Do you have friends that work for companies she would like to work at? I.e. at place where I work we have incentives for seeking out new coleagues. The best thing about this, that when your friend tells his manager something like &quot;You know how we have rack open for 4 months? I think I know a person.&quot; you usually bypass the HR guy skimming through 100 aplications and maybe thinking &quot;C++ &amp; Matlab? Who needs that?&quot; or something like that.<p>If you have no friends that would help you with this, I would suggest going to local conferences and talking to speakers. On local linux group meeting, I had a conversation that literary went<p>me: &quot;Hey, awesome presentation, do you think I could get your slides?&quot;<p>speaker: &quot;I don&#x27;t think I want to hang them over, I might have divulged too much about our company internals so I don&#x27;t really want to have it on the internet.&quot;<p>me: &quot;That is a pity, good I was taking notes :-)&quot;<p>speaker: &quot;Well, if you liked it, you might want to work for us, we have a junior position open.&quot;<p>(Disclaimer, I was 22, still doing my masters at the time, your conversation might be different)