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Breaking Into a Technology Career with a Non-Traditional Background

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Lessons

Introduction
- Introduction
- Get the Slides
What Employers Really Care About
- What you can build vs. what you’ve learned
- The importance of communication skills
- Technical certifications: are they worth it? And some cultural caveats.
- ACTIVITY: Tailor your resume or C.V. to highlight your accomplishments
Beating the Catch-22 of Experience
- Making your own experience
- Self-employment: is it for you?
- ACTIVITY: Identify 3 tech projects to tackle on your own
Building your Network
- Networking: why it’s essential, how to make new connections
- Casting a wider net to smaller companies
- ACTIVITY: Identify 3 organizations or projects to expand your network
The essential habits (that are more important than your background)
- Curiosity and lifelong learning
- Building things for fun
- Ruthless efficiency, a sense of ownership, and a bias for action
- ACTIVITY: Demonstrating these habits to a technical interviewer
Turning your Non-Traditional Background Into an Advantage
- A bias for simplicity and delivering results
- Self-motivation and approaching tech problems holistically
- Working backwards from the customer experience
- ACTIVITY: Prepare stories about applying your unique background to tech problems
Preparing for the Interview
- Turning behavioral interviewing to your advantage, and preparing for objections
- What to expect on interview day
- Filling educational gaps in computer science fundamentals
- Practice coding and system design interviews
- General interviewing tips
- ACTIVITY: Mock interview with a technical hiring manager
Wrapping up
- Conclusion – what we learned, and congratulations!

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