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The last few months were tiring. I hardly got any time for writing. I was busy
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preparing content for a workshop and talk. Hopefully I will get into my flow
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- soon. In this post I will try to answer most important question of our life,
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- “Employment!”. At conferences, IRC channels or even at the corner of a road , I
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- had requested people to suggest good employment opportunities for me. I am not
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- that extremely lucky fellow who has always landed on safe islands. My poor
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- experiences might help you to safe-guard yourself . I am happy that at least I
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- was able to knock the door of good companies. I am sharing a list of portals and
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- companies that I am following or followed in last few years. As a bonus point, I
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- will highlight some uncommon ways which helped me to invite new opportunities.
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- You should read this post if you are looking for ** Python + web + (remote OR
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+ soon. In this post I will try to answer one of the most important question of
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+ our life, “Employment!”. At conferences, IRC channels or even by the roadside , I
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+ had requested people to suggest good employment opportunities for me. I have not
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+ always been very lucky in finding greener pastures. I am writing this blog post
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+ so that you learn from my poor experience . I am happy that at least I was able
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+ to knock the door of good companies. I am sharing a list of portals and
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+ companies that I am following or have followed in last few years. As a bonus
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+ point, I will highlight some uncommon ways which helped me to invite new
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+ opportunities. You should read this post if you are looking for ** Python + web
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+ + (remote OR India)** related employment.
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* Disclaimer: I have not taken any money or any other type of bribes to advertise
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companies here.*
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#### Mailing lists
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- Mailing lists are good source to get notified for new job openings. In India,
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+ Mailing lists are a good source to get notified for new job openings. In India,
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there are a few active mailing lists managed by volunteers of that community.
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- Often Job emails are tagged with "[ JOB] " at the subject. I have configured my
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- mail client to collect all the mails with "[ JOB] " in their subject at a
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- dedicated folder of my mail client. This configuration helps me to pay dedicated
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+ Often Job emails are tagged with "[ JOB] " in the subject. I have configured my
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+ mail client to collect all the mails with "[ JOB] " in their subject in a
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+ dedicated folder of my mail client. This configuration helps me to pay steady
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attention to them. Your Hack May Vary.
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Below is a list of active Python communities of India.
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#### [ HasJobs] ( https://hasjob.co/ )
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- HasJob is easy to follow job portal. You will find jobs posted by emerging to
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+ HasJob is an easy to follow job portal. You will find jobs posted by emerging to
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well-established startups of India. I am following HasJobs since day one of my
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career. During my early days, I used to run a
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- [ bot] ( https://github.com/ultimatecoder/hasjobbot ) to apply all the latest
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- openings of the day. I am not using that tool now, but If you are interested in
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+ [ bot] ( https://github.com/ultimatecoder/hasjobbot ) to apply to all the latest
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+ openings of the day. I am not using that tool now, but if you are interested in
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making that bot compatible with the new HasJob, please create an issue
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[ here] ( https://github.com/ultimatecoder/hasjobbot/issues ) to show your interest.
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I am happy to hack on this project again.
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#### [ Python now] ( https://www.pythonnow.com/ )
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This job board is less known, but I find it effective for remote or visa
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+ sponsored positions. Openings are mostly from companies based out of Europe or
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#### [ Github profile] ( https://github.com/ultimatecoder )
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- There were good amount of pinch from recruiters, employers via my Github
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- profile. Where Github jobs has not helped me much, this worked for me. I would
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- reach you. In my case most Github pinch were targeted to common audience. May be
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- sending them opportunity emails. I don't consider anything wrong in the crawling
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- way, but one should spend enough time in identifying my expertise. Contributing
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- to open source projects for inviting better opportunities is a long subject
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- which might be a good fit for an entire blog post.
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+ There were a good amount of invitations from recruiters, employers via my Github
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+ profile. While Github jobs has not helped me much, this worked for me. I would
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+ recommend adding your email address on your Github profile. It helps people to
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+ reach out to you. In my case, most of the Github invitations for employment were
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+ targeted to a common audience. May be people are crawling Github profiles from
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+ popular open source projects and sending them opportunity emails. I don't
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+ consider anything wrong in the crawling way, but one should spend enough time in
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+ identifying my expertise. Contributing to open source projects for inviting
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+ better opportunities is a long subject which might be a good fit for an entire
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+ blog post.
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### Not so strongly recommended
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- ###### Proofreader: [ Chandan Kumar] ( https://twitter.com/chkumar246 )
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+ ###### Proofreader: [ Chandan Kumar] ( https://twitter.com/chkumar246 ) , [ Pranaya Tomar ] ( mailto:[email protected] )
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