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Mike Schutte: Module 4 Action Plan

Module 4 Goals

  • Secure a job offer by Week 6.

Strategy To Achieve Goals:

  • Every Monday morning, he sends three emails (either cold outreach or follow up) ( ~1 hour )
  • Every Tuesday at lunch, he meets with Lucy to talk about and research remote jobs ( ~1 hour )
  • Every Thursday (lunch or after school), he applies in full for a position ( ~1 hour )
  • Every Friday, he updates his portfolio, website, linkedin, resume, etc. ( ~1 hour )
  • Once per week, he meets for coffee or a Google Hangout with a job lead or Turing alum ( ~30 minutes )
  • On Monday, April 24th, he opens his first professional pull request!

Coding (both including your module 4 curriculum and anything outside of it):

How will you focus your learning to accomplish your longterm goal?

  • Continue work on my Swift app
  • Attend one MeetUp every two weeks
  • Pair with a mentor once per week
  • JavaScript codewar katas

Opportunities Research:

How will you continue researching companies and contacts? How will you utilize your Trello Board?

  • Check the job boards daily on Turing, Denver Devs, and Tech Friends (Slack)
  • Built in Colorado
  • We Work Remotely
  • Talk to mentors

Cold Outreach/Network:

*Who will you reach out to? Have you considered talking with alumni about their own networking practices when they started their job search?

  • David Whitaker
  • Brad Scharmann
  • Brett Nikolny
  • Dylan Bohlender
  • Emily Freeman

Personal Branding (A personal branding section is optional):

How might personal branding pieces help you towards your goal?

  • Approaching each application and conversation becomes easier if I take the time to prepare some basic branding delivery.

Timeline:

What will you do when?

  • Branding updates every Friday

Module Tasks:

What will you do throughout the module?

  • Apply for jobs I'm most interested in
  • Attend meetups

Weekly Tasks:

What will you do throughout each week?

  • Cold outreach, follow-ups

What I Will Work on with Meg

What advice do you need? What would be helpful to talk through? Let Meg know here!

  • How do I keep it simple and just show that a) I'm not an asshole and b) I LOVE software development?
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