Ciklum Open Day November 2016
IT Career Advice or How to get your first job in IT
Olga Samarina, People Partner
1. Learning beside studying: Where to study? What to learn?
2. IT-sphere buzzwords: before you are in
3. Do you speak English?
4. Self-development plan
5. Get public!
6. Useful links
7. Q&A
Agenda:
Learning beside studying: Where to study?
Education in IT companies
Open source Education
Online resources
Communities
Offline courses
Learning beside studying: What to learn?
Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
Benjamin Franklin
Technology landscape
Product Life Cycle
Roles in product life cycle
Methodologies (Waterfall, Lean/Kanban and SCRUM)
Recruitment – refers to the overall process of attracting, selecting and appointing suitable candidates for jobs (either permanent or temporary) within an organization.
CV (Curriculum vitae) – is a written overview of a person's experience and other qualifications.
Job Interview – is a one-on-one interview consisting of a conversation between a job applicant and a representative of an employer which is conducted to assess whether the applicant should be hired.
Job offer – is an invitation for a potential employee, whether he or she has applied for a job, or not, to become an employee in your organization.
IT-sphere buzzwords: before you are in
Do you speak English?If you think so then you can:
Read and understand a job description
Compose a CV
Pass an interview in English
Ask the client for more details
Ask the community for an advice
Self-development plan5th course
4th course
3rd course
2nd course
1st course
Just learning Get to know processesand technologies.
Making choice where to go further.Start attending courses in IT companies.
Get your first job in IT (part time or full time)
Be promoted to a MIDDLE
Self-development plan
Directionsof self-
education
Technologiesand
tools
Englishlanguage
ManagementMethodologies
Businessmodels
Rolesin
SWDLC
Trainyour
soft skills‐
Get public!
Keep up to date in Social Media & Tech (Linkedin, Facebook, Github, Meetup)
Attend community’s meetups
Knowledge-sharing (news, useful links)
Useful links:Programming(free):https://www.codecademy.com/https://www.coursera.org/http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htmhttp://ocw.mit.edu/courses/intro-programming/ https://www.class-central.com/ - aggregator of online courses
Programming(paid):https://www.codeschool.com/https://teamtreehouse.com/
Education in IT companies:http://www.returnonintelligence.com.ua/company/education/courses/http://isd.dp.ua/ru/career-ru/education-ru.htmlhttps://softserve.ua/ru/university/it-academy/
Useful links:IT Educational Centers:http://www.levelup.dp.ua/http://skillup.com.ua/http://itschool-hillel.org/http://itstep.dp.ua/
Online resources and communities:http://dou.ua/https://habrahabr.ru/http://qacommunity.com.ua/
Some other useful websites: http://stackoverflow.com/ - wiki for Software developers https://github.com/ - open source https://www.producthunt.com/ http://www.meetup.com/
Q&A
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