Leveraging your personal brand professionally

All of this may sound like a full-time job of helping others and that it will not bring any benefit to you and your career. So let’s take a look at how doing everything we’ve discussed can actually help you professionally.

Trust leads to opportunity

First of all, trust is the best way to create opportunities and get amazing positions. The best-paying, most interesting, and challenging positions in the market are offered to people that we trust. When someone has an interesting position inside their company or is working on an interesting project and needs help from someone, they will invite someone they trust to be part of it. The same thing happens inside companies. When teams, managers, and developers need help to hire someone, they will look for people that they trust. When you build trust with other developers, managers, and people from different companies, you increase the chance that someone that trusts you will...