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Lucy Conklin Module 4 Action Plan.md

Lucy Conklin Module 4 Action Plan

Module 4 Goals

By the last week of Mod 4 I would like to have at least one job offer.

Achieve 100 Rejections inspired by this

Strategy To Achieve Goals:

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

  • Continue to dive into data-visualization and best practices in web design by integrating them into one school or personal project.
  • Make sure my projects are portfolio ready: meaning robust README files, solid performance and features (even if I have to scale back a bit), and refactored code.
  • Write a technical blog post on Medium about something.
  • Work through 10 more exercisms in Ruby
  • Work through 10 exercisms in JavaScript

Opportunities Research:

Reach out to people at 5 remote companies.

Take up Name.com on their offer of a sandwich one week.

Get someone to give me a practice technical interview.

Virtually attend one of the Monday night interview prep sessions.

Cold Outreach/Network:

Find other Turing grads who work remotely or have worked remotely and set up meetings with them.

Go to one Meetup a week.

Meet with a potential employer in person in Augusta in March.

Personal Branding

I need a polished developer website, and work on my Stack Overflow profile.

Timeline:

Module Tasks:

  • before mod 4 set up Turing profile
  • Polish up personal website

Weekly Tasks:

  1. Attend one Meetup Event per week
  2. Send one custom cover letter to a company that I am very intersted in working with
  3. Send two general applications (online forms or general postings)
  4. Reach out to one new person (remote), reach out to one new person (Augusta)
  5. Do three Interview Cake Questions

Daily Tasks:

  1. Resarch one company I would like to work for
  2. Update Project Rainforest spreadsheet

What I Will Work on with Meg

Personal Branding: My current website is a showcase for my illustration work. Should I take it down while I job search? I'd love to have a developer website up with some cool D3 animations or something. Is that even worth my time? It seems like employers are probably more concerned with Github profiles, but I don't want to mislead anyone into thinking I am not serious about being a software developer.

Cold Outreach: I am having a lot of trouble getting contact information for people at remote companies I want to work for. I almost never get responses. Then if I do connect with someone over Google Hangouts or Skype, I can barely understand what they are saying and the quality is terrible. Any advice? Should I try tweeting at these people? LinkedIn messages have gotten me nowhere.

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