# Career advice for developers on building a public professional presence

DevFeed: [Career advice for developers on building a public professional presence](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/invest-in-yourself-be-searchable-39016.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://blog.jgrossi.com/2018/invest-in-yourself-be-searchable/>)

Author: Junior Grossi

Published: 2018-03-05T03:00:48Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Junior Grossi](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/junior-grossi.md>)

Topics: [GitHub](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/github.md>), [Open Source](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/open-source.md>), [PHP](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/php.md>), [Web](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/web.md>)

Tags: [careers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/careers.md>), [github](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/github.md>), [open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source.md>), [php](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/php.md>), [work](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/work.md>)

## AI overview

This opinion article offers career advice for developers and engineers on building a public professional presence. It recommends making skills and work visible through activities such as maintaining a GitHub account, contributing to open source, blogging, and speaking at conferences.

## Source excerpt

Being really good in your field is important, but more important than that is to seem to be good. Invest in yourself. Be searchable! How many times did you search your name on Google? How many times did you search some keywords related to you? Did you like the results you got? Can them be ... Continue reading Invest in yourself. Be searchable!