Since launching Lucid I've had a surprising amount of interest from friends and previous colleagues wanting to join me.
I've also had a huge increase in the number of people reaching out for advice regarding how to land a job in the current market.
Let's face it, it's way harder to snag an entry-level position today than even a year ago. Organizations are becoming significantly more selective in hiring, and they have to with how pervasive AI has become.
When I chat with people and ask their goals or target roles, I almost always get the same response: "I'm open to anything." Personally, I think this is a horrible response.
If you have software engineering, data engineering, data analytics, and 10 other things on your resume, you're making it almost impossible for yourself to get a job in any of those things.
Put yourself in the shoes of a hiring manager. Knowing how competitive the market is, you would want to hire someone with a relatively deep understanding (even if you're junior) of a subject area.
And, as the individual being hired (especially if you're junior), you should want to be hired into a role with 1-2 responsibilities to allow yourself to begin establishing your industry expertise.
As a mentor of mine told me many years ago, it's great to have a conversational understanding of many things, but if you want to progress, you need to really dig in and become a subject matter expert in 1-2 things.
I know it's a tough market, and I remember being a junior, but if you're not positioning yourself for success and casting your net too wide, you're going to have a tough time.
I'm more than happy to assist if there's anything I can do to help some folks.