[Walkman]

I did open source, put everything up to GitHub, participated in public discussions and I never applied for a job (except for one), they found me.

You should build something biggish in a topic you love and make it open source. It doesn't matter what it is. I did this for example: https://github.com/pokerregion/poker

Also, filling out your LinkedIn profile can help.

[joshuaFW]

Seconding this. We find our functional guys through their commits and public repos. Just the bare bones on your LinkedIn helps. Even adding related frameworks, in addition to the languages, makes you much more findable. [dropwizard + Scala etc]

[lagbaja]

Thanks for the advice, most appreciated.