Like many other jobs networking and knowing someone might give you an edge.
Be it collaborating in opensource, establishing a presence in a community, having a great website, even going around to conferences and introducing yourself to people or even being super active in the right niche of Twitter.
I recently got "half" of a job offer at a wedding just because I was there talking with an ex client (now friend) of the groom (which is a friend of mine and a dev as well).
PyCon Italy, a tech conference, has a specific recruiting track and I witnessed in the past people getting job offers (or at least the prospect of one) right there at the conference. Check it out: pycon.it/en/recruiting/
It's hard but falling in line with "the others" (for example at a job fair) won't easily give you an edge. Think about it: you're a recruiter at a medium size company (let's skip the big ones), maybe woke up on the wrong side of the bed, you have to drive to the middle of nowhere where the fair is held, you setup your booth with the help of the conference organizers and then sit there for two days while random people swing by and give you their CV, you smile even if you're getting bored sometimes, the fair is finished, you go back to the office on monday and you realized you collected 87 CVs, you do not know any of these people, no one at your company knows anyone of these people. How do you sort them out? Maybe you remember four or five of them because you had exceptionally pleasant interactions or because they made you laugh about something (but maybe they didn't because most devs are not the best social animals), you wrote down their names so you can check their CVs first and see if they also know their shit, you discard half of those four people, you still have 80 or so CVs to go through, you start from the ones that on paper have the most education and/or experience, you send the CVs of the first ten/fifteen to the tech lead, the tech team respond saying they are interested in half of them, after all they are just looking for one junior dev because in the meantime they found a few great candidates through contacts of their own, the tech team tells you they'll eventually ask you more CVs in case none of the candidates pan out. If you're lucky your CV in is in those top 15, if not, your CV sits in a folder until the next round, maybe. Better be one of those contacts in this scenario ;-)
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Like many other jobs networking and knowing someone might give you an edge.
Be it collaborating in opensource, establishing a presence in a community, having a great website, even going around to conferences and introducing yourself to people or even being super active in the right niche of Twitter.
I recently got "half" of a job offer at a wedding just because I was there talking with an ex client (now friend) of the groom (which is a friend of mine and a dev as well).
PyCon Italy, a tech conference, has a specific recruiting track and I witnessed in the past people getting job offers (or at least the prospect of one) right there at the conference. Check it out: pycon.it/en/recruiting/
Even asking the right questions can give you an edge: dev.to/michaelgv/comment/4lja
It's hard but falling in line with "the others" (for example at a job fair) won't easily give you an edge. Think about it: you're a recruiter at a medium size company (let's skip the big ones), maybe woke up on the wrong side of the bed, you have to drive to the middle of nowhere where the fair is held, you setup your booth with the help of the conference organizers and then sit there for two days while random people swing by and give you their CV, you smile even if you're getting bored sometimes, the fair is finished, you go back to the office on monday and you realized you collected 87 CVs, you do not know any of these people, no one at your company knows anyone of these people. How do you sort them out? Maybe you remember four or five of them because you had exceptionally pleasant interactions or because they made you laugh about something (but maybe they didn't because most devs are not the best social animals), you wrote down their names so you can check their CVs first and see if they also know their shit, you discard half of those four people, you still have 80 or so CVs to go through, you start from the ones that on paper have the most education and/or experience, you send the CVs of the first ten/fifteen to the tech lead, the tech team respond saying they are interested in half of them, after all they are just looking for one junior dev because in the meantime they found a few great candidates through contacts of their own, the tech team tells you they'll eventually ask you more CVs in case none of the candidates pan out. If you're lucky your CV in is in those top 15, if not, your CV sits in a folder until the next round, maybe. Better be one of those contacts in this scenario ;-)