Building a better life for my family, the potential of beginning generational wealth, helping to establish a black presence in tech, showing young black people there is another way, buying back Grandma's house.
Differentiate myself from other junior developers. Get a feel for how I am perceived by different varieties of tech companies.
Junior fullstack developer. I want to find a place with a programming wiz nearby.
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? How do they relate to the values and goals you have for yourself in your job search?
- Digitial Consultancy
- NonProfit/GovTech
- Art/Fashion
- Music
- Sports (football)
I'm not exactly sure how to emphasize my race as a means to do work related to benefitting my race. Actually as I write this it kind of feels weird. I think the fact that I am the only black student in my cohort is interesting, but how will I showcase that other than in person.
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
Couldn't figure out how to link the actual resume yet. `
7209872633
1039 S. Parker Rd. DENVER, Colorado
My experience lends itsellf to my ability to empathize with people. Understanding carried me through many tough situations in hospitality, and prompted me to make this career shift. I love people, and I can benefit my community and possibly the world through technology.
09/2020
Front End Engineering • DENVER, Colorado
Currently completing courses in software development.
05/2013
English • Alamosa, Colorado
Played the position of Center on the school football team from 2010 to 2013
12/2009
Liberal Arts • Coalinga, California
Played the position of Center on the school football team from 2010 to 2013
4x Dean's List
All State Football Selection
All Conference Academic Selection
Javascript
HTML
CSS
Jquery
React
PostgreSQL
Express.js
Sass (Syntactically Awesome Style Sheets)
SCSS (Sassy Cascading Style Sheets)
08/2018 - 10/2019
Assistant Bar Manager • DENVER, Colorado
Cash handling, and checkout procedures
Team leadership including Health Code adherence
Guest Service
04/2016 - 07/2018
Manager • DENVER, Colorado
Scheduling
Conflict resolution (patrons and staff)
Inventory
Cash handling and checkout procedures
Team leadership including Health Code adherence
Guest Service
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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 Turing2003 Upload your resume Based on the feedback you received from CV Compiler, what updates will you make to your resume?
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? How will you continue to add to this to portray your story and showcase the kind of work that demonstrates your brand?\ 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.
Find a position or use a position you've put on your Huntr board and write a cover letter for that position in a Google doc or gist. Reference these cover letter resources as well as the session to complete your cover letter.
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Dear (Megan Kilpatrick, CEO, in the event that I cannot find a hiring manager),
My adevnture in software development has been both the most taxing and rewarding adventure that I have ever been on. And I am excited by the prospect of continuing that adventure at Alloy Magnetic. There is an intersection between technology and service that has been calling my name for much of the last 4 years, and in November of 2019, I began the process of answering. I would love the chance to join your team as a Jr. Front-End Developer. My experience is in hospitality management, and I pride myself on how I treat others. There is something awesome about watching a person smile over a plate of fries, but I feel I was missing out on opportunities to directly and positively effect the lives of others.
My team mentality has been refined during my time at Turing School of Software Development. It is hard to start learning things you have little or no concept of, with people you don't know. Egos have to be sacrificed to a certain extent in order for everyone to grow. Teamwork has been essential to my personal success, and the success of every team I have been on. My team first mentality originated over years of two-a-days in August sun, and cultivated in the resturaunt industry. I learned to communicate with diverse and eclectic groups of individuals, empathize with their unique stories, and problem solve as a collective. I learned how to lead and how to follow, and that getting out of the way isn't my style.
I swear I felt like Harry Potter the first time I got an h1 to show up in the browser, and the joy I had watching a for loop increment in the console was pure and innocent and also made me feel like the smartest person ever. My goal is to take my newest passion of software development, combine it with my favorite skill as a team member, and use it to complete my life's calling, which is to make my community a better place.
I appreciate your reading this! `
Post the link to your cover letter here Review your cover letter with a peer some time this week. What feedback did your partner give you? What next steps will you take to make your cover letter even stronger?
If you were to apply to this position (and you should!), how will you customize your resume for it? What other next steps would you need to take here?
I will apply for this position. I am not exactly sure how I would update my resume, I could really use a resume session again.
Back to your resume and cover letter you've been working on: What other next steps do you want to take to make these two components stronger? Outreach Brainstorming: Either explore the company you wrote a cover letter for or find a new company to explore this week; Go to their company LinkedIn page and start to explore the employees. Who are a couple people you could reach out to? Why? Finalize Your Plan: Who have you decided to reach out to? Why that person? How will you contact them? What do you want to talk to them about? How will you follow up? Execute your plan: Reach out to your contact THIS WEEK. If possible, reach out to more than one person OR find a meetup to attend also. What happened? What did you learn about the company? What other next steps should you take for pursuing this company? Be sure to update this in Huntr.
Activities: what questions do you have about the activities that a software developer does on a daily basis?
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how often do you interact with other developers or supervisors?
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how long do you take for lunch?
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how do you do code reviews?
Environment: what questions do you have about the overall environment and culture of this workplace?
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are there any black developers that you know? other underrepresented groups?
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do you feel like the company is empathetic with the lives of underrepresented groups?
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do you enjoy your job?
Interactions: what questions do you have about the team at this company? What do you hope to see in your interactions during the shadow?
Objects: what questions do you have about the code or the product?
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how many languages do you work with?
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how long are sprints?
Users: what questions do you have about how the company interacts with their users?
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After the Job Shadow, reflect on the same questions; what are your takeaways from the shadow?
Activities: what was engaging to the person/people you shadowed?
My shadow was really interesting. She came from a job centered around helping less fortunate people, but she also felt she lost part of herself in her work.
Environment: what did you notice about how they talked about the culture and environment of this company?
She showed me more than she spoke about it. I got to sit in on the daily stand up. It looked a lot like what we do at Turing. just more organized/professional, and way more goal oriented.
Interactions: what did you notice about your interactions with this person/people?
She seemed very open to answering whatever questions I had and even suggested that I tell her when I get closer to graduation to see if they're hiring.
Objects: what did you learn about their approach to code and/or product development?
I got to see that❤️ they test their code twice, and that the code review process is significantly more involved than what we do (even tyhough we are taught and encouraged to be more thorough)
Users: what did you learn about their approach to their users?
N/A
What are your main takeaways from the shadow? How will you use this information to help you with your job search strategy?
I think given enough time people kind of gravitate to me which can be good and bad. Opportunities will arise, and I have to be prepared to make the best out of them. My strategy says I need to be as comfortable with the technical side of technical interviews as I am with the storytelling part.
Pick a successful project and write about it with the STAR method (What was the situation/scenario of the project? What was the task/target of the project? What action steps did you take? What were the results?):
S: My most recent project was a task! It was the group stretch project, where we elect a new technology to teach ourselves. We decided to learn some basic backend functionality. Rough.
T: We did a good job of defining the relationship as a group. We had a really good plan about how we would pair and divide and conquor. Unfortunately, I made a mistake downloading PostgreSQL. And things would grow tougher before they grew better.
A: I knew within the first couple hours of making the mistake it was one I was ill equipped to handle on my own. I reached out to my teachers and trouble shot with them, for what turned into days, and they couldn't help either. But by reaching out we found an instructor from another program to help and the issue got resolved. In between troubleshooting, I paired with my team on slack and tuple. Didn't miss any learning goals, and had fun trying something new.
R: Lesson learned is that backend software development isn't for the faint of heart.
Write about a time you failed and what you learned from that experience:
I had a performance I was really nervous about and I asked my DJ to play my vocal track behind my performance. For whatever reason that didn't happen and I froze over the instrumental track he played. Preperation is essential.
Write about how you've approached working with a team using a specific example:
I cannot count on my team as a parachute for my mistakes or shortcomings. Because there is enough of a chance they don't play a perfect game and we all look terrible together. Do my job everyday to the best of my abilities.
What other stories will you prepare to share?
I have carried so many drunk people out of bars...
Do some research into your top companies' tech stacks; what do you already know? What can you compare to your own learning? What do you need to learn more about?
Using this interview prep resource doc, pick out at least 3 resources you will use to prepare for interviews as well as 3 behavioral questions you could practice:
Taking stock of where you are: what have you accomplished this module? What have you learned? Where are you stuck (have you not been able to follow through on outreach? Is your resume not finished?)?
I have accomplished one cover letter, and a below average resume. I have learned the importance fo being prepared at all levels for the jub hunt. Gotta hustle for opportunuties, gotta have a solid and well designed cover letter and resume, have to master my story and how it relates to my technical abilities.
Create plans for 3 different companies you want to target:
Questions to reflect on here: Why do you like this company? What makes you want to work there? Why are you a good fit for this company? What do you bring to the company? What transferable skills do you have? What do you already know about the company (product, team, culture, company size, location, etc.)? What do you need to learn?
Steps to take:
Outreach: look at the company’s LinkedIn page: who could you reach out to? What questions do you want to ask that person? Experience: once you've made a connection at the company, how could you find out more? Consider setting up a job shadow or exploring their tech stack in your projects Read back over the plan. How does it reflect your vision?
Imagine that you get the job. A year later, what have you gained from this experience? How have you started to fulfill your vision?
Plan #1:
Plan #2:
Plan #3:
Make it actionable: rank each plan on a scale of 1-5 for how much your plan aligns with the following: Available resources to help you pursue it: contacts, time, knowledge of the company, etc. Coherence: how it aligns with your career vision Confidence level: how feasible does this feel to you? How excited you are about it Now, pick the plan with the highest numbers across the board. What steps will you take next to pursue this strategy as you go into the next module?
Jeremiah, great job catching up with most of. earlier weeks. In reading your interview prep responses, I would suggest relating your answers to the team dynamics at turing in your project work. Lets brainstorm on what other professionals' experiences would be best. You missed our scheduled meeting on Friday. Lets plan on meeting soon. I would like to review a few items. Please add a mod 4 section.