# How to find mentorship to become a substrate developer and land the first job?

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**Created:** [December 4, 2022, 9:17pm UTC](https://forum.polkadot.network/t/how-to-find-mentorship-to-become-a-substrate-developer-and-land-the-first-job/1340 "2022-12-04T21:17:13Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 4, 2022, 9:47pm UTC](https://forum.polkadot.network/t/how-to-find-mentorship-to-become-a-substrate-developer-and-land-the-first-job/1340/3 "2022-12-04T21:47:01Z")

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I think you should also look into and apply to the next Polkadot Blockchain Academy:

> [@Everything You Need to Know About the Polkadot Blockchain Academy](https://forum.polkadot.network/t/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-polkadot-blockchain-academy/825):
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> We are about to launch the second wave of the [Polkadot Blockchain Academy](https://polkadot.network/academy/?utm_source=polkadot%20forum&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=academy%20wave2&utm_content=forum%20announcement), at the beginning of the year in Buenos Aires. So here is everything you need to know about the Academy so far! Mission The goal of the academy is to take talented engineers who are at the beginning of their Web3 journey, teach them everything they need to know to become a brilliant Web3 engineer, and provide them opportunities into the Polkadot ecosystem. Over the one month course, students will learn about and be han…

As far as I understand, Rust developers are in scarce supply in the whole blockchain ecosystem. Most teams would be willing to interview and hire individuals without specific Polkadot / blockchain experience, but are talented in Rust and able to learn fast.

I would say start applying today, and see what happens while you also follow up with these other things.

EDIT: And on top of all of that, I believe there are a number of specific asks our community would have for the Clippy project, since it doesn’t handle all of our linting perfectly yet. If you’d be interested in helping improve clippy FOR Substrate / Polkadot, I am sure there will be a lot of opportunities there too.

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