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