IT career advice or how to get your first job in IT
1. Ciklum Open DayApril 2016
IT CareerAdvice or How to get your first
job in IT
Olga Samarina, People Partner
2. 1. Learning beside studying: Where to study? What to learn?
2. IT-sphere buzzwords: before you are in
3. Do you speak English?
4. Self-development plan
5. Get public!
6. CV. Where to post it?
7. Useful links
8. Q&A
Agenda:
3. Learning beside studying: Where to study?
Education in IT companies
Open source Education
Online resources
Communities
Offline courses
4. Learning beside studying: What to learn?
Tell me and I forget.
Teach me and I remember.
Involve me and I learn.
Benjamin Franklin
Technology landscape
Product Life Cycle
Roles in product life cycle
Methodologies (Waterfall,
Lean/Kanban and SCRUM)
5. Recruitment – refers to the overall process of attracting, selecting and appointing
suitable candidates for jobs (either permanent or temporary) within an organization.
CV (Curriculum vitae) – is a written overview of a person's experience and other
qualifications.
Job Interview – is a one-on-one interview consisting of a conversation between a job
applicant and a representative of an employer which is conducted to assess whether
the applicant should be hired.
Job offer – is an invitation for a potential employee, whether he or she has applied for
a job, or not, to become an employee in your organization.
IT-sphere buzzwords: before you are in
6. Do you speak English?
If you think so then you can:
Read and understand a job
description
Compose a CV
Pass an interview in English
Ask the client for more details
Ask the community for an advice
7. Self-development plan
5th
course
4th course
3rd course
2nd course
1st course
Just learning
Get to know processes
and technologies.
Making choice where to go further.
Start attending courses in IT
companies.
Get your first job in IT (part time or full time)
Be promoted to a MIDDLE
9. Get public!
Keep up to date in Social Media &
Tech (Linkedin, Facebook, Github,
Meetup)
Attend community’s meetups
Knowledge-sharing (news, useful
links)
10. CV. Where to post it?
https://www.linkedin.com/
http://www.work.ua/
https://hh.ua/
http://rabota.ua/
http://dou.ua/
12. Useful links:
IT Educational Centers:
http://www.levelup.dp.ua/
http://skillup.com.ua/
http://itschool-hillel.org/
http://itstep.dp.ua/
Online resources and communities:
http://dou.ua/
https://habrahabr.ru/
http://qacommunity.com.ua/
Some other useful websites:
http://stackoverflow.com/ - wiki for Software developers
https://github.com/ - open source
https://www.producthunt.com/
http://www.meetup.com/