Establish shareable calendar and show to your instructor(s): https://calendar.google.com/calendar?cid=YWlydW04MkBnbWFpbC5jb20
List your cut-off date for having a full-time position: October 30th.
List monthly, weekly, and daily goals: apply to at least 2 jobs and message 4 people daily. Go to two meetups weekly. Have at least one job offer within a month.
Create "daily_practice" repo and describe to instructor(s) what you plan to practice: https://github.com/airum82/daily_practice -I plan to learn ruby with the goal of learning ruby on rails -For some front end practice I'm going to see if I can recreate the virtual ticket screen from the rtd app
List 3 people you will reach out to. Describe to instructor(s) why you'll reach out, when you'll email them by, what you hope to talk about, and what follow-up will look like:
-
I will reach out to Jacob Feldman at beatport about his experience working there and what would be the best way to go about applying. The follow up will be a thank you for the feedback.
-
I will reach out to Jason Chipman at Marijuana Business Daily because I saw a job posting for it and he is a wordpress developer there. I will ask him about his experience working there and what skills I can work on to be a more desirable front end developer.
-
will reach out to Whitney Bertram at Healthgrades. She is a one of the talent recruiters so maybe talking with her directly could help me bipass the online application process. I would like to ask her about what the best avenue to apply would be. My follow up would be thanking her for the feedback and asking for tips on applying to developer positions in general.
List 3 meetups you'll attend and describe to instructor(s) why you'll attend them:
I attend code-for-boulder weekly because I like building civic tech and it gives me the opportunity to work with new technologies. I will also attend bootcampers collective coffee meetup because it's a good chance to practice technical interview questions among a group. Finally I will attend boulder react coding night to network and work with react more.
List the job search tracking system you're using and describe to instructor(s) why you're using it/how it will help you:
I am using jobtrack.io because it shows me all jobs that I am pursuing and where I am in the process for each.
List 2-3 areas you'd like to continue to improve on for interviewing and outline concrete action steps on how you will improve those skills to describe to instructor(s):
I will practice technical challenges. Time for that is built into my calendar I will also use some of that time to review technical interview questions.
Summary of how you've updated your LinkedIn profile:
I have updated my linkedin profile to say front end engineer and not front end engineer student, I have changed my bio to reflect that accordingly.
List additional area you'll focus on in your job search and describe why to instructor(s):
I'm going to focus on networking as much as I can because I believe that avenue is more likely to lead to a job than the cold outreach and job app submission combination.
List 1-2 people you'll check in with during job search: Tory Dannenberg and David Dunne
List 1-2 "barriers" and describe how you will overcome them to your instructor(s):
No job experience: I will go to meetups that involve coding so employed developers can see that I have a professional level of skill.
Lack of backend knowledge: I will expand my backend knowledge by learning to work with ruby and ruby on rails as a personal goal.