Get Noticed
Widen the circle of people who know what you do
Want more opportunities to be seen? Describe how your work, interests, and relationships put you in contact with new people and ideas. Get Noticed suggests practical ways to become more visible and create more opportunities for meaningful connections.
See what Get Noticed gives you
Real output from an actual run on the description below. Part of the result is shown; nothing is reworded.
The description
Software engineer, WFH, same team for 3 years. Live in Denver. Go to the gym, cook, watch TV. Small tight friend group. Work is fine but I feel invisible professionally. Want: better job opportunities, interesting collaborators, maybe a co-founder someday.
Real run, 2026-10-08 — one of the tool's own built-in examples.
How new people reach you now
The professional exposure you described runs through one team you have been on for three years. You mentioned the gym, cooking, and watching TV, but did not describe those as contexts where you meet new people or share what you do professionally.
Ways to widen it
- Put Work Where It Can Travel — first step: Write one paragraph about a problem you solved recently — not polished, just accurate — and decide where you would put it if you were going to publish it.
- Enter One In-Person Technical Space — first step: Search Meetup or a local tech Slack for one Denver group in your stack or a domain adjacent to where you want to go, and check when it next meets.
- Make Your GitHub Readable — first step: Open your GitHub profile today and read it as a stranger would — if it does not communicate what you do and what you are interested in, edit the bio first.
In a Nutshell
- When
- When useful things keep happening to other people and you want more chances at them.
- You give
- Where your life puts you in contact with new people or ideas, and what you would like more chances to encounter.
- You get
- A plain read of how new people and ideas currently reach you, what narrows that, what already works, and three to five practical ways to widen it.
- The edge
- It works only from what you supplied — no luck score, no percentage, and no claim about what any move will produce.
Good to Know
- Say what you actually do, not what you think sounds impressive — every move has to connect to something you supplied
- Leaving a field blank is fine; it will say so rather than invent an answer
- Nothing here predicts a result. A move is worth doing if it would still be worth doing when nobody unexpected replies
- If a suggestion names a specific event or venue you never mentioned, that is a bug — tell us
Questions people ask
How do I get noticed at work when I work remotely?
Make your work findable by people who don't already know you: write up one problem you solved, show up at one recurring event in your field, and make introductions for others. Visibility grows from the paths that put your work in front of new people.
Is this about self-promotion?
No. It looks at how new people and opportunities currently reach you and suggests small ways to widen that.
How is it different from Before Hello?
Get Noticed widens how opportunities find you in general; Before Hello prepares you to approach one specific person.