Well, long story short. I started my career in health and wellness. After college I worked as an independent personal trainer, before taking a position as a Wellness Director for a non-profit. In my career I sort of specialized in
- Who are you? Tell me about yourself?
- I got my start in health and wellness, first as a personal trainer... After a few years I turned my focus to corporate wellness. I took a position as the Wellness Director for a non-profit senior living facility in San Francisco.
- As I began my work there, I started to focus my energy on dimensions of wellness outside of the realm of purely physical or nutritional.
- I focused on helping people find their passion in life through some holistic lifestyle coaching methodologies that focused primarily on emotional and spritual well-being.
- As I was helping others find this balance, I started to realize that I wasn't living entirely in my truth... so I really started to dig to find what my passion was and what it is I wanted to be doing everyday.
- After taking on a technical project at work implementing a CRM system, I fell back in love with tech and the idea of working in the field full-time.
- 2 months after the project was over, I resigned from my position to pursue tech full-time. That was in April of 2016. Since then I've been studying full-stack software engineering full-time, and working on building fun and interesting projects. And although it's been very challenging, I can honestly say I'm happy for making the decision to follow my passion.
Brevity - How long should your answer be? Think of ways to shorten CS comment about college
The Accidental Techy, solving IT problems
- What have you been up to lately?
- Why are you changing careers?
As a holistic lifestyle coach, I've helped a lot of people find spiritual and emotional wellbeing by finding their passion. In order to live a life of more integrity, I had to turn that focus onto my self and ultimately I've found that joy and passion in software engineering.
- Why should we hire you?
- Why are you an engineer?
- 5mins: Judy and Punit model the interview
- 10-15mins: solo work! first pass/brain dump at answering
- 15mins: break into small groups! all folks read out answers, give feedback
- 10-15mins: make any edits you'd like
- 10mins: everyone present! hotseat peer interviewing
- becoming aware of your strengths
- having a strong positive pitch about yourself
- building a unique and authentic story: stand out
- knowing how to talk about the guild
- building confidence and being prepared
- getting good at delivery of answers
After we've developed our personal stories, we'll work on behavioral interviewing techniques.