LinkedIn is a professional networking site designed to help people make business connections, share their experiences and resumes, and find jobs. As a software engineer, I find LinkedIn to be a great platform on which to explore new opportunities in my industry. But also as a software engineer, I naturally want to find the most effective way to achieve this goal.

Most people would now say, _“Just, use LinkedInconnect to as many people as you can, and then write a post with your CV.” _Or, _“Dude, have you never heard of recruitment companies?” _While these are legit options, they are also a bit uninspiring and so boring! What I really want is a solution that will help me shine and stand out from the thousands of other software engineers that are looking for jobs on LinkedIn.

Let’s find a job with style :)

A great way to achieve this, I decided, was to demonstrate my skills. I thought what better way to do this than by creating a bot that automatically connects to other people in the industry, whether they be other software engineers or HR employees of software companies. The idea was that, after they accepted my invitation to connect, I could then send the following message automatically:

Hey ,

Thank you for connecting!

My name is . I’m a software engineer, and I’m looking for my next challenge :)

I’m sending this message using a LinkedIn bot I’ve created in NodeJS that wraps the LinkedIn unofficial API.

You can have a look at the source code in my GitHub.

You can also view my CV here:

Thanks,

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