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"I honestly don't understand how you can treat a candidate like trash." Senior Software Engineer compiled a list of tips for aspiring IT professionals that will help them break into IT
Senior Software Engineer Oleksandr Kazmirchuk has compiled a list of useful tips for IT beginners looking for a job, based on the experience of his wife, who has just gone through this path.
Senior Software Engineer Oleksandr Kazmirchuk has compiled a list of useful tips for IT beginners looking for a job, based on the experience of his wife, who has just gone through this path.
«Recently, my wife found her first job in IT, for a junior full-stack position. The search took several months and it was difficult, especially with the complete silence of „domestic“ companies, when she spent a day or two on a test task. To be honest, even I was burned out, and I frankly do not understand how you can treat a candidate like garbage, simply because he is in a much weaker position. But these are the „scraps“ of our IT, which is burying itself, so there is no point in stopping there,» the IT worker said .
Oleksandr noted that there were also good companies where recruiters would write back after the test, give feedback, and later make an offer. «So overall, it’s not as bad as they often write on LinkedIn,» he added.
The developer has compiled a short list of tips for beginners looking for a job in Ukrainian IT.
The courses don’t work. «I bought the famous Mate academy, it was about a year and a half ago and it cost about $1,500. The content looked ok, and I took it to at least consolidate the basics, because I worked a lot, moved from Ukraine, and didn’t have time to mentor. I haven’t seen a worse shit, so I switched to Udemy + Youtube + correction of learning and a little mentoring, after that the process went,» Oleksandr shared his experience. Meanwhile, in the comments to the post, IT people are telling us not to generalize and give dozens of examples when Mate academy helped them realize themselves in the profession from scratch.
Find someone to help you study. «At best, one of your friends will recommend courses, a development vector, etc. If there are none, you can try to find a mentor. I think I’ll write about what to look for when choosing, given the number of IT scammers on the Internet,» he added.
Most likely, you are looking for vacancies in Frontend, think about whether you need it. «When searching for frontend positions, there were a lot of reviews, 300 — 800 (I used to think it was IT IPSO), while for full-stack/backend, 30 — 100,» the developer argues.
Improve your hard skills. These tips apply to the stage when your CV has passed the recruiter’s check and made it to the reviewer’s desk. Nobody is interested in your code in pet projects on Github. Focus on the visuals — draw the architecture in the conditional Excalidraw; deploy to some free PaaS (Vercel, Heroku, Firebase…); briefly describe the solutions and technologies you used; get a couple of certifications, properly format your CV (if you are a beginner, don’t be shy about adding libraries, frameworks and approaches you used); list the projects you worked on, your responsibility and the technologies used — the main thing here is not to overdo it, no one will read a long text.
If no one replies, stop and try to figure out what you’re doing wrong or what’s missing. «The most pointless thing you can do is keep beating your head against the wall without looking back,» explains the IT guy.
Work for free. «There are a lot of crappy projects online now that you can join as a developer and get something similar to commercial experience,» advises Oleksandr.
Don’t despair. «The main thing here is not to give up and to understand that with the right approach and constant retrospective, you will 100% find a job,» he sums up.
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