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Refine your career vision:

What are the values that will drive your job search?

  • I am family oriented
  • I want to have the flexibility to work from home.
  • Ethics are also iportant
  • Team work is importat
  • I thrive in multicultural enviroments
  • Care about work-life balance

What are your goals for your job search? What kind of role do you see yourself pursuing in your job search?

  • My goal is to find a job as a developer and using the knowledge I gained from my time at Turing.
  • I want to learn multiple companies values
  • I want to learn about the companies inclusivity policy
  • I want to be able to reach out to people from the community and ask for advice
  • I want to research and connect with employes from companies I feel interested in

Based on your latest version of your career vision, list the top 3-5 industries and companies you’ll pursue in your job search as of right now. Why did you pick these industries/companies?

  • education, because i am interested in conpanies who are trying to bring these resources to other communities
  • privacy, I think privacy is important
  • food, I have a deep passion on how to solve food scarcity issues

How do they relate to the values and goals you have for yourself in your job search?

  • I think the whay these industries relate to my job search is that I am trying to find a job where I feel that is trying to solve social issues

Build your resume

What will you emphasize in your resume that directly relates to your targeted industries? Pick a template from those listed in the Templates section here Order your content in this way:

  • Header (Name + Software Developer OR Back End Engineer OR Front End Engineer, etc.)
  • Contact info
  • Summary
  • Skills
  • Projects
  • Experience
  • Education * Check out other resources here including the Resume Checklist * Link to your resume or include a screenshot here:

Upload your resume to CV Compiler by following these steps:

  • Go to https://cvcompiler.com/students/turingschool
  • Click on “Improve Your Student Resume”
  • Authorize it with either LinkedIn or GitHub
  • Fill out the fields with your Name and Email and the promo code Turing2005
  • Upload your resume
  • Based on the feedback you received from CV Compiler, what updates will you make to your resume?

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Set up your Turing Alumni Portfolio:

  • Log in with the link you got in your email. Going forward, log in at alumni.turing.io/user
  • Fill out all fields
  • Select “publish” before saving (projects must also have “published” selected)

Reflection questions:

What do you want this portfolio to say about you?

  • I want it to be a window to my personanlity and to showcase the projects I have worked on do far.

How will you continue to add to this to portray your story and showcase the kind of work that demonstrates your brand?\

  • I'd like to add projects as I work with new technologies

Ian’s workshop this week is designed to help you break down your interest in specific industries even further by exploring their tech stacks to decide if you want to utilize any of their tools in upcoming projects. Make a copy of his template here and post a link to your copy here to show what research you’ve completed. You can also link this research to your Huntr board.

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