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# The Post That Changed My Career
- URL: https://www.liamdarmody.ai/the-post-that-changed-my-career/
- Published: 2026-06-14T16:52:07.000Z
- Updated: 2026-07-26T18:54:26.000Z
- Description: A LinkedIn post got me a job offer I never applied for, at a company that didn't know my resume existed. Here's exactly what happened.
- Author: Liam Darmody
- Tags: Personal Branding & Linkedin Strategy

I call LinkedIn a serendipity manifestation engine. It's one of the best platforms out there for creating your own luck, and posting on it quite literally changed my career.

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Here's the story.

After 18 years in operations and RevOps roles, I was invited to interview for a Director of RevOps position, a role that lined up perfectly with my background. Straightforward enough.

But partway through the interview, the CMO said something I didn't expect:

"I have something else I think you'd like to do even more. We're looking to build an employer brand and talent marketing function, and with your sales ops and brand marketing experience, I think you'd crush that role."

I was flattered, but confused. "I have no brand marketing experience," I told him.

His response: "Sure you do. I've been following you on LinkedIn for six months and have seen all I need to see. If you do for us what you've done for yourself there, you'll do great."

I couldn't quite believe it. Was I really being handed the opportunity to pivot into something I was genuinely passionate about, and get paid more to do it, simply because of what I'd been posting?

If I'd applied for that role through normal channels, a recruiter screening resumes would have rejected me on the spot. My resume said "RevOps." It didn't say "brand marketing." But my LinkedIn activity told a different story, one a recruiter scanning keywords would never have found.

I took the job. Two years later, the company was acquired for $1.2B. And eventually, I started my own personal brand strategy practice, built on the same principle that got me there in the first place.

That's the part most people miss about LinkedIn: it's not just a place to look for opportunities. Done consistently, it's a place where opportunities find *you*, ones you'd never have known existed otherwise, and ones a traditional resume could never surface.

This works whether you're a founder building a company, an employee building a career, or anyone trying to get noticed for what they're actually capable of, not just what's on paper.

The question worth asking yourself: are you giving the world enough signal to manifest that kind of serendipity?

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*Originally posted on LinkedIn,* [*read it here*](https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn%3Ali%3Ashare%3A7257721488529657858?ref=liamdarmody.ai)

Hi5, 

LD 🌶️