RRU 020: How to Get a Job (Especially for New Developers) with Charles Max Wood

Panel:

• Charles Max Wood
• Lucas Reis
• Sia Karamalegos

In this episode, the React Round Up panelists talk about finding a job as a developer. Charles is getting ready to release a course on finding a job and he finds that he is always getting asked about how new developers can find a job. They talk about how they all found their first coder job, picking your target company, and understanding what you want in a job. They also touch on Charles’ upcoming course, the importance of showing initiative, and more! In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

• Sign up to chat with Charles at DevChat.tv/15Minutes
• Why they want to touch on this topic
• Get used to failure
• CodeSchool
• Hack Night meetup
• Going to meetups to slowly start networking
• Making friends with developers in your community
• Networking before you need a job
• Learning and helping mindset
• Don’t be afraid to ask if people are hiring
• How did you figure out what your target company was?
• Checking out the culture of a company
• Understanding the travel involved
• Figure out what you like in a job as you go
• Always be looking at your portfolio and resume
• Gain as much experience as you can everywhere you go
• Stick to learning one language/system
• Really master the languages/systems of the company you want to uses
• Show initiative
• Finding a champion at your target company
• And much, much more!

Links:

• DevChat.tv/15Minutes
• CodeSchool
• Hack Night meetup
• Charles’ Course
• How to interview your interviewers blog post
• Ruby Rogues Episode 184

Sponsors

• Kendo UI
• Digital Ocean
• FreshBooks

Picks: Charles

• Orphan Black
• His Course

Lucas

• The Best Software Engineering Paper You Haven’t Read

Sia

• Family

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