The document provides career advice for getting into the tech field, including advice for students, recent graduates, and those looking to change careers. It recommends gaining experience through internships and side projects during college, contributing to open source projects, networking, finding a mentor, practicing mock interviews and whiteboarding questions, and preparing for technical interviews through sites like LeetCode and HackerRank. The document is presented as a guide with sections on various topics and includes the speaker's own career path and contributions to open source as an example.
I'm Graduating Soon. Help! How Do I Get into the Tech Field?Tessa Mero
The tech field is booming and more and more companies are moving to be fully remote, giving more options to work at different tech companies. There are so many software engineering jobs open, but it seems so difficult to achieve! A big dream so close, but yet so far away. Whether you are still in college or freshly graduated, the earlier you start the process, the better your chances of getting hired are.
I've been in the tech field for 9 years now, and part of it was teaching programming at a college, working with students, and also being a student myself, I clearly see a pattern of how you can become "zero to successful" if you follow a very simple plan. I've mentored countless students as well as junior developers throughout my career. So, what's the plan?
Mentorship.
Personal Projects/Learning
Contributions.
Building a Personal Brand.
Networking.
Mock Interviews.
I'm going to go over these key points into more detail and how you can get started with it. I'll also have plenty of resources to provide for you that will help you with your next steps.
You will gain a lot of knowledge from this session and will feel not only more confident, but you'll feel the fire in your soul to want to make your dreams come true.
Are you ready to get hired?
This is a crowd-sourced repository of all possible hacks for a developer's career growth. Combine a couple of them as your time allows and you will have a great recipe to the next level in your career.
For this research, we compiled our knowledge base and also specifically
crowdsourced diverse ideas & opportunities from technology leaders in different stages of their careers to build this map for developer careers.
Code4Ukraine (C4U) is a 24h event aiming to solve problems and challenges that humanitarian organizations and volunteers face on the ground while assisting refugees.
We've partnered with humanitarian organizations and volunteers ("partners") and thoroughly mapped a list of challenges to be solved and make someone's life actually easier.
Developers, designers, product people, anyone that can make things a reality. This presentation contains tips for C4U hackathon participants.
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In this session, Tarun Gangwani covers the complexities of working with products across the physical and software arena. He also discusses how ideas and concepts become reality, how a PM works cross-functionally with multiple teams to keep a project flowing and how a PM continues to iterate and improve upon products after they've made it to consumers' hands.
CONNECTWorking 202005 | Succeed when remoteGTA Talents
This unprecedented situation leaves us with uncertainties, but we surely need to adapt, especially by leveraging digital technologies at every level of the workforce: recruiters, job-seekers, entrepreneurs, workers.
To support you in these changes, GTA Talents invite you to discuss their impact on two topics related to your career: remote job interviews and digital networking.
How to get prepared for your next remote job interview? How to master digital technologies to grow your networking and keep making connections?
I'm Graduating Soon. Help! How Do I Get into the Tech Field?Tessa Mero
The tech field is booming and more and more companies are moving to be fully remote, giving more options to work at different tech companies. There are so many software engineering jobs open, but it seems so difficult to achieve! A big dream so close, but yet so far away. Whether you are still in college or freshly graduated, the earlier you start the process, the better your chances of getting hired are.
I've been in the tech field for 9 years now, and part of it was teaching programming at a college, working with students, and also being a student myself, I clearly see a pattern of how you can become "zero to successful" if you follow a very simple plan. I've mentored countless students as well as junior developers throughout my career. So, what's the plan?
Mentorship.
Personal Projects/Learning
Contributions.
Building a Personal Brand.
Networking.
Mock Interviews.
I'm going to go over these key points into more detail and how you can get started with it. I'll also have plenty of resources to provide for you that will help you with your next steps.
You will gain a lot of knowledge from this session and will feel not only more confident, but you'll feel the fire in your soul to want to make your dreams come true.
Are you ready to get hired?
This is a crowd-sourced repository of all possible hacks for a developer's career growth. Combine a couple of them as your time allows and you will have a great recipe to the next level in your career.
For this research, we compiled our knowledge base and also specifically
crowdsourced diverse ideas & opportunities from technology leaders in different stages of their careers to build this map for developer careers.
Code4Ukraine (C4U) is a 24h event aiming to solve problems and challenges that humanitarian organizations and volunteers face on the ground while assisting refugees.
We've partnered with humanitarian organizations and volunteers ("partners") and thoroughly mapped a list of challenges to be solved and make someone's life actually easier.
Developers, designers, product people, anyone that can make things a reality. This presentation contains tips for C4U hackathon participants.
What Are Your First PM Role Keys to Success by Twitch PMProduct School
In this session, Tarun Gangwani covers the complexities of working with products across the physical and software arena. He also discusses how ideas and concepts become reality, how a PM works cross-functionally with multiple teams to keep a project flowing and how a PM continues to iterate and improve upon products after they've made it to consumers' hands.
CONNECTWorking 202005 | Succeed when remoteGTA Talents
This unprecedented situation leaves us with uncertainties, but we surely need to adapt, especially by leveraging digital technologies at every level of the workforce: recruiters, job-seekers, entrepreneurs, workers.
To support you in these changes, GTA Talents invite you to discuss their impact on two topics related to your career: remote job interviews and digital networking.
How to get prepared for your next remote job interview? How to master digital technologies to grow your networking and keep making connections?
Your users may struggle with these questions:
• Should I share a message via Skype for Business instead of Yammer, Office 365 Groups, or Exchange?
• Should I collaborate on data using an Excel sheet or a SharePoint list?
• Should I share a file in Outlook, in a meeting, from OneDrive for Business, on Yammer, in a Group, or in a SharePoint site?
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The purpose of this workshop is to gain valuable insights into the future of work, a chance to explore some practical and thought provoking exercises and take action individually and as a team to get future ready.
Ideally used for:
Teams who potentially face significant disruption from technology in the coming years, teams who are wanting to build their resilience and growth through change, and teams who have come through significant change and are wanting to re-set
Teams who want to proactively get ahead of disruption and get on top of the issues
Team Performance Objectives:
The team learns how automation, artificial intelligence and digitisation are changing the world of work and threatening many of our jobs
The team learns how we can adapt to these changes and learn ways to thrive in this new world
The team members uncover personal insights and gain awareness about themselves and useful tools for setting bold goals and changing behaviour
The team explores how to ensure it transforms and stays relevant and what changes it must make to ensure this.
Slides from session 1 of my User Experience class at School of Visual Concepts: Introduction to UX core principles and process, and introduction to interviewing. Learn more at http://svc-ux1.leannagingras.com/
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Although, formal education helps in creating opportunities for first job but it is not necessary to have a degree in computer science, math or other STEM fields to get a job at a tech company. In today’s fast-paced technology industry, most of the information of the world is never more than a few clicks away and where things change so fast, education must in fact be a life-long process and not the learn-once-use-forever one-off process. Therefore, relevance of a degree is easily compensated with relevant skills combined with business use-cases and projects.
In this talk, we will discuss about the roles and opportunities in the tech industry and why skill-driven approach changes mindset of the recruiter. It will include how one can break barriers of academic limitations, tap into opportunities through soft skills and networking, choose to slip into the job they want rather than slip away. Concluding it with useful resources and hacks to network better to land into opportunities life-long.
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Your users may struggle with these questions:
Should I share a message via Skype for Business instead of Yammer, Office 365 Groups, or Exchange?
Should I collaborate on data using an Excel sheet or a SharePoint list?
Should I share a file in Outlook, in a meeting, from OneDrive for Business, on Yammer, in a Group, or in a SharePoint site?
What happens when your users can't decide what technology or feature to use? They use what they know, or what’s easy; even if better options exist.
In this session, join Richard Harbridge as he helps you maximize the value of your Office 365 investment by providing the guidance you need to help your users make better, more effective decisions on how they get work done.
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As seen on: https://www.meetup.com/productmanagementNY/events/247800115/
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Whether you want to test your user group's response to a new product or changes to modules or features within an existing product, as a product person you need to have a creative set of analytical skills and strategies for how to steer the group toward productive discussions. Let's get together to discuss how focus groups can truly work well for you, and how you can organize, coordinate, and effectively lead focus group sessions.
Main takeaways:
- The do's and don'ts when leading focus groups
- What it takes to guide a productive conversation and avoid groupthink
- How to connect with participants in order to generate informative responses
- Ways to articulate your focus group strategies
- Methods for asking questions and capturing insights
Meet the Speaker: Tremis Skeete
Tremis is a Technical Product Manager at NexTier Innovations, a management consultancy specializing in Multi-Dimensional Analytics, Project Portfolio Intelligence, and Enterprise Cyber and Infrastructure Security. He comes from a Computer Science background and has 15+ years of experience working with design teams. He has helped clients such as Zel Technologies, The Altria Group, Barclays Bank, US Department of Defense and L’oreal. During his time working with these companies he helped build web sites, applications, intranets, and graphic communications across multiple platforms.
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Your users may struggle with these questions:
• Should I share a message via Skype for Business instead of Yammer, Office 365 Groups, or Exchange?
• Should I collaborate on data using an Excel sheet or a SharePoint list?
• Should I share a file in Outlook, in a meeting, from OneDrive for Business, on Yammer, in a Group, or in a SharePoint site?
What happens when your users can't decide what technology or feature to use? They use what they know, or what’s easy; even if better options exist. In this session, join Richard Harbridge as he helps you maximize the value of your Office 365 investment by providing the guidance you need to help your users make better, more effective decisions on how they get work done.
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The purpose of this workshop is to gain valuable insights into the future of work, a chance to explore some practical and thought provoking exercises and take action individually and as a team to get future ready.
Ideally used for:
Teams who potentially face significant disruption from technology in the coming years, teams who are wanting to build their resilience and growth through change, and teams who have come through significant change and are wanting to re-set
Teams who want to proactively get ahead of disruption and get on top of the issues
Team Performance Objectives:
The team learns how automation, artificial intelligence and digitisation are changing the world of work and threatening many of our jobs
The team learns how we can adapt to these changes and learn ways to thrive in this new world
The team members uncover personal insights and gain awareness about themselves and useful tools for setting bold goals and changing behaviour
The team explores how to ensure it transforms and stays relevant and what changes it must make to ensure this.
Slides from session 1 of my User Experience class at School of Visual Concepts: Introduction to UX core principles and process, and introduction to interviewing. Learn more at http://svc-ux1.leannagingras.com/
How to land your first job in tech without an engineering degreeStuti Verma
Although, formal education helps in creating opportunities for first job but it is not necessary to have a degree in computer science, math or other STEM fields to get a job at a tech company. In today’s fast-paced technology industry, most of the information of the world is never more than a few clicks away and where things change so fast, education must in fact be a life-long process and not the learn-once-use-forever one-off process. Therefore, relevance of a degree is easily compensated with relevant skills combined with business use-cases and projects.
In this talk, we will discuss about the roles and opportunities in the tech industry and why skill-driven approach changes mindset of the recruiter. It will include how one can break barriers of academic limitations, tap into opportunities through soft skills and networking, choose to slip into the job they want rather than slip away. Concluding it with useful resources and hacks to network better to land into opportunities life-long.
How do you get a job in data science? Knowing enough statistics, machine learning, programming, etc to be able to get a job is difficult. One thing I have found lately is quite a few people may have the required skills to get a job, but no portfolio. While a resume matters, having a portfolio of public evidence of your data science skills can do wonders for your job prospects. Even if you have a referral, the ability to show potential employers what you can do instead of just telling them you can do something is important. This is a talk based on my original blog on Building a Data Science Portfolio: https://towardsdatascience.com/how-to-build-a-data-science-portfolio-5f566517c79c
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Brought by the Ofek Alumni association supporting it's alumni.
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Your users may struggle with these questions: Should I share a message via Skype for Business instead of Yammer, Office 365 Groups, or Exchange? Should I collaborate on data using an Excel sheet or a SharePoint list? Should I share a file in Outlook, in a meeting, from OneDrive for Business, on Yammer, in a Group, or in a SharePoint site? This session is the ‘How To’ user’s guide What happens when your users can't decide what technology or feature to use? They use what they know, or what’s easy; even if better options exist. In this session, Richard and Kanwal help you maximize the value of your Office 365 investment by providing the guidance you need to help your users make better, more effective decisions on how they get work done.
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Your users may struggle with these questions:
Should I share a message via Skype for Business instead of Yammer, Office 365 Groups, or Exchange?
Should I collaborate on data using an Excel sheet or a SharePoint list?
Should I share a file in Outlook, in a meeting, from OneDrive for Business, on Yammer, in a Group, or in a SharePoint site?
What happens when your users can't decide what technology or feature to use? They use what they know, or what’s easy; even if better options exist.
In this session, join Richard Harbridge as he helps you maximize the value of your Office 365 investment by providing the guidance you need to help your users make better, more effective decisions on how they get work done.
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As seen on: https://www.meetup.com/productmanagementNY/events/247800115/
Talking to users can be challenging or intimidating, and running a focus group is one of those tasks which most Product Managers would say is essential in getting real user insights. Traditionally, UX designers and Product Managers have relied on a combination of quantitative data and qualitative insights from focus groups and interviews.
Whether you want to test your user group's response to a new product or changes to modules or features within an existing product, as a product person you need to have a creative set of analytical skills and strategies for how to steer the group toward productive discussions. Let's get together to discuss how focus groups can truly work well for you, and how you can organize, coordinate, and effectively lead focus group sessions.
Main takeaways:
- The do's and don'ts when leading focus groups
- What it takes to guide a productive conversation and avoid groupthink
- How to connect with participants in order to generate informative responses
- Ways to articulate your focus group strategies
- Methods for asking questions and capturing insights
Meet the Speaker: Tremis Skeete
Tremis is a Technical Product Manager at NexTier Innovations, a management consultancy specializing in Multi-Dimensional Analytics, Project Portfolio Intelligence, and Enterprise Cyber and Infrastructure Security. He comes from a Computer Science background and has 15+ years of experience working with design teams. He has helped clients such as Zel Technologies, The Altria Group, Barclays Bank, US Department of Defense and L’oreal. During his time working with these companies he helped build web sites, applications, intranets, and graphic communications across multiple platforms.
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2. Career Path:
● A Lost Soul
● Gamestop/Jewelry Sales/HR
● Assistant Teacher/Web Development
Intern (3 mo each)
● Graduated from College
● Web Application Developer / Web
Support Technician (OSTraining)
● Programming Instructor/Curriculum
Creator
● Developer Advocate
● Senior Developer Advocate
3. Agenda
Ask questions throughout!!!! It’s an open Q&A
● During College - What you should do to prep
● Contributions/Personal Brand/Growth
● Networking/Mentorship
● Interview Prep/Mock
Interviews/Whiteboarding
4. During College
Should you be doing anything now before
graduating? What should you do to prepare?
➔ Projects or Internships
Create a portfolio by doing projects or
doing temp internships for
individuals/companies
➔ Industry Research
Learn about different roles in the
industry. There’s SO MANY!!!
➔ Make a Plan
What is your timeline on your next
steps?
5. Learn & Create
Learn as much as you can so you are familiar
with terminology and basics. It’s impossible
to be proficient at EVERYTHING!
➔ Learn
Learn the basics on different
technologies, tools, frameworks, and
anything to widen your knowledge.
➔ Create
Make your portfolio. The first thing the
interviewer will look at is your projects.
➔ Get Feedback
Get Code Reviews Done. I cannot
emphasize this enough. I made the
mistake of not!
6. Contributions
This is what landed me my first 6 figure job
at a big company!!!!!! THIS IS THE SECRET.
➔ Find a Project
Figure out what areas of technology
you enjoy. Look into Free and Open
Source Software (FOSS) Projects.
➔ Network with that Community
This will help you learn about different
teams, where help is needed, and
figure out where you best fit later on.
➔ Build a Contribution Portfolio
Network. Make friends. Build a portfolio,
add to Resume!!!
7. My Contributions to Open Source
Communities
● J! - Bug Squad - Bug Tester
● J! - Extensions Team, then Assistant
Manager
● J! - Board of Directors
● J! - Developer Advocate (Keynoting at
PHP events)
● Organizer of Joomla, PHP, Vue.js, APIs,
DevRel, Jamstack events…
● Organized PHP Conference and API
Conference
8. Personal Brand
Okay so this isn’t really necessary, but it
makes you stand out!
➔ Create Personal Website
Figure out what areas of technology
you enjoy. Look into Free and Open
Source Software (FOSS) Projects.
➔ Social Media Presence
Follow software engineers and industry
thought leaders and learn and/or
engage with them.
Where is the software engineering
community? Twitter.com and Dev.to
9. Networking
Networking is important. This will eventually
lead to being recommended to jobs in the
future.
➔ Social Forums
Social media, dev forums, GitHub,
Discord/Slack communities, virtual
meetups, in person meetups,
conferences (scholarships fyi)
➔ Who to Follow?
95% of the people I follow are really
positive and quality thought leaders in
the tech field:
https://twitter.com/TessaMero/following
Want to follow Vue.js content writers?
Here’s an example of how:
https://dev.to/t/vue
10. (pt2) Networking
Networking on social media, dev forums,
GitHub, Discord/Slack communities,
➔ Events/Hackathons
Participate in virtual events and/or
in-person events and expand your
network organically.
➔ Discord/Slack
Find communities of technologies you
enjoy. Engage with developers. Ask
questions and/or help others with their
questions, share experiences.
11. Mentors
Finding a mentor will be your fast path to
success. I’ve had one for every dream job
I’ve had!
➔ Search Resources
http://stephaniehurlburt.com/blog/2016/11/14
/list-of-engineers-willing-to-mentor-you
Google “find a mentor software
engineer” and you’ll find endless
articles!
➔ Mentor Will Provide Resources
Mentors can help with giving you an
understanding of your next steps on
what you need to do to get to where
you want to be!
12. Mock Interviews
Practice Interviewing until you feel
comfortable.
➔ Find Mock Interviews
After networking, it should be easy to
find help with others providing mock
interviews for you. Practice until you
feel comfortable!
➔ Practice - WhiteBoarding
As someone who went through the
Google interview process, this is
important and a whole presentation on
its own. Lots of resources online,
samples on YouTube.
13. White Boarding
Practice practice practice
➔ For Code Liveshare - code with a
mentor
https:/
/codeshare.io/
➔ Google Doc
Practice whiteboarding your code in a
google doc. Use text formatting:
Roboto Mono
15. Coding
Preparation
➔ Leet Code
Prepare for tech questions for each
company you’d like to apply for
https:/
/leetcode.com/
➔ HackerRank
Practice coding questions, get ranked,
and standout from the crowd:
https:/
/www.hackerrank.com/dashboa
rd
16. Interview Process
➔ Recruiter - Asking questions
(sometimes intro/sometimes
random tech questions on
algorithms)
➔ Phone Coding Questions
➔ Whiteboarding Coding
Questions
➔ In person Coding questions
17. Interview Prep
Okay you’re about to have an interview.
HELP!
➔ Company Research
Read about the company, their
values/principals, their
product/technology, make something
with it...utilize glassdoor!!!! Read
engineering blogs by X company.
Understand how they scale their
services
➔ Mental Health
Exercise, do jumping jacks, listen to
music, practice breathing so you are
less nervous and tense during the
interview.
18. Cover Letters
This is your way to quickly stand out from the
rest
➔ What position are you applying for?
➔ Who are you and why are you
applying?
➔ What is your
education/experience that makes
you applicable for the job?
➔ What value will you bring to the
company if you are hired and why
should they hire you?
19. Mental State
Maybe you have to apply to 500+ jobs. Be
prepared for rejection
➔ Understand it is difficult to land a
first job with no experience
➔ It IS possible. You WILL get hired
➔ Positive self talk
➔ Keep preparing and focus
21. Remember -
➔ Ask questions before you start. Clarification!
System requirements? How many users?
Anything you can think of. Show that you are
understanding first.
➔ Think and talk out loud the entire time. If you
need to stop talking to think, let the
interviewer know
➔ Confirm and ask questions before solving the
code
➔ Practice and memorize 1 coding question per
day for at least 3 months
➔ JavaScript: Understand Closures, “This”
keyword, prototypal inheritance, and other
core concepts
➔ Understanding the specifications is better
than getting the answer right
