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Say Think Insight
- there are so many jobs offers
- the thing I value more is a friendly environment
- I am not sure about my future career path
- I am afraid many jobs are quite boring
- I am not used to rigid time schedules
- Some of my friends are not happy in their jobs but they stay
- money, how much to ask, how much I deserve
- not sure about getting a job or start a company myself
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There are many completely different kind of career paths:
startup, big IT company, small software development
company, project leader, software architect, etc.
He is somehow scared of going from a fun and free
situation to a boring and restricted work
He has not realized that there are many tradeoffs
involved
He is ready to take big risks, he is not even aware of the
risks
The market is so favorable for software
engineers that it is companies that
compite to get the engineers instead of
people competing to get into a
company.
The thing software engineers value
most of a job is not money or package
benefits but the environment where they
are going to work: are they going to use
a tie, what software tools and languages
they use, do they work in pairs, etc.
Do Feel
Problem Framing
Stakeholder Need Insight
Alfredo, young student will graduate a a software engineer in
December. He has never had a formal employment but he
has experience a few short duration jobs during summer and
vacation. He would like to continue at school but he also
needs to start getting paid.
to explore as many possible job prospects as possible
before accepting the one with the best environment
to get advice from other young engineers doing different
kind of jobs at different companies
the scarcity of software engineers
allows them to window-shop amomg the
available job offers instead of the more
regular situation where companies get
to pick the people they want