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Location
Brussels, Belgium
Work
UX Engineer, Product Manager, sometimes Designer at Self
All my offers came from recruiters, and they usually work with mid or senior devs (I would say starting from 3 years of experience). I've also been extremely lucky as I entered the healthcare tech sector a couple of years ago, by complete chance, and as you can imagine it's working out so far.
I'm based in Belgium, I don't know if it makes a difference, but it's not like the economy hasn't been hit over here as well.
One difference is that due to European-style welfare almost no one has been laid off, but rather put on paid furlough. And companies (especially SMB) received a lot of support to try and keep money flowing.
I'd say reach out to as many recruiters as possible (LinkedIn), and look for jobs in healthcare and remote working-related companies.
Thanks Manuele! Interesting that you bring up healthcare, it's definitely a field I'm trying to focus on breaking into, since it seems to be one of the few sectors in the US reliably hiring right now--and because I want my work to have a real, positive impact!
Any advice for pitching myself to recruiters, specifically in the healthcare space? I'm specifically interested in healthcare data pipelines and backend problems, but am a little unsure of what hiring managers in healthcare-tech might be looking for in an engineer.
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Location
Brussels, Belgium
Work
UX Engineer, Product Manager, sometimes Designer at Self
In smaller shops (eg. a startup with only a handful of engineers) what I've seen is that the final client wants to see that you have worked on a project that in some ways resembles the product they are working on. For example, their product has a lot of data visualizations, and you have worked with data before. Or, their product is mostly mobile oriented and you have mostly worked on mobile interfaces. A lot of it, sucks to say, depends more on the feelings of the hiring manager rather than on a rigorous process.
Bigger companies may have better decision making, and will try to look into your skills more deeply. They may value "potentiality" more than "he/she has already done something like this".
Remember that a recruiter is usually on your side. The more people they place the more commission they earn. Give them something about you that helps them pitch you to the clients (something you specialize on for example). And don't say "I'm looking for a job, please help with anything", but "I have an unexpected opening, I'm looking for opportunities in the XYZ field/tech stack/..."
All my offers came from recruiters, and they usually work with mid or senior devs (I would say starting from 3 years of experience). I've also been extremely lucky as I entered the healthcare tech sector a couple of years ago, by complete chance, and as you can imagine it's working out so far.
I'm based in Belgium, I don't know if it makes a difference, but it's not like the economy hasn't been hit over here as well.
One difference is that due to European-style welfare almost no one has been laid off, but rather put on paid furlough. And companies (especially SMB) received a lot of support to try and keep money flowing.
I'd say reach out to as many recruiters as possible (LinkedIn), and look for jobs in healthcare and remote working-related companies.
Thanks Manuele! Interesting that you bring up healthcare, it's definitely a field I'm trying to focus on breaking into, since it seems to be one of the few sectors in the US reliably hiring right now--and because I want my work to have a real, positive impact!
Any advice for pitching myself to recruiters, specifically in the healthcare space? I'm specifically interested in healthcare data pipelines and backend problems, but am a little unsure of what hiring managers in healthcare-tech might be looking for in an engineer.
I think there are two kind of things that happen:
In smaller shops (eg. a startup with only a handful of engineers) what I've seen is that the final client wants to see that you have worked on a project that in some ways resembles the product they are working on. For example, their product has a lot of data visualizations, and you have worked with data before. Or, their product is mostly mobile oriented and you have mostly worked on mobile interfaces. A lot of it, sucks to say, depends more on the feelings of the hiring manager rather than on a rigorous process.
Bigger companies may have better decision making, and will try to look into your skills more deeply. They may value "potentiality" more than "he/she has already done something like this".
Remember that a recruiter is usually on your side. The more people they place the more commission they earn. Give them something about you that helps them pitch you to the clients (something you specialize on for example). And don't say "I'm looking for a job, please help with anything", but "I have an unexpected opening, I'm looking for opportunities in the XYZ field/tech stack/..."
Finally: dev.to/mjsarfatti/comment/i94a