Time to get your game face on. I&#x27;m a CEO, we&#x27;re hiring but not in your skill area. Having interviewed a lot of candidates lately and looked at many more, I wanted to give you my 2c on getting into extremely hirable shape fast:<p>Update your LinkedIn profile as someone has mentioned already. Sweeten it up, get a great looking but professional profile pic up there, get kudos from friends, etc.<p>Do the online profile cleanse. Make sure everything is very professional looking. Remove any controversial political views or disparaging remarks about previous employers. Looks like this blog post is anonymous. Keep it that way and make sure that email address isn&#x27;t associated with anything. Employers will google your email address. They&#x27;ll even drag your profile pic into google image search, so the cleanse includes anywhere that appears.<p>Get code into GitHub asap and make your profile there sound like you&#x27;re a team player, super positive, super keen, all that good stuff.<p>Stop blogging about how tough your life is and don&#x27;t ever mention it in conversation. Whether you like it or not (personally I don&#x27;t), that idiotic quote in American Beauty from the motivational tapes is true: &quot;In order to be successful, one must project an image of success at all times.&quot;. Yup, that came from the real-estate King himself. Seriously douchey and seriously true.<p>What employers care about is that you&#x27;re going to be a great addition to the team, make the rest of the team happier and more productive and be super productive yourself. That&#x27;s pretty much it besides not being a liability or a risk. Hence the profile cleanse, positivity, demonstration of ability by getting your code into GitHub and so on.<p>Then go forth and market the hell out of yourself with tons of positive vibe. What I&#x27;m telling you here is pretty much to do very much the opposite of what you&#x27;re doing. Absolutely don&#x27;t beg. You may get charity but I don&#x27;t think you&#x27;re going to be happy with it considering your salary expectations and family situation. You&#x27;re going to want to land a job earning $75K upwards with excellent benefits in a stable and growing business. That means they need to think that you&#x27;re awesome, so make yourself awesome and go and kill it.<p>Best of luck!!<p>~Mark.