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Excited to be in your inbox once again!
We’re going to keep the preamble short and sweet this time, because we have a pair of upcoming events we’re excited to tell you about.
Resume Workshop && Happy Hour
We’re teaming up with Brooksource for an evening designed to boost your professional presence.
Stick around for Happy Hour and rooftop networking! Or just come for that - we’re excited to see you anyway we can. :)
A team of expert recruiters from Brooksource will cover career best practices such as:
Resume Dos & Don’ts for every stage of your career
Pro tips on how to stand out on LinkedIn
Choose Your Path:
LinkedIn Review
Resume Redlining + Feedback
Headshots available to update your profile
Bring your resume (print it if you want detailed feedback!)
Tickets are free.
Indy Hackers Game Night at Elf n Moon
Back by popular demand! RSVP and come out Tuesday 6/17, 6pm - 10pm for games and networking with fellow tech folks.
Game night is hosted at Elf 'N Moon: a one-of-a-kind gaming + hobby store, and a premier spot for geeks in Indy. Look for Indy Hackers signage on tables towards the back when you come in!
We will gather at open, first-come-first-served tables in the main store area. Elf 'N Moon boasts an impressive, free-to-play collection of the latest board games -- and feel free to bring your own favorite tabletop game too.
Snacks and drinks (both alcoholic and non-alcoholic) are available for purchase, and outside food is welcome (you can totally order a pizza in).
Tickets are free. Register below.
More Upcoming Community Events
Carmel Code and Coffee - May 23 7–9am
Downtown Code and Coffee - May 23 7-9am
Fishers Code and Coffee - May 27 7-9am
Indy Virtual Code and Coffee [Online] - May 28 8-10am
Free Code Camp Indy - May 28 6pm - “Handling CSS layout with Typography" with Taylor Johnson
Broad Ripple Code and Coffee - June 4 7-9am
Central Indiana Linux Users Group - June 4 6pm
Indy .NET Consortium - June 4 6pm
BSides Ft Wayne Security Conference - June 7
Is there an event you would like to announce here? Let us know at newsletter@indyhackers.org and we’ll get it added to the calendar.
New on the Job Board
The IndyHackers job board is free to companies and the community. Our goal is to help as many community members as possible land jobs they love at companies based here in Indiana, growing the community of hackers throughout the state.
If your company is hiring, post your job here.
If you’re hunting for a job, the full job board is here or you can follow along in #jobs in our Slack. Or: Just reply to this email with what you’re looking for.
One Last Thing
We’re particularly stoked about our rooftop event in a few short weeks - the one that we’ve led this newsletter with.
Firstly, it’s rooftop party season here in Indiana, and Brooksource’s spot in Broad Ripple is a great venue for that sort of thing.
Secondly, and more important to our mission here at Indy Hackers, is it’s among our first forays into helping early and mid-career technology folks better launch or manage their careers.
We all know the software engineering hiring market is kind of weird right now, and filled with conflicting signals.
On one hand, our hosts at Brooksource are seeing an uptick in hiring requests from their recruiting clients.
That’s great!
Simultaneously, we’re still in a period where large tech companies are laying off staff - including engineering.
And smaller ones are doing so as well. I had a coffee chat recently with a local engineering leader that saw their company’s founder drop the entire engineering staff to vibe code their way instead.
We’ll see how that works out for them long-term (hint: I have my doubts), but it’s also not an isolated story.
How AI impacts engineer hiring - especially for early career folks! - remains murky.
Add in waves hands at the state of the world, let’s say macro-economic uncertainty, and there are a number of really fantastic software engineers on the market for far longer than they should be in a regular hiring environment.
Events like this we believe can help our friends be better prepared for the upswing that might be coming.
At the very least, the days of blithely stumbling from one job to another - like I’ve been lucky to do for most of my career - are probably over, at least for now.
Learning how to market yourself - how to put your best foot forward - has always mattered.
But in this market, it’s more important than ever.
So, join us in June.
For the summer rooftop, and for your career.
Here’s the big button to register for that event once again:
And, as a final note:
If it’s been a struggle, if you’ve been laid off, if it feels like you’ve been told “no” or had promising gigs ghost you over and over again, let me tell you something …
It’s not you. It’s never been you.
You’re not the problem. There’s nothing wrong with you.
As I’ve aged, I’ve realized - and have to constantly remind myself - that so much of life is luck, timing, and circumstance.
Keep trying.
Keep surviving.
Keep at it long enough for things to align for you.
They will.
You got this.
Go get it.
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