Here are the slides of the Summer of Code 09 talk. They contain: * Welcome and introduction to Summer of Code * Main Seminar How to have a kick ass ICT career

1. Welcome to
Summer of Code 09
John Clegg - ProjectX + Summer of Code
Victoria University 15th July 2009

2. Today
Summer of Code 09 Kick-Ass Careers in ICT

3. What is Summer of Code ?

4. Summer of Code
non-profit internship
programme connecting smart
students with Wellington ICT
companies

5. 70 students
in over
40
companies

6. 2 out of 3
students get
hired

7. What’s in it for you ?
Get training - Bootcamps, Seminars and Workshops
Get experience - 400+ hours of ICT experience
Get paid - $18 p/h
Create networks with Industry - UP, NZCS
Have Fun!

8. Boot
camps
• Resumes workshop
• Communication skills

9. Boot
camps
• Languages - .net / php / rails
• Web / HTML / SQL
• Unit Testing / Code Management

10. It starts now!
Sign up on Summer of Code ‘09
Bootcamps start next week
www.summerofcode.co.nz

11. How to have kick-ass ICT career

12. What do companies
look for in a graduate ?

13. Tips to help you along your way

14. Where to go for
help?

15. Who am I ?
John Clegg
(J Money - Pimp of SoC)
CEO - ProjectX
Summer of Code

16. Where I’ve been ?
VUW Undergraduate
C+ Average
Career didn’t follow a plan
Spent time working in
USA, OZ, UK, India, South
Africa and NZ

17. Getting a good job is HARD!

18. Talked to a lot of
people about hiring

19. I asked
one
important
question

20. What they
look for in
a graduate?

21. The answers surprised me

22. We hire on personality

23. We hire on team fit

24. Tech skills are a given

27. We need a new plan

28. We need think differently

29. “Anybody with even routine skills
could get a job as a programmer.
That isn't true anymore.”

30. “The future no longer belongs to
people who can reason with
computer-like logic, speed, and
precision.”

31. “... engineers will have to master
different aptitudes,
relying more on creativity than
competence”

32. What skills are
important going
forward?

33. Not just function - DESIGN

34. Not just argument - STORY

35. Not just argument - STORY

36. Not just argument - STORY

37. Not just argument - STORY

38. Not just focus - SYMPHONY

39. Not just focus - EMPATHY

40. Not just seriousness - PLAY

41. Not just accumulation - MEANING

42. Your work fits into
a big picture
DESIGN - STORY - SYMPHONY
EMPATHY - PLAY - MEANING

43. How do you make this
fit together ?

44. 5 things to think about in your career

45. #1 #1 Who are you?

46. We see a lot of resumes

47. What are you all about ?

48. What does the world say
about you ?

49. What makes you
different ?

50. Its not about grades
We hire people not grades !

51. We don’t want robots

52. Self awareness

53. What are your
strengths ?

54. What are you
good at?

55. Look at Tiger Woods

56. What is the best part of
Tiger Woods
game?

57. His Drive

58. What does Tiger Woods
practice the most ?

59. His Drive

60. Lesson #1
Work on your strengths
Work around your
weaknesses

61. #2 “What are your
Interests?”

62. Tell us more about yourself

63. There are plenty of things that
suck about computers

64. What do you like about
computers?

65. What do you like about
programming?

66. Lesson #2
Tell us why you want to
work in ICT

67. #3 Curiosity

68. We have lots of
problems

69. We need people to hunt
them down

70. Figure out what’s wrong

71. Build Solutions

72. Lesson #3
Be curious

73. #4 Learning

74. “By nature men are pretty much
alike; it is learning and practice
that set them apart.”
Confucius

75. "Learning is like rowing upstream:
not to advance is to drop back."
-- Chinese proverb

76. How do you
learn ?

77. By Osmosis?

78. Visual ?

79. Aural ?

80. Kinetic ?

81. Or by Osmosis?
Mindmaps ?

82. Lesson #4
Figure out how you learn
Check out NLP

83. #4 Getting things done

84. When do you
work best?

85. You learn differently at
different times of the day

86. In the end its about outputs

87. Its about hitting targets

88. Formula for success:
Under promise
Over deliver
- Tom Peters

89. Lesson #5
Focus on getting things
done

90. Summary
1. Show us your strengths
2. Tell us why you want to work in ICT
3. Be more curious
4. Figure out how you learn
5. Focus on getting things done

91. Here are five tips for
your career journey

92. #1 Its not about “you”

93. Its about what you can
do for your company

94. Tip #1 Kick ass for your
company and its clients
Build your own ‘brand’

95. #2 Its not about
“qualifications”

96. We don’t want robots

97. Learning is a one step
in a journey...

98. What you do with it,
is more important!

99. “The difference between the
novice and the master is simply that
the novice has not learnt, yet, how
to do things in such a way that he
can afford to make small mistakes”
Signal vs Noise Blog

100. You learn by doing lots of
small projects

101. Tip #2 Show us what you can
do
Build a portfolio

102. #3 Learn about the
industry

103. Read blogs that interest you
• Silicon Welly
• NZ Herald
• Stuff Tech Pages

104. Find out what’s happening in the
industry

105. Technology changes fast
Keep up

106. Tip #3 Keep with the news
Look at delicious.com

107. #4 Its about People

108. Connect with other geeks

109. Google doesn’t know
all the answers

110. Tip #4 Connect with
User groups
• Unlimited Potential
• Super Happy Dev
House
• Geek Girls
• Specialist User groups

111. #5 Communication

112. You have to talk to
people

113. Best tech doesn’t all
ways win

114. People with better
communication skills
succeed

115. Ask Questions

116. Tip #5 Talk to people

117. Summary
1. Kick ass for your boss
2. Build your portfolio of interesting
projects
3. Keep up with industry news
4. Join and participate in user groups
5. Just talk to people

118. Where to go for
help?

119. Visit them at 14 Kelburn Parade
Wellington
http://www.victoria.ac.nz/st_services/careers/

120. Talk to a Student Liaison

121. Go to industry network events

122. Books

123. More books

124. Questions

125. Resume seminar next week

126. Links
News / Bookmarking - Delicious.com
Networking organisations
- Unlimited Potential - http://www.up.org.nz
- Super Happy Dev House
- http://superhappydevhouse.org.nz/
Summer of Code
- http://www.summerofcode.co.nz