Career Advice

Getting a Job.md

Getting a Job

• Checkout what's out there
  • What are employers looking for?
  • Checkout linkedin and see if you can get intros
  • See if they host open houses or events
• Meetup
  • Network
  • Learn something know
  • Meet cool people!
• Github
  • Build an app that's interesting to you (not a todo app... which i am guilty of)
  • Contribute to open source (but meaningfuly)
  • Read open source code! There are hundreds of ways of doing things. You might learn a new pattern/idea/library/language feature.

Once you have a job.md

Once you have a job

• ...keep checking what's out there
  • See what the going rate for what you're doing is
  • What skills are employers looking for. Are you learning those where you're at?
  • Interview as often as you want... but shoot for at least once or twice a year
• Compensation isn't just money
  • Learning
  • Career growth (are you moving up and do you want to here?)
  • Stocks and Benefits
  • Team and Co-workers
  • Culture
  • Work/Life balance
  • It's fine to take a lower paying/title if you're getting compensated in other ways
• Keeping up to date
  • Hacker News, Reddit, etc
  • Mobbing with other teams or pairing with other people
  • Can't try out something at work? Do a side project
• Mentorship
  • Usually unofficial
  • Pick someone that is where you want to be (knowledge, career, life wise) and talk to them
  • People like talking about themselves... You just have to ask them
  • You can have more than one!
• Fail... A lot
  • At interviewing
  • At work
  • In general
  • put yourself in a position where it's no big deal
  • ... and just learn something from it.

you are the cutest.