JobActionPlan.md

Module 4 Goals

• Have 3 interviews lined up, hopefully already having done 1 or 2
• Have sat down with as many people as possible to talk about the job world and the Denver Tech Scene
• Publish 1-2 articles on medium/freecodecamp/something of the sort
• Publish a personal portfolio website

Strategy To Achieve Goals:

In this section, break down your longterm goal into smaller goals that you want to work on each week and/or day

• Spend an hour every day researching companies/reaching out to employees of those companies
• Send out at least 3-5 emails every week to people I'm interested in meeting with
• Reach out to friends that I already know who are developers in Denver
• Work on my personal protfolio website every other day (a task/goal every time I work)
• Write a rough draft of one article over the break
• polish rough draft in first week of school
• start writing second article during second week of school
• meet with Jeff Duke about personal website once I have a rough draft and am ready to start working on getting it live

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

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

• Honestly, I'm just going to be trying to pass Mod 4 and keep up with all of the job search/personal portfolio projects, so coding extras will be kept at a minimum
• if I have time, I'd like to dive into React Native

Opportunities Research:

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

• I'll keep adding to my Trello Board and trying to tick off tasks from it each day
• the Trello Board has already helped me keep organized and focused on the tasks at hand

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?

• I've already talked to a few mentors about their networking practices
• I've been in contact with Jeff Duke and my good friend Julian about networking skills and practices as well and how to get my name out into the tech scene
• I will continue to reach out as much as possible, but I need to do more research of companies in Denver before this starts again

Personal Branding (A personal branding section is optional):

• This will mostly be my personal portfolio website

Timeline:

What will you do when?

• Outlined mostly in Strategies section
• Generally:
  • Have interviews, at least, by the end of the module (ideally, one job offer)
  • Have personal website built and deployed by end of second week of next module
  • have an article published by the end of the 3rd week of the module
  • Also consider giving a lightning talk at a meetup

Module Tasks:

What will you do throughout the module?

• Personal Website
• publish an article
• cold outreach
• meetups galore!

Weekly Tasks:

What will you do throughout each week?

• At least one meetup per week
• 3-5 cold outreach emails per week

What I Will Work on with Meg

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

• Nothing yet, but I gurantee I'll have something soon as I start diving into the job search