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Career Advice for Beginner Software Engineers
Tech Talent South
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About Me
Ramu PulipatiCo-founded botsplash.com
Chat messaging products for news media and small businesses
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Agenda
• Finding A Job• Working on the Job• Building Products• Personal Development
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Looking for Job
Finding a right job take time and effort
Read advice from Felix Feng blog
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Plan, Prepare, Execute
Indeed.comTrends
Use LinkedIn to reach out
Join Meetup Groups
Prepare on Business & Tech Solutions
Recent analysis of a tech company showed that 72% of their new hires used MOOC or boot
camps
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Charlotte Tech Opportunities
Marketing Finance / Insurance Social Media
E-commerce Healthcare Engineering
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Job Preferences
Tech Products
FulltimePositions
Agency Positions
Consulting Firms Volunteering Personal
Projects
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Job Positions
Front End / Backend
Data Analyst / Analytics
Scrum / PM
UI/UX Designer
Dev Ops / IT Support
SEO / SEM
/Product
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Job Trends
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Working the Job
• Setup week, 30, 90 and 6 month goals• Use mentors/coaches but be prepared• Provide business value and monitor results• Take responsibility, learn from mistakes• Team success is key but it is not your family• Think like an entrepreneur
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Tech Projects
Greenfield (new)
Brownfield (old)
3rd Party / CRM /
Integrations
Revenue Generating
Customer Focused
Internal Projects
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Agile in Organization
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Your Roles
Solutions Architect
Business / Customers /
Sales
Analytics / SEO / SEM
DEV / TEST / Dev. Ops Designer / UX Product
Owner
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Product Lifecycle
From Tim McMohan ALeanJourney.com
Enterprise Focused
From Laurance McCahill
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Build your own product
Idea Smoke Test Find resources
Design Work on POC Release
Monitor Results
Take feedback
Pivot / Evolve
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Personal Development
• Follow Hacker News• Build side projects• Local meetups and hackathons• Continuous learning
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Questions?
