Ari Waller, Meetup Event Manager, will give an overview of the current Software Engineering job market trends for 2020. It does not matter whether your focus is Java, Go, Python, Node.js, C/C++, Cloud Native or DevOps, this talk is of value to your career. Ari examines the current and future states of software development languages, supply and demands trends in the marketplace, as well as conducts a career-oriented Q&A (resumes, interviews, and overall job hunting tips and strategies). This will include: ● IT Career Trends ● IT Career Motivation and how to self-assess your career ● Job Market-specific data for Software Developer ● Future Job Consideration ● Preparing for Success ● Q & A

1. Software Engineer Career Motivation
Baltimore Go Meetup

2. ● Meetup Event Manager
● 23 years in Information
Technology Recruiting
● Python and Programming
Newbie. Taking Go Class
Sunday
● Father of many!
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4. • Unemployment 3.5% (Feb 2020)
• IT Unemployment 1.3% (May 2019)
How’s the Tech Job Market During Covid?
Before Covid-19
During Covid-19
• Unemployment 13.3% (Jun 2020)
• IT Unemployment 4.3% (April 2020)
• IT Unemployment 3.7% (May 2020)
https://www.comptia.org/newsroom/2020/06/05/unexpected-jobs-report-sends-mixed-signals-in-tech-employment

6. So
what
does
this
mean
for

7. How Does GoLang Rank?
● 11th most popular language on the Tiobe Index
● 13th ranked language on PYPL (Tutorial Searches)
● 5th most loved programming language on Stackoverflow
● 2018 - 2019 #10 & 147% increase in Github Repositories

8. Go is quickly become a core language
The job opportunities are increasing
Version 2.0 will lead to increased adoption
Remote opportunities will increase
Where will Go?

9. Job Tech
Location
Environment
Advancement
Pay
Supervisors
JLEAPS Career Motivators

10. Job Tech Career Motivators
High “J”
● Is your company using the “latest technology”?
● Do you code at night?
● Contribute to Open Source
● Low “J”
● Maintenance and enhancements are “low stress”
● Legacy languages are fine enough
● I quit coding at the end of the day

11. Location Career Motivators
● 19% of IT Professional according to Dice said they
were switching jobs due to commute (Dice 2020
Survey)

12. Environment Career Motivators
● Are you big into “company culture”
● Open door policy?
● Dress codes and flexibility?
●
● Do you care little about culture?
● Do you feel this is oversold
● Hard to have the work environment stand alone as a
motivator

13. Advancement Career Motivators
High “A”
● Is there a career path for you?
● Is it title based? Skill based?
● Low “A”
● I’m a software engineer and I’ll always be a software
engineer
● “Titles are not important to me”

14. Pay Career Motivators
High “J”
● Is your company using the “latest technology”?
● Do you code at night?
● Contribute to Open Source
● Low “J”
● Maintenance and enhancements are “low stress”
● Legacy languages are fine enough
● I quit coding at the end of the day

16. https://insights.dice.com/2019/02/20/top-paying-tech-skills-2019/?ads_kw=golang

17. Supervisor Career Motivators

18. Every 2-4 years analyze your JLEAPS
Why?
1. Everyone is different
2. Priorities change over time
3. Live life to its fullest - because YOU can!

19. Q & A
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