Find a company that you want to work for and then go on the site and read through the company blog. Hopefully those posts will be authored by someone and not just the &#x27;company&#x27;. Then find that person on social media (twitter&#x2F;google&#x2F;linkedin) and use that to reach out to them via email or twitter (not everyone reads their linkedin because of the spam) referencing something interesting they&#x27;ve been working on. That&#x27;s an effective way to get an &#x27;in&#x27; if you don&#x27;t have a network there already.<p>Also find out if they&#x27;re hosting any events or speaking at any and attend. The process is a lot easier once you&#x27;ve actually met someone who works there.<p>Though I&#x27;m a developer now I got my last job in Sales&#x2F;VC when I went to see the founder speak at an event, he intro&#x27;d me to the hiring manager who rejected me initially as I didn&#x27;t have a start-up network (the job was finding start-ups deal-flow for funding). I got that job as I said I could create a network in 3 days and proved it.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;tech-london&#x2F;not-a-hacker-or-a-hipster-how-i-got-my-first-start-up-job-922399a7dfbb#.j64iauh0e" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;tech-london&#x2F;not-a-hacker-or-a-hipster-how...</a><p>I agree with you about the spam. I&#x27;ve been gradually disabling my Linkedin as a result.