Building A Career Without Applying To Jobs (From An Eng Director)

Daniel O'Shea is a Director of Engineering at X (formerly Twitter) and a 3x exited founder. He founded Laskie in 2020, a platform to help people understand the job market, find full-time work, and take on moonlight gigs. Daniel built a robust job-matching platform with tens of thousands of candidates. Laskie was the first acquisition by Elon Musk at X (Twitter) in 2023.

Throughout his professional career, Daniel has never applied to a job. Instead, he leveraged his network to find opportunities where he had an unfair advantage, and then continued to seek opportunities from his jobs and professional network. Almost all engineers suck at this: sending connection requests on LinkedIn is not enough.

In this talk, Daniel will share tactical advice to better leverage your own network, along with lessons from his professional journey. He'll also share data from seeing 1000s of engineers looking for jobs as part of running Laskie.

• Daniel on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danieloshea22/
• Daniel on X: https://twitter.com/oshea

Additional expert networking resources:

• "How to network effectively in a tech event?"
• "How do you network effectively within a company?"
• [Masterclass] How To Build Deep Relationships Quickly In Tech