If graduating seemed scary before, graduating into a global pandemic and recession is absolutely frightening. The world is a mess and maybe your resume is too. We have quite a lot of experience working with college students and recent grads, so we have compiled some tips and tricks to make this transition easier and hopefully help you land a job!
Entering the tech industry can be very exciting and overwhelming at the same time, which means navigating the field can be intimidating, even for experienced programmers. The open-source, community-contributed nature of the industry means that popular software, languages, frameworks, and even roles themselves are constantly changing, which means the only way to stay up-to-date is to spend a lot of time immersing yourself. Thankfully, there are a few resources that make it easy to do just that, regardless of whether or not you’re a seasoned engineer or just trying to break into the field.
For those nerds out there reading this article I need you to know something. Researching this blog post and learning about these women felt like this scene from Avenger’s Endgame.
It happens to everyone; you spend hours – if not days – pouring over your code, tweaking, testing, and re-running your code, only to hit error after error. Finally, you realize you’ve indented a single line of code incorrectly. You are relieved, elated, furious at yourself, and emotionally exhausted. Here’s how to bug fix while maintaining your sanity.
If we know anything about veterans and active military folks, it’s that they are agile and excel in the face of uncertainty. And if we’ve learned one thing in 2020, it’s that we can pretty much count on uncertainty. That’s why we wanted to highlight an extraordinary and (at times) untapped resource for tech talent – military veterans.
It’s no secret that there is a shortage of diverse tech talent – but it’s not for lack of available candidates. So what is actually to blame for the lack of qualified and diverse talent? The hiring process. We’ve identified five ways to boost your talent pipeline with underrepresented people in technology and work within the long-term strategic approach of talent acquisition to drive business value, diversity, and inclusion across your organization.
Over the past decade, and even more in the past six months, technology has been the driver of digital transformation, and it’s moving at a breakneck speed. As we transition to a world that primarily functions online due to the COVID-19 pandemic, organizations of all sizes are being forced to optimize their development capabilities to remain competitive, offer clients new and approachable solutions, and keep their businesses operationally efficient.