Below are resources to aid you in your job search. Be sure to follow the guidelines below to ensure a strong online presence. Before you start, Google yourself to make sure there's nothing that you aren't proud of!
Full Stack Post Grad Slides: 'What to Expect When You're Expecting (a job)'
For those who are graduating from the Advanced JS, Node, React class, please view this doc here.
- PDX Code Guild Support Groups
- Getting Noticed
- Gaining Experience
- Looking for Open Opportunities
- Applying to Jobs
- Staying Organized
Be sure to join the following Slack groups:
The first step to getting a job is getting noticed. To get that first initial encounter with recruiters, please read the following tutorials:
| Unit | Topic |
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| Resume | |
| Resume Resources | |
| Github | |
| Front End Portfolios | |
| Back End Portfolios |
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| Full Stack Portfolios | CodeSandBox |
| Networking & Community Support |
| Type | Note |
|---|---|
| Open Source Projects |
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| Type | Note |
|---|---|
| Job Boards | traditional, tech specific, and specific groups |
| 60+ sites to look for developer jobs | a Twitter thread |
| Apprenticeships | growing list of apprenticeships that accept applicants from non-technical backgrounds |
| Remote Internships & Open Source Projects | video |
"75 percent of job applications are rejected before they are seen by human eyes." - Forbes
Before applying to jobs, you should make sure your resume is a good match for the job description. Otherwise, your application will never make it pass the Applicant Tracking System (ATS). Use Jobscan to analyze your chances before applying. Jobscan will give you feedback as to what keywords your resume is missing.
| Resource | Note |
|---|---|
| Jobscan | The smart way to beat resume filters |
| Forbes | How To Get Your Resume Read By An Employer |
| TopResume.com | What Is an ATS? How to Write a Resume to Beat the Bots |
| The Muse | Beat the Robots: How to Get Your Resume Past the System & Into Human Hands |
- 14 Tips for Skype Interview Success
- Average to Googler in Four Weeks: A Study Plan
- Geeks for Geeks
- Tips & Tricks for the Nontraditional Engineer
- Tips and Guidelines by Hackerrank
- Acing the Non-Technical Interview
- Impressing Technical Interviewers: Mid to Senior Candidates
- Craft Your Engineering Career Story
- Example coding interview (video)
- Interview Script - How it will go and what you should say!
- Time Complexity & Data Structures: Cracking Coding Interview (video)
- Acing the Coding Interview by Thinking in Patterns (video)
- Visualising data structures and algorithms through animation
- The top data structures you should know for your next coding interview
Theory is great but let's put it to action.
- HackerRank Interview Preparation Kit
- Interview Prep by Freecodecamp.org
- the last section offers a ton of challenges
Recommendations from Google Engineers:
- Project Euler
- Interview Preparation Kit by Hackerrank
- Leetcode
- 500 Data Structures and Algorithms
- Top 10 Algos in Interview Questions
- Interview Puzzles
Mock Interviews will be offer by appointment only. For more info, please read our Mock Interview documentation.