The document discusses strategies for employing new junior developers, highlighting the demand for various tech roles and the importance of supporting engineering teams. It suggests creative approaches, including the use of a 'does it fit meter' to assess role suitability for candidates. Overall, the speaker emphasizes the need to match new developers with appropriate job opportunities in the tech industry.

1. How to Employ All of the
New Junior Developers
Brittany Martin
Confoo Vancouver
Tuesday, December 6th
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2. Hello Conference

3. I Hail From
United States of America

4. Nerdy Family of 3

5. Pittsburgh Cultural Trust
Ruby on Rails
Tessitura
Ticketing for 10 Organizations
Lead Ruby Developer

6. Bloc
Remote Mentorship
Navigate Careers
Mentor

7. Product Manager Developer Bootcamp Software Developer
My Story

8. New Developers + Allies

9. The Situation“

10. 0
6000
12000
18000
24000
2014 2015 2016
New Developers
Growth in Learning to Code
Self Taught Bootcamp
Course Report Coding Survey
2014, 2015, 2016
Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2016

11. Job Postings
Junior Developer Roles Available
Indeed Job Trend Report
2012 - 2016

12. Jobseeker Interest
Junior Developer Roles Available
Indeed Job Trend Report
2012 - 2016

13. Data Scientist
12%
BE Web Dev
13%
FE Web Dev
26%
FS Web Dev
49%
Roles Desired
A vast majority are interested in
working as web developers, of those
who want to work at a company.
freeCodeCamp 2015 Survey
5294 Responses

15. How Do We
Get Everyone
Hired?

16. Let’s Get
CREATIVE
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17. Introducing:
The Does It Fit Meter
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18. 1.SUPPORT THE ENGINEERING TEAM
2.WRITE CODE
3.ACCESS TO RESOURCES
4.NEED TO BE TECHNICAL
The Rules

19. Support Engineer
Alternate Roles
QAAnalyst Developer Evangelist Technical PM

20. Support Engineer“

21. Perfect For
Customer Service
Experience
Quick Thinker
Patient Resourceful

22. Available
Job Count
5,126 American Jobs
3,708 Canadian Jobs

23. Katelyn Hertel
Support Engineer
Fastly
Meet

24. 1.SUPPORT THE ENGINEERING TEAM
2.WRITE CODE
3.ACCESS TO RESOURCES
4.NEED TO BE TECHNICAL
Does It Fit?

25. Junior
Quality Assurance
Analyst
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26. Perfect For
Testing Aptitude Curiosity
Ability to Negotiate Clever

27. Available
Job Count
727 American Jobs
152 Canadian Jobs

28. Emiko Dodson
QA Engineer
Orca Health
Meet

29. 1.SUPPORT THE ENGINEERING TEAM
2.WRITE CODE
3.ACCESS TO RESOURCES
4.NEED TO BE TECHNICAL
Does It Fit?

30. Developer
Evangelist
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31. Perfect For
Social Affinity for Marketing
Excellent Communicator Scrappy

32. Available
Job Count
270 American Jobs
55 Canadian Jobs

33. Felipe Millan
Developer Evangelist
Sendgrid
Meet

34. 1.SUPPORT THE ENGINEERING TEAM
2.WRITE CODE
3.ACCESS TO RESOURCES
4.NEED TO BE TECHNICAL
Does It Fit?

35. Technical
Product Manager
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36. Perfect For
Natural Leader Data Powered
Great at Estimating Love Users

37. Available
Job Count
106,246 American Jobs
8,279 Canadian Jobs

38. Me
Technical Product Manager
NIRD LLC, 2 years ago
Meet

39. 1.SUPPORT THE ENGINEERING TEAM
2.WRITE CODE
3.ACCESS TO RESOURCES
4.NEED TO BE TECHNICAL
Does It Fit?

40. Past Experience Counts!

41. Let’s get everyone
a job that fits!

42. Thank You.
@BrittJMartin
@wonderwoman13
Tomorrow @ 3pm
Deployments So Easy,
Devs Will Ask For It by
Name
and Thank You, Confoo.