Starting a series covering my adventures in developer land. I began a project in the winter of 2024/2025, the idea was sparked when I noticed the process i use for getting developer jobs was vastly different from what I saw friends or people on social media doing to land jobs.
Ever since COVID, the tech job market has felt like either feast or famine, with this year's drought being particularly brutal. Articles in the New York Times, YouTube videos galore hilighting the onslaught of developers despratley trying to land jobs in this market.
It wasn't until the last two years that I realised I haven't applied to a job in years, most of my jobs came to me through social media and connecting with recruiters. LinkedIn was especially fruituful for this, landing me everything from w2 full-time jobs to 1099 contracts, to C2C opportunities.
Whenever you think of CRM software (i.e., salesforce), we normally think of massive corporations and large outbound sales rooms cold calling like it's a scene out of Wolf of Walstreet. Businesses use CRM software because it helps them be more effecient, which is supossed to be the point of all technology.
If large corperations can do it, why cant individuals? When you go to apply for a job, it's a form of marketing, if you succeed, that first paycheck is the sale. So I decided to create Klesis, an application for automating outbound job hunting efforts to help people trying to land software developer jobs.
Today's efforts centered around improving the LinkedIn automation to search posts by keywords, search people by titles & company, commenting on posts, and reading/sending messages on autopilot.