How to get a junior developer job

🎓 View our courses: https://scrimba.com/links/all-courses Caitlyn Greffly is a software engineer and author who used to sell beer for a living! 🍻 She joins this stream with a plethora of hacks for cracking into the tech industry and landing that first programming job including: 🖥 Contents 🖥 0:00 - Introduction 1:35 - Caitlyn’s background - from selling beer to software engineer 4:45 - How did you present your skills from your previous career when you were looking for a software job? 7:55 - How did you become a software engineer? Where did you get that degree? 10:50 - How were you able to get your first job in the field? Do you think your skills were sufficient for the job 17:02 - Caitlyn’s book, “The Bootcamer’s Companion”: https://bootcamperscompanion.ck.page/products/bootcampers-companion?promo=SCRIMBA 20:10 - Caitlyn’s networking advice 27:10 - Have you been looking for "your place" in a company ? Or simply send a CV anywhere, just to get a job ? 32:10 - For a developer that just left a 6 month Bootcamp, how does one deal with the 2 years experience required for a junior developer role? 35:25 - What to expect in the interview process 44:20 - Is it advisable to cite in your CV a youtube channel where you might show a part of your coding process? 46:15 - What do you think about learning from bootcamps and working at the same time? 49:42 - What was the most difficult thing in learning to code in your experience? 55:08 - Imposter syndrome 🔗 Useful links: 📕 Caitlyn's book: https://bootcamperscompanion.ck.page/products/bootcampers-companion?promo=SCRIMBA ✏️ Caitlyn's Dev.to https://dev.to/thecaitcode 💻 Caitlyn's website: https://caitlyngreffly.com/ 💻Check out Scrimba’s interactive learning platform: Scrimba: https://scrimba.com/ 🐦Say hi on Twitter: Scrimba: https://twitter.com/scrimba Leanne: https://twitter.com/RybaLeanne Caitlyn: https://twitter.com/thecaitcode