Course Summary: Navigating a Career in Software Development

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Navigating a career in software development, whether just starting out or well into it, can be very daunting. This is because beyond the soup of keywords, buzzwords, and other technical terminology, you have to make sense out of everything from inconsistent job titles to figuring out if you are being paid enough. Software development also isn’t just a single role called “software developer”, as there are many types of specializations, so it is critical to understand how those different roles are a part of your own career journey. Therefore, the first section of the course is dedicated to getting you up to speed on the basics of roles, technology stack, startups, getting paid, benefits, and compensation.

With the basics in place, this course moves into the basics of finding a job. This both gives an overview of the entire process as well as the involved resources, and includes getting tactical with tools and techniques for managing conversations, interviews, and otherwise your schedule. This section of the course will cover getting experience, resumes, recruiters, the job search, doing job researching, and then with how to navigate the interview process.

0:00 Questions about Software Dev
0:49 Tech Stack
1:58 Benefits
2:53 Getting Experience
3:15 Resumes
3:29 Recruiters
3:44 Job Searching
4:08 Job Research