How to make up for little experience and land a role as a full stack developer or similar?
LinkedIn, your portfolio website, and a decent resume are among the few things that will benefit your journey towards getting an interview.
Other tips towards success may include utilizing specific discord channels, deliberate practice, and taking breaks.
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It will likely be highly beneficial to practice interviewing. Whether that’s with an inanimate object like a (yellow rubber duck), family, or friends, it’ll help immensely. So practice interviewing!
Regardless of the odds, all you need is that one really good offer! (even when you only have a 1% to 5% chance of being given an interview offer in certain cases)
Definitely have a good resume, a decent LinkedIn, a portfolio website, and an email to follow up on potential opportunities.
In a future post, I will try to explain in more detail how to make up for a lack of experience, when to start applying for jobs, and where are the jobs.
It’s important for others to have access to what you’ve done and how you’ve done it.
Having relevant skills, being unique / personalized, having an online link to projects, and interview skills will all make a big impact.
What if you don’t have enough experience:
- Have a GitHub set up
- Have a portfolio website
- Have 1 to 2 big projects
- Create a blog post (such as through Medium)
- Contribute to open source
- Participate in a hackathon
Your portfolio should be a way for you to showcase your big projects and demonstrate your value. This should reflect what job you want.
Where to find jobs?
I’ll go into more detail in this in future posts but it’s important to know when to start applying. I would suggest right a way!
Win, lose, pass, or fail, you will gain valuable skills to improve and getting better at practicing is the key. The sooner you start interviewing the better!
Look into salary ranges for specific positions. Understand when it is important to know more about the backend or frontend for any given developer role. Look into the years of experience and technologies each company you’re interested in is using. Don’t let the years of experience prevent you from applying to an opportunity.
Understanding data structures and algorithms will be a great place to start when deciding how much fundamentals you should know going into an interview. Do you know fundamental building blocks of programming like data structures and algorithms?
Build something more than hello world or a to do list. Build something that solves problems similar to what the company you’re interested in might be trying to build / solve.
Your skills will continue to grow. Once you meet the baseline, the rest comes down to non technical parts.
If you never ask, the answer is always no.
If you wait until you’re ready, you are already applying too late.
Get out there and apply!
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