Difficult Job Market?

• Increasing numbers of skilled graduates competing for jobs
• Automation of middle-class jobs
• Globalisation and outsourcing

Agile

Rebels

Some Statistics

• 27% all job growth in London from the tech sector
•  A study found Britain will need 750,000 more tech workers by 2017
• 2011 had only 56,000 computer graduates - a 23.3% drop over the last 10 years  

it "will be protected from rebels" do
  expect(death_star).to_not have_obvious_backdoor
end

Your unfair advantage

Be inspired: keep learning

What senior developers like me look for:

• RSpec/Jasmine (TDD)
• Cucumber (BDD)
• Refactoring
• Design Patterns
• Outside in testing (feature tests, then unit tests)
• Encapsulation
• SOLID (in particular Single Responsibility Principle)