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Akshay Dhingra • Edited

When I began looking for a job after I graduated from a coding bootcamp, I did in fact contact and met with a tech recruiter. We talked on the phone a handful of times, sent several emails back and forth, and met in person for coffee once. They were unable to help me find a job from their network simply because they work with larger companies and usually want at least 1 year of experience. They usually also have devs take a competency assessment to grade your skill level in your area of focus/expertise, and they want to see an above average score in order for you to be considered for a role if you have less than 1 year experience. The recruiter did not help me land my first engineering job.

I would recommend going through your own network and reaching out to them to see if their company is hiring. I had already landed my first engineering job that I had gotten the old fashion way (linkedin applications and coding challenges) when one of my friends reached back out to me to say they had an opening at double the salary. I got the new job and could not be any happier with how everything turned out.

tl;dr

Reach out to friends and acquaintances!