Before we begin . . .

Where do you want to go?

Please take a few minutes and jot down your answers to the following questions:

• What role do you want?
• What skills does that role require?
• How do you plan to get there?

Making your Career Happen

Barry O'Sullivan 2018

@barryosull

Hands-on Session Structure

1. Key Concepts
2. Discuss your domains
3. Map your domain
4. Networking
5. Conclusion

Key Concepts

Types of Employment

• Employee
• Freelancer
• Contractor
• Entrepreneur

• Junior
• Mid
• Senior
• Lead
• Principal

Experience Levels

Company Size

• Startup
• Small
• Medium
• Large
• Enterprise

Skills

• Language
• Software Design
• Architecture
• Infrastructure
• Networking
• Testing
• BDD
• DDD
• GIT
• Nginx
• Continuous Integration
• Business
• Finance
• Sales
• Confidence (in self and team)
• Clean Code
• Legacy Wrangler
• TDD
• QA

• Frameworks
• Training
• Collaborating
• Presenting
• Data Analysis
• UI/UX
• Product Dev
• Interviewing
• Management
• Project Management
• Overcoming inferiority complex
• DDD (Document Driven Design)
• Database
• Caching
• HTTP Caching (Varnish)
• AWS/Could
• Agile
• Scrum
• XP

What's missing?

What skills do you think you need in software development?

• Split into groups of 2 to 4
• For 5 minutes, discuss the skills you think are missing 
• Tell the room what you think

The Role Path

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Additions:

• Director of X
• Principle Architect
• Tech Lead
• Solution Architect
• Application Owner
• QA Engineer
• QA Tester

What's missing?

What are the other roles/paths that someone could take

• Split into groups of 2 to 4
• For 5 minutes, discuss the roles you think are missing
• Tell the room what you think

Ways to Progress

Gaining new Skills:

• Training
• Practice
• Mentoring
• Dive in the deepend

Moving into a role:

• Wait for a Role to open up
• Join a startup
• Switch company

Networking (30mins)

• Take two nametags
• Write your name on one. On the other, write:

1. The role you have
2. The role/skill/experience you want

• Talk to people that can help
  or
• Talk to people that you can help
• Share tips/techniques on how to progress your career!

Conclusions

What discoveries have we made tonight?