a lot of applications. So yeah that's why it's it's really a competitive field being recruited being hired and that's why you have to treat it also like a sport. We don't have a web three experience for example smart contract development uh what should we include under experience? Well, you you all have from my understanding web two experience. So that's um should be already a good start. But then um

anything that you have related to smart contract development experience. So your studies, your open source code, um your I don't know blog posts maybe if you are a smart contract auditing doing auditing uh that all will help basically whatever it can be um connected to smart contract development even if it's again your own open source code uh that should be already enough being adaptable and keep learning building exposure and networking key aspects for web industry. I agreed. Um, so rightly said, Sophia, I think you like the system in some cases. Yeah, that's basically it.

Um, okay. Then, uh, keywords in the job description, keywords in your CV, the more the better, but don't get too repetitive. Uh, if you can, um, change the wording a little bit, that's the best. Uh but basically yeah you I'd say that typically job descriptions especially now in the area of charge they're all kind of like written by AI they look all the same. So I would say for the exercise to understand what to write in your CV if you're applying again I'm coming back to the smart contract development uh opportunity there's quite a lot of those jobs posted on job boards you just pick up let's say five and you look into job descriptions and you can see what they're looking for

and typically they're asking for the same things so then you know what to write in your CV if you have done something similar in any other area of development just write about it. If you have done uh something even in smart contract development that's even better. If not then explain how you maybe in a cover letter for example explain how uh you can cover that part. Um if you have studied something like that or if you have built your own open source code and you know the principles of it. So yeah that that's kind of like the the main idea. Um use quantifiable metrics. Um yeah, this is not always applicable but try to come up with at least one uh

bullet point that would be highlighted that would highlight your experience in numbers or percentage. So for example, I don't know covered technical depth and uh boosted the uh I don't know some rate for 999% something like that. It's really hard for me to come up with metrics for software engineering. But I know that if you are for example infrastructure engineering, you um can be responsible for uh the platform being uh always up um always online and that might be um a metric. Um also if you for example implemented a certain um idea and then the user retention rate grew up that also could be an achievement. So um

think about and you can also try to ideulate this metric with CHBT just ask okay that was my job that what I was doing uh can you tell me to think about what are the quantifiable metrics I can use for this specific job and then it will give you an idea and then typically you will be like oh actually that's true I remember when I implemented that feature together with my team then this rate have grown up for example and is yeah I just mentioned about chat GBT So you can use AI tools and I would recommend you to do that and I do it every day. Uh but just make sure that your CV is written in your own style because you can clearly see when Chad GBT writes it for you especially when there is long dashes like those

guys. Um uh where is it? But this this is a short one. I'm not sure how to make the long one. I think I can make it on another keyboard if I change that. Uh no, this is actually an under um under kind of like highlighting. Anyway, you probably understood me. Uh if uh that's kind of like a chbt sign. Also having emojis is chbettish very much. Uh also when you are separating it into bullet points and those bullet points start with the kind of like a description first. Actually this one is chbt written uh this kind of

like starting with emojis pops to recognize open source contributions and then the the description follows this all is chargen I feel so and also those long dashes are there so this is kind of like um post that could have been written by charge uh but uh yeah I personally don't like it and I try to always rephrase it somehow to make sure that it doesn't sound like um AI written. Um you can also what I did uh for my personal work is that I customized charge GBT. You can do it in a paid version. You can just uh let as many adjectives and adverbs into

customization as possible about yourself and then it will write it in your own style. And that actually works. it it gives me a much better text than just a generic uh JGBT. I will go through a couple of comments uh that appeared over the time. Do web three companies use applicant tracking systems and should we optimize our CVs for that? Yes, they do. Um and uh actually the next slide is about that. Uh this is the tool that I recommend you to use. It's called Resume AI and it's actually helping you to write your resume and uh I'm just gonna second I need to make it smaller and then I'll open it

up. Yeah. Um the link doesn't work which is interesting. Maybe not. Yeah. So basically uh this tool will uh write a resume for you. you can use the AI pre-built tool um that will help you to create the bully points for example and they are already coming with quantifiable metrics uh but um what I did for example I uh did my own version so I wrote the text by myself the tool is completely free you don't need to pay for anything um you have to pay by points uh for those bullet points creation but I use just chibt and use

this format in order to create my own regime and that's absolutely free and I don't utilize any points that are given by the platform. So um and this is the the format that is readable. It's very much American um style uh because they typically prefer those kind of like black and white uh up to bottom rums and that's something that is readable by the ATSs as well by the applicant tracking system. So this is like the perfect example of what you can feed into applicant tracking system and it will take the text exactly the way how it should take. So uh that's why I would definitely recommend you to use that especially for software engineering like

I would um say for designers sometimes you have to be creative about the style of your resume but the problem is that sometimes your resume cannot be readable uh correctly by the systems and that's why I would still recommend you to use rather include your portfolio link where you can be as creative as you want uh but keep the resume strict and and black and white. Um, and this is yeah, there's a video about how the resume should look like. Um, so that you have less than five words per bullet, then we need to do better. This is the guy that I told you about that we all have to follow.

Uh, Jerry Lee, he's a creator of consulting AI tool, the free uh, resume AI builder. So I would definitely um advise you to go through those links and and see that uh for yourself how it works and um also about the ATS's coming back to those examples of metal labs. Uh for example you can see that they are working with a company called Ashb. Uh this is an ATS system. Uh then I also checked today that alchemy works with uh alchemy careers works with uh greenhouse if I'm not mistaken which is another ATS

system. So they all like all big companies. Uh let me see. Yeah you can see it here that it got us redirected to greenhouse. Um so all those big companies are working typically with ATS systems. If we talk about very small companies then typically they have notion which is obviously not trackable anyhow. So this is all um very kind of like manual job that they are all doing. Um can you talk about what it is like in the recruiter side if you have 100 plus applicants for the role? How do you screen them and what would give an candidate an edge or are all candidates evaluated or just the first 50 for

example? I've been into this situation in web two startups, not in web three. So can't really say much about web three recruitment because I've been always kind of like working on the handhole where I had to reach out to the candidates rather than they reached out to them to to me. Uh but when I was working in the web two company, we were sometimes we had like 150 applicants over the night and then I would wake up in the morning and then I was like, "Oh my god, I need to look through this." So I know that for example the company that I used to work for smart recruiters they were already trying to build things with AI and they would give me an AI score of the applicant. So basically the key words that are in the job description if

they're matched with the keywords in the CV. uh not sure if I I don't recall this to be a feature in Greenhouse uh or in other ATS systems, but I'm pretty sure that it is now a feature because AI is literally everywhere. So that's why I had this suggestion um here that keywords in the job description are keywords in your CV and the more the better because um you have to kind of like um also go through the machine basically. Um, so, um, I'd say that, yeah, this is a good one, uh, about the referral. The referrals will always go first. Um, then sometimes recruiters

just go for the first 50 or the last 50. It it really I never know what is going on behind the screen and what how the recruiters are evaluating that but um it is um it depends on them basically uh what they would prefer and what they would um go for. Something I I want to mention is about also related to cyber security uh side. So people prefer to pass by referral because a lot of North Korean hacker can come uh into your process and then basically enter into your company and just um do some and your company will be closed. So actually is

one of the thing um that happen in two big company in web3 and so they just hire by referral basically. Yeah that is actually true. Um there is a lot of North Korean hackers um that are in the space that are trying to fish into the interviews. We uh I remember uh before I left uh Missing Link, the the web 3 agency that I used to work for, we had a candidate um and we have like a video of this interview. he forgot to switch off um the so the recruiter left the interview and this guy stayed and we didn't

understand why for another like 15 to 30 seconds and then he started talking in um another language which was not English and then he moved somehow inaccurately like this with his uh arm and um it the he had an AI mask he had an AI mask of a European person As soon as he moved his uh arm like this, he uh his face was different, completely different. And uh it was obvious that it happened um to us that we got kind of like scammed by um North Korean hacker who pretended to come from Poland and wore this kind of like Eastern European AI mask on his face. Um yeah, that that

happens. my my friend uh the company of my friend which is a big like top top two uh of big lending protocol and actually for 30 on 30 applicants uh interviewing um five of them were North Korean so it's a a a huge ratio I mean yeah that's coming back to the point of the very first slide that you have to build credibility through your uh social presence, through your GitHub contributions because that will actually confirm that you are a human. Uh because all those North Korean hackers, they

have um their GitHub contributions do not make sense. They're just copy pasted code from somewhere else. Uh their social media presence, there is none. Uh their for example LinkedIn profiles, they are stealing them from other people. Um and then they just uh use their um their profiles basically. Um so yeah, there's quite uh quite a lot of things that they're doing in a very nasty way. Um but you just have to be different from that I'd say.

Um I'll go a little bit further because we are already one and a half one hour 15 minutes talking and I want to uh give you some free time uh because we still have a couple of slides left. Um so here is about the cover letter because uh it's always a debate. Do I need a cover letter? Do I not need a cover letter? There's a lot of recruiters that say no you don't need a cover letter. This is stupid. Never send it. I do recommend writing a cover letter but it has to be written correctly because it may boost your chances of getting the first interview. Uh my personal example when I was looking for a job something like two years ago three years ago when uh I was

laid off from Tenderin from the company in the Cosmos ecosystem I found an interesting opportunity of a tech recruiter at a company called Serotonin which is a web 3 marketing agency very famous one um but the thing is that they are based in the US and I'm based in Europe what to do I've applied and in my cover letter I had two paragraphs uh why am made the best choice for this job. So I described uh here you can see those two paragraphs, those two suggestions. So in the first paragraph I described that I have all the expertise that they need for this role. I've hired for similar profiles that they are looking for. So I'm aware of everything. The only problem is that I am based in Germany back then. Um, so I but I'm okay

working according to the US time zone because my current job is actually uh working with the US quite a lot. Uh, basically four out of five days I was working on a timet from 12:00 p.m. to 1000 p.m. my time. So I already know how to work according to at least New York time zone. Uh, I don't mind doing that later on. So um yeah I I'm fine and they actually invited me to the interview and when I asked them about this they said yeah we actually read your cover letter and we are fine with you being based in Europe as long as you can cover our time zone uh for the for New York. So people actually read your cover letter but

again it has to be written in a good way. It has it shouldn't be anything robotic. It shouldn't be, "Dear sir, madam, with this cover letter and with this application, may I apply for your job, blah blah blah." It has to be um a cover letter that just makes sense. And it's going to be an accompaniment to your document uh to your CV rather than uh sorry, rather than a copy of your resume. And if you have a gap in your um in your experience, if you have something to say uh where you can't there is no other space where you can say about this, use cover letter as an opportunity to talk to a recruiter and

explain uh why you should be hired for this job. So that's kind of like the main idea and keep it short. Uh you don't have to create it for the whole uh page. As I said, two paragraphs of I don't know two three sentences is absolutely enough. And here are some practical things. So here are the links to the job boards that you can use in order to apply for the jobs, search for the jobs. For example, if we go now to web3 career, which is probably the biggest uh job uh board um in the internet for web 3. Uh let's say we want to go for um smart contract development. Uh let me type it.

It's easier. Uh there is quite a lot of companies that are hiring. Uh so I would just go for uh let's say this company and read their um job opportunity. By the way, let me quickly see. Oh no. Uh sometimes I have seen uh it's going to be really bad to say it uh because it's recorded. But when you apply, sometimes it asks you to write um Kim Jun so that you can confirm that you're not North Korean hacker. Maybe we can cut this part. But that's actually true that they're trying to do this um kind of like vibe check, I guess. But anyway,

what I wanted you to do is to search through the uh through those opportunities and for example find out uh what is required for this job so that you can make a better CV. Oh, something funny as well. Uh in web three um you don't know your salary like you have to to put an expectation of how much you want. It it's it's kind during the the first interview they asking how much do you want? That is true and um it's sometimes you really don't know and you really can't know because the company can offer you a very tiny bit but then they will be like okay but we have a lot of shares for

you. Uh sometimes they would be like I don't mind paying 250k base uh base is the salary that is like actual money because on top of the base you have bonus and token allocation and something else. also basis something that is guaranteed to you. Uh so you really don't know what I like about web 3 career website is that sometimes you can see the job in the job description some salaries. Um you probably can see it here. So for the senior software engineer for DYDX in New York they would pay something around that which is a very good salary I think even for New York which is quite an expensive city.

Um this is for a non senior software engineer. Sometimes it could be an estimate because you can see that the salary bracket is very uh random here like 150k is very much different from 250k. Uh but at least you can understand here for example this uh people pay 40 to 140k. This is definitely an estimate because it's a very broad range. Um so you would have to essentially have to decide for yourself uh how much money um you need to have comfortable life and um just just go for it and and uh say that out loud and see how the companies are going to react. Um US pays a lot compared to

others. That's correct. Uh most of the web three jobs uh require some years of experience. What about freshers through connections? will come. Uh that um I'll I'll explain in the next slide. Um yeah, some job platforms that you can um take a look at. I'm not going to go too deep into that. Some Telegram channels that you can follow. Also here, a very interesting part is those four five uh job boards that belong to the um uh investment funds. And basically they're uh posting uh the jobs of the startups that they invested into. So for example, if I want to go to Paradang

Drum Board, I will see there all the companies that they've invested into and all those jobs are posted here. If I'm not mistaken, these are all um the companies can um hire um sorry, the companies can post uh on those job boards for free. So that's why it is kind of like relatively easy for them to post and they prefer to do that uh versus a web free career website or any other website that you can see here because uh for that you have to pay and sometimes for example even a small startup they would prefer to hire someone from connections for free rather than pay I don't know $500 to $1,000 to be posted on web three job. So depends

um that's why I would always suggest to go for those kind of like job boards of the VC funds or uh of the ecosystems. I'll uh come to that in the next slide um to see uh because there that those job boards are typically the most updated and um yeah you can make sure that um those are relevant opportunities basically they are not outdated they are not uh fake ones. Um so yeah um and then yeah this is the next slide that I promised you to talk to talk about about the meetups about the events because one offline friend uh is sometimes more worth than 100 online connections on telegram or LinkedIn and

here are some recommendations to travel and I know that Seline is doing a great job in inviting you all to go to different summits conferences meetups because it actually works. I've been um my last two jobs, the tender mint job, I applied to that and I've been I went through the whole recruitment process and everything, but the last two jobs that I had after Tender Mint, um those are all through connections. My clients that I have right now as a freelancer, these are also my connections. Uh they know me personally, they even worked with me as well, so that was an kind of like an easy hire.

But uh typically uh I've been in talks with a couple of people during the conferences and they would be like yeah I actually like you. I would like to work with you. How do we proceed? So I I brought a couple of clients into my previous recruitment agency that I worked also through connections through the conferences basically and sometimes it feels like ah it cost a fortune to go there. uh if you book in advance and if you participate in different um communitydriven I don't know events or hacker houses or like Seline says uh in I saw a couple of posts in the group that there are some scholarships available for certain opportunities. So you can even fly somewhere for free. Um

I have to pay because I'm a recruiter. I'm not a developer. maybe I should become a developer to get those opportunities for free. But uh since I'm paying I just do things very much in advance. So in the beginning of the year or maybe even before the year starts I typically find out okay what are the opportunities I want to attend for sure. Uh right now I'm based next to Amsterdam. So uh whenever the early bird tickets fordam which is a conference for the Ethereum community in Amsterdam appeared I was the first one who bought it. Now the ticket costs €350 if I'm not mistaken. I bought it for 100 because it was super early bird ticket. Uh same with Prague. Uh two years ago I went to

Eve Prague for um I think I've paid 500 for accommodation, train tickets and uh also two conferences that I attended. All in all was 500 which is I think not a bad price. If Warso, I booked already an accommodation to go for if Warso in September and that costed me for a a whole apartment in the city center. It was €260 on Airbnb for a week. So, if you if you're early enough, you can afford yourself going to a conference or two. Um, you just have to choose wisely which one you want to go. If you want to sp more concentrate on local events, go

for it. if you want to attend something big like for example FCC in KHN uh which is going to be in in France and I thought that's going to be extremely expensive but I already booked my tickets and I already uh booked my flights as well and my accommodation and flights are going to be also under €500 something like €430 which is I feel a decent price for uh place expensive place like K for dev connect I would suggest to go for some volunteering or student tickets or hacking tickets. So, uh for for something that can help you to get the ticket there, maybe even like a hacker house to stay there also. But

um Argentina is not as expensive as for example um Denver, Colorado in the US or K in France. So potentially you can find um an opportunity to um to stay there for and and pay for yourself. Yeah. Uh usually I will let you know every time uh when we can have an opportunity uh for conference uh and if some people are interested in for a specific conference what I can do is talk with the organizer and negotiate for some free tickets uh to allow you to come and so on. So no worries about that. Usually you you will not pay anything. I I never pay something. Uh well yeah that here you

are. Here is the answer. Um if meanwhile you don't want to go to some big conferences, you don't have time um I don't know you you don't have energy then you can just attend your local meetups. And for those I would suggest to go to eventbrite, luma or meetup.com um websites and see what is happening in your region. Oh right now with event bright a lot of scam happen. So every time pass by lumo. Yes. Oh I didn't know that because I have one event. I'm kind of like helping out with uh some events and they're all post on event right.

Maybe I'll make a suggestion to to leave this platform. Good to know. Oh, please. Uh I I will go uh soon. Um but just u before I want to to say something related to scam especially on Telegram like I don't know if you have a slide about it probably. No, I don't have I I No. So, a lot of scam like you can be contacted uh by by people you don't know them. Um but they will um propose offer something attractive for you, never reply to to them. Um and it's going to happen a lot for you. Uh and sometimes people try uh to open a link and then um

connect your wallet and anything and and your your wallet is just drained. So that mean it's a you can't do anything. So never click on any link uh on Telegram. Be careful about about that when uh we offer you some money for doing something. Exactly. Yeah. Uh there is a lot of scam going on on Telegram, Twitter, um basically anywhere you can be reached. Uh even on LinkedIn, I know that there is a couple of um post a couple of messages uh being sent to the developers about a here is a GitHub coding task.

Please uh do this for us and then we will invite you to the interview. And it's a malware that you have to install on your computer and then uh yeah your computer is fully um drained basically not just your wallet but all your data that you have on your computer. So yeah it's um very important to be careful here. Well my my links are all uh going into the good websites so I'm not trying to drain you if you want to open them later. But uh yeah, you you definitely you have to be careful. And just two last slides uh regarding kind of like miscellaneous, what are the other things that you can try out um in Twitter or ex you can

search for the tweets where people get connected uh like this one for example. Sometimes I have them in my feed just coming up organically. And uh for example here the guy found the product design drop thanks to one of those uh tweets this time last year. So that's great to hear. Uh then uh follow the ecosystems on Twitter or the companies you are interested in. For example, web 3 privacy. If you're interested in privacy, they even build some kind of like a job board. I'm not sure if it's still working. Uh but I know that it worked by uh yeah let me check because they were working on some other initiatives. So might no it actually works. So um take a look at those uh

then um engage not only with companies but with individuals but we already covered that part that uh you have to be for example the paradigm CTO that I already mentioned told you about Gakon is his nickname on GitHub. or whatever. Um he's from time to time posting that he's looking for engineers for certain um for certain projects for a freelance for um maybe some uh I don't know some uh feedbacks for whatever. So uh you should definitely um have this person uh to you have to follow him.

Um and then the last part is yeah participating in Dows can lead you to a first job in web three or ambassadorship or whatever uh is that where the skills are not that much required or experience is not that much required um you can participate in that and you never know how this will uh where it will bring you uh take a look at the ecosystems rather than standalone companies for example Salana ecosystem has its own job board that is updated uh on a daily basis bas basically as you can see and these are all the drops that are uh in u Salana ecosystem available check where the VCs put their money uh because uh if uh there was a

round then definitely they're going to spend this money to expand teams and for example there is a misari um web page where you can see the fundraising data set but it's quite expensive so if only if you are really kind of like a data geek then you can buy this board. But what I like I have an easier suggestion for you is actually a telegram channel that is called one crypto feed and it tells you about the major things that are happening in crypto. Basically it just gives you the headline and the website where this uh news were posted and then uh you just go and read it through if you are interested in. So that's how I actually stay in the loop

with all the news that are happening in V3 because uh it is yeah sometimes I'm not having time um looking into Twitter when I'm on vacation for example. So this channel really helps me to know what is happening um the latest trends the latest news that are happening um uh within web 3. Don't forget about LinkedIn. Well, this is kind of like as you see the very last slide, the very last option. Uh, but people I know get hired through LinkedIn. For example, those guys from Uptop Search, they've been not sure about now, but they've been quite active on LinkedIn. And I know that they made a couple of hires through LinkedIn. I made a couple of

hires by searching through LinkedIn as well. So, it definitely happens um to be able to find a job in web 3 through such a traditional source as LinkedIn. And basically, that's it. Um it took way longer than we expected probably, but I hope you all uh really liked the uh presentation. I'm going to share this presentation um in the chat so that you will have access to all the links that uh you have to click for yourself and um yeah um have fun building new stuff. Um I think the most important thing here is to not stop uh

to to keep building to keep improving and then the opportunity will find you. Uh yeah, I wanted to showcase that. So you can use um scrap scrap email fender and the thing is when you are going to LinkedIn a specific profile you can get the email of the people in charge etc. It's a great way if you want to get in touch with the right pe the right people and the other thing just before leaving uh is about this thing you have access to it uh into the into into the notion so it's related to jobs and I list the best relevant company in web three and all they this job board so Sophia talk about the

system like for example liver um greenhouse house. So they are all using the same tools a bit. Um so yeah you can take a look at that and um be be aware that sometimes there's job listing here listed here are not available uh into into job boards. So just to let you know like your classic job board like this one web three etc. Yeah. I also like this uh drop stash uh website that is there. Um it's really cool because uh it actually scrapes it's I think uh I

believe they are actually based in Amsterdam. I know that they're going to be sponsoring if uh but basically they're scraping uh the new um jobs through the career from the careers website and they are posting that in in the um in their platform. So for example as I mentioned for web3.c career or cryptocurrencies jobs.co or something, you have to pay to be listed as a company, but uh and job stash uh they're just scraping it all and posting it um on their website. So yeah, you you as I said, if you want to uh look for something, you just go through all those links and something is going to be is going to be suitable for you for sure.

Thank you for this amazing session. uh it was uh full of insights for everyone who's discovering the space and yeah we will see again social later no reason and don't hesitate to reach out to her if you have any question I think absolutely uh you probably all know my telegram um account and now you also have my ex I actually yeah I can share my LinkedIn and my sorry I forgot to add those links um in the presentation, but this is my LinkedIn and uh my ex.com that I don't really use. I need to start using it more. But actually,

I'm building a website now. So, I think I'm going to be posting some um blog posts about hiring in web 3. Um so, keep following me. I I will post something soon. And um what else I wanted to send? add the telegram in case if you want to get in touch with me. I have an interview in three minutes. What? Um, it's for the egg ambassador program. So that's fine. Oh, okay. Okay. Okay.

It's not for a job. It's a chill. Gotcha. Cool. Thank you very much for attending this session. um really love the questions. They're all relevant and uh do not hesitate to reach out to me. Yeah, we'll put everything on YouTube uh and we'll let you know post in the on Telegram. Perfect. Thank you so much. Have a great evening and day to everyone. Bye-bye. Bye-bye. Tut. Bye.