I stopped applying and started showing my work — now recruiters come to me

I used to apply for every dev job I could find. Now I haven’t applied in six months, because recruiters message me. What changed? I started making things public.

Here’s what I used to do: scroll LinkedIn, filter for “remote” or “hybrid,” tweak my CV 20 times, and get ghosted after two interviews.

Then I burned out. I was tired of being filtered out by systems that didn’t understand my skillset. So I picked one thing I could control: visibility.

I started posting short threads on LinkedIn about how I solve problems in code. Screenshots. GitHub commits. “Here’s how I debugged a memory leak in a legacy API today” type stuff. Not flashy. Just honest.

At first, no one cared. Then people started liking it. Then someone from a fintech company DM’d me and said: “We’re hiring — want to chat?”

That’s how I got my current job. No application. No recruiter wall. Just proof that I can do the job.

Tech is still about skills. But if no one can see yours, they assume you don’t have them. Build in public, even in small ways. That’s how you stop chasing jobs.