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[Siamak]

Hello Siamak, how is it going with you bro? thanks for asking. it's going well for me so far, had an interview and had some test tasks to do. nothing fruitful came out of the interview because back then i didn't have my citizenship which makes it harder for companies to hire me as i automatically belong to a higher tax group i,e the company pays more taxes for hiring me. its not the end of the world as i got my citizenship today at long last and luckily the vacancies have increased so here is hoping. remember i had this career coach after finishing my bootcamp, well she hooked me up with another coach who deals with IT specialists who work for foreign companies so she helped me set up my resume so that it fits with the current hiring trend. As soon as i finish my paper work i will share it with you guys since it can help someone out just in case some of you are still looking for work.


speaking of challenges i think you will be perfectly fine with your attitude as long as you don't give up. we all go through these days where things don't get through to your mind right away the main thing is you keep trying over and over and in the end it will work. so i sincerely wish you and all the rest in this awesome thread all the best on your journey

I know how it feels to have citizenship issues, hope yours will be resolved soon.

 

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[Siamak]

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[Bisco]

Hello fellow coder tuzzers hope all is well with all of you!

this post is my experience being in direct contact with the bootcamps career coach. some of the points might be obvious and not earth shattering if so i apologize for being captain obvious in all cases i hope this helps any one here applying for his or her first job.


here are things I have come to learn whilst working closely with the new career coach assigned to me following my bootcamp. so hopefully this will help any one who is in this stage of their journey.

firstly i revamped my canva resume. it is highly recommended that you spend some time creating this as they have a lot of awesome and professional templates that make your resume stand out and provides you with the ability to show case your skills and its for free ( they do have premium stuff but i went with free and it works just fine). so i have my name under my photo and then i wrote javascript developer ( you can write frontend developer, backend, fullstack etc) under that i have my location, my contact information, my github link, my LinkedIn address ( avoid numbers in your username, so for example: john-smith-a12323 is not good, so you can actually fix this by going to settings in your profile and editing your URL to john-smith or smith-john)

after your contact info its time for your TECH STACk: in my case its javascript, react, redux, express... list them out
followed with profile: here the career coach recommended i re do it to highlight what i can do and what soft skills i have. my profile section is like this: A result driven Frontend JavaScript Developer with 1+ year of experience in web application development leveraging JavaScript technologies, proficient in React and Node.js with good knowledge in REST API's, and unit testing using Jest. Familiar with PostgresSQL, Sequelize ORM, and firebase databases. I'm fluent in English, capable of reading documentation, a team player, punctual, and responsible. Open to remote and onsite vacancies.


once profile is out of the way its time for your work expiernce. projects: instead of having it in a paragraph she suggested i turn it into points. so after a brief explanation of the project you state in points what your role was so for example:

Created the group page which contained the information for each team, the profile page for each individual user.

Coordinated with my team members the structure of the backend database used to hold the applications data.

Participated in designing the frontend interface for both the profile page and group page.

NOTE: the use of action verbs.

for more information i highly recommend this resource: https://www.qwikresume.com/resume-samples/developer/#experience

this website has a lot of useful information with regards to resumes for It specialists, cover letter examples and tips.

once you are done with the projects its time for education, i ended up listing my undergraduate degree which has nothing todo with IT.

that's the end of my canva resume.

with regards to the cover letter i had to rewrite it. the main aim is to show your interest in a particular vacancy and so you will be editing it with each vacancy because in this coverletter you will also write why you want to work in this particular company etc. you will find a lot of tips in this resource: https://www.qwikresume.com/cover-letters/web-developer/

I am supposed to increase my connections in linkedIn but i still didn't do that just yet. the idea is you should try to add the hr of companies you would like to work at this way you know if there are new openings etc some times they actually contact you so its a win win for you.

finally here are telegram channels that post IT related vacancies and are not limited to just javascript. they are both office based and remote. they also range from entry level all the way to senior. now some of these channels post vacancies in russian however you can easily translate and apply its not an issue.

- https://t.me/jobsearchIT
-https://t.me/forfrontend
-https://t.me/Getitrussia
-https://t.me/Remoteit
-https://t.me/remotejobss
-https://t.me/remotejun
-https://t.me/belit_jobs

P.S some of the vacancies in the united states might be under-paying or over-paying once again i can't have an opinion on this as i don't know how much is reasonable and how much is under payment so take this with a pinch of salt.

there is an option in telegram, if you are using the phone app where you can long press on the message and translate. if that that isn't available for you i highly recommend you use yandex translate as it does a much better job translating from russian to english compared to google.

once again if i stumble on more channels or if the career coach shares more resources with me i will definitely share it with you guys. hope this helpful. good luck to all of you.

finally sorry for any spelling or grammar mistakes

 

[Siamak]

after 2 months learning python i'd say it doesn’t make sense to start coding with C++ unless you know what you are doing and know exactly why you need it. to me python is the optimal choice. Although, I need a exploit development course in low level language like c++. Indeed i started to learn C++ to expand my knowledge in security field and pentest. but i noticed that knowing JavaScript and libraries would take advantage to use attacks such as XXS -CSRF. anyway i'm looking for a course on exploit development and ready to pay off my money for this course.

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Hello fellow coder tuzzers hope all is well with all of you!

this post is my experience being in direct contact with the bootcamps career coach. some of the points might be obvious and not earth shattering if so i apologize for being captain obvious in all cases i hope this helps any one here applying for his or her first job.


here are things I have come to learn whilst working closely with the new career coach assigned to me following my bootcamp. so hopefully this will help any one who is in this stage of their journey.

firstly i revamped my canva resume. it is highly recommended that you spend some time creating this as they have a lot of awesome and professional templates that make your resume stand out and provides you with the ability to show case your skills and its for free ( they do have premium stuff but i went with free and it works just fine). so i have my name under my photo and then i wrote javascript developer ( you can write frontend developer, backend, fullstack etc) under that i have my location, my contact information, my github link, my LinkedIn address ( avoid numbers in your username, so for example: john-smith-a12323 is not good, so you can actually fix this by going to settings in your profile and editing your URL to john-smith or smith-john)

after your contact info its time for your TECH STACk: in my case its javascript, react, redux, express... list them out
followed with profile: here the career coach recommended i re do it to highlight what i can do and what soft skills i have. my profile section is like this: A result driven Frontend JavaScript Developer with 1+ year of experience in web application development leveraging JavaScript technologies, proficient in React and Node.js with good knowledge in REST API's, and unit testing using Jest. Familiar with PostgresSQL, Sequelize ORM, and firebase databases. I'm fluent in English, capable of reading documentation, a team player, punctual, and responsible. Open to remote and onsite vacancies.


once profile is out of the way its time for your work expiernce. projects: instead of having it in a paragraph she suggested i turn it into points. so after a brief explanation of the project you state in points what your role was so for example:

Created the group page which contained the information for each team, the profile page for each individual user.

Coordinated with my team members the structure of the backend database used to hold the applications data.

Participated in designing the frontend interface for both the profile page and group page.

NOTE: the use of action verbs.

for more information i highly recommend this resource: https://www.qwikresume.com/resume-samples/developer/#experience

this website has a lot of useful information with regards to resumes for It specialists, cover letter examples and tips.

once you are done with the projects its time for education, i ended up listing my undergraduate degree which has nothing todo with IT.

that's the end of my canva resume.

with regards to the cover letter i had to rewrite it. the main aim is to show your interest in a particular vacancy and so you will be editing it with each vacancy because in this coverletter you will also write why you want to work in this particular company etc. you will find a lot of tips in this resource: https://www.qwikresume.com/cover-letters/web-developer/

I am supposed to increase my connections in linkedIn but i still didn't do that just yet. the idea is you should try to add the hr of companies you would like to work at this way you know if there are new openings etc some times they actually contact you so its a win win for you.

finally here are telegram channels that post IT related vacancies and are not limited to just javascript. they are both office based and remote. they also range from entry level all the way to senior. now some of these channels post vacancies in russian however you can easily translate and apply its not an issue.

- https://t.me/jobsearchIT
-https://t.me/forfrontend
-https://t.me/Getitrussia
-https://t.me/Remoteit
-https://t.me/remotejobss
-https://t.me/remotejun
-https://t.me/belit_jobs

P.S some of the vacancies in the united states might be under-paying or over-paying once again i can't have an opinion on this as i don't know how much is reasonable and how much is under payment so take this with a pinch of salt.

there is an option in telegram, if you are using the phone app where you can long press on the message and translate. if that that isn't available for you i highly recommend you use yandex translate as it does a much better job translating from russian to english compared to google.

once again if i stumble on more channels or if the career coach shares more resources with me i will definitely share it with you guys. hope this helpful. good luck to all of you.

finally sorry for any spelling or grammar mistakes

Great.
so far, i've taken some courses such as : Attack and Log analysis with SIEM, PfSense Firewall, MCSA, CCNA Routing and Switching 200-125, Security+ and LPIC-1. none of them are related to coding.
what would you recommend for a course on exploit development or any programming course with mainly focusing on pentest.

 

[Siamak]

goodness me why did i choose to "learn coding", its weighing my brain down so much im literally stuck like a frozen windows 98 pc.

 

[AFL_ITALIA]

goodness me why did i choose to "learn coding", its weighing my brain down so much im literally stuck like a frozen windows 98 pc.

It be like that sometimes. Wait until you start solving issues when you lie down to go to bed at night.

 

[Nejc]

goodness me why did i choose to "learn coding", its weighing my brain down so much im literally stuck like a frozen windows 98 pc.

Few months ago Ive been assigned to a different team within company to work on some framework for server driven layout, most frustrating and boring crap ever. Every day Im dreaming of changing my employer by lunch break already.

 

[Siamak]

Few months ago Ive been assigned to a different team within company to work on some framework for server driven layout, most frustrating and boring crap ever. Every day Im dreaming of changing my employer by lunch break already.

to me coding is hardest part of tech role. I would say it is not an easy journey to success in IT fields without solid coding knowledge. In all fields of information technology, coding knowledge is required. I suck at coding so much, but I'm forced to use it for Pentest projects. Knowing coding really well while being a programmer is a dream.

 

[Siamak]

https://www.tutorialspoint.com

I got to know about this site through a instagram post, you can find and learn everything about IT(Coding, Hacking, Network and etc). the courses are not free but the price of courses are super cheap though. i think every thing is ok about contents of courses except Hindi accent.

 

[.zero]

Let’s share vscode editor setup

Hello fellow coder tuzzers hope all is well with all of you!

this post is my experience being in direct contact with the bootcamps career coach. some of the points might be obvious and not earth shattering if so i apologize for being captain obvious in all cases i hope this helps any one here applying for his or her first job.


here are things I have come to learn whilst working closely with the new career coach assigned to me following my bootcamp. so hopefully this will help any one who is in this stage of their journey.

firstly i revamped my canva resume. it is highly recommended that you spend some time creating this as they have a lot of awesome and professional templates that make your resume stand out and provides you with the ability to show case your skills and its for free ( they do have premium stuff but i went with free and it works just fine). so i have my name under my photo and then i wrote javascript developer ( you can write frontend developer, backend, fullstack etc) under that i have my location, my contact information, my github link, my LinkedIn address ( avoid numbers in your username, so for example: john-smith-a12323 is not good, so you can actually fix this by going to settings in your profile and editing your URL to john-smith or smith-john)

after your contact info its time for your TECH STACk: in my case its javascript, react, redux, express... list them out
followed with profile: here the career coach recommended i re do it to highlight what i can do and what soft skills i have. my profile section is like this: A result driven Frontend JavaScript Developer with 1+ year of experience in web application development leveraging JavaScript technologies, proficient in React and Node.js with good knowledge in REST API's, and unit testing using Jest. Familiar with PostgresSQL, Sequelize ORM, and firebase databases. I'm fluent in English, capable of reading documentation, a team player, punctual, and responsible. Open to remote and onsite vacancies.


once profile is out of the way its time for your work expiernce. projects: instead of having it in a paragraph she suggested i turn it into points. so after a brief explanation of the project you state in points what your role was so for example:

Created the group page which contained the information for each team, the profile page for each individual user.

Coordinated with my team members the structure of the backend database used to hold the applications data.

Participated in designing the frontend interface for both the profile page and group page.

NOTE: the use of action verbs.

for more information i highly recommend this resource: https://www.qwikresume.com/resume-samples/developer/#experience

this website has a lot of useful information with regards to resumes for It specialists, cover letter examples and tips.

once you are done with the projects its time for education, i ended up listing my undergraduate degree which has nothing todo with IT.

that's the end of my canva resume.

with regards to the cover letter i had to rewrite it. the main aim is to show your interest in a particular vacancy and so you will be editing it with each vacancy because in this coverletter you will also write why you want to work in this particular company etc. you will find a lot of tips in this resource: https://www.qwikresume.com/cover-letters/web-developer/

I am supposed to increase my connections in linkedIn but i still didn't do that just yet. the idea is you should try to add the hr of companies you would like to work at this way you know if there are new openings etc some times they actually contact you so its a win win for you.

finally here are telegram channels that post IT related vacancies and are not limited to just javascript. they are both office based and remote. they also range from entry level all the way to senior. now some of these channels post vacancies in russian however you can easily translate and apply its not an issue.

- https://t.me/jobsearchIT
-https://t.me/forfrontend
-https://t.me/Getitrussia
-https://t.me/Remoteit
-https://t.me/remotejobss
-https://t.me/remotejun
-https://t.me/belit_jobs

P.S some of the vacancies in the united states might be under-paying or over-paying once again i can't have an opinion on this as i don't know how much is reasonable and how much is under payment so take this with a pinch of salt.

there is an option in telegram, if you are using the phone app where you can long press on the message and translate. if that that isn't available for you i highly recommend you use yandex translate as it does a much better job translating from russian to english compared to google.

once again if i stumble on more channels or if the career coach shares more resources with me i will definitely share it with you guys. hope this helpful. good luck to all of you.

finally sorry for any spelling or grammar mistakes

Howdy brother!

Long time. Hope all is well

 

[Siamak]

online certificate in programming

https://www.sololearn.com/home

 

[AFL_ITALIA]

Looks like I'll have to learn C# as part of my annual goals at work. Back to Udemy I go.

 

[Bianconero_Aus]

Join Codecademy

 

[Cerval]

Looks like I'll have to learn C# as part of my annual goals at work. Back to Udemy I go.

Its very similar to Java

 

[AFL_ITALIA]

Join Codecademy

Oh wow, I didn't even know they had that language. Might end up doing that too.

Its very similar to Java

I have limited experience with it already, and not a fan but it is what it is

 

[Bjerknes]

Anybody have a Scrum Product Owner certification? Probably need to get one soon.

 

[AFL_ITALIA]

Anybody have a Scrum Product Owner certification? Probably need to get one soon.

Maybe @JCK ?

 

[JCK]

Maybe @JCK ?

I don't. I have only in house training and it's enough for what we do. We have very few heads with certification.

 

[Bjerknes]

Maybe @JCK ?

I don't. I have only in house training and it's enough for what we do. We have very few heads with certification.

My place is the same way. We don’t require any actual scrum cert but follow the methodology. Probably good reason to get it anyway for marketability.

You do scrum too Jack?

 

[JCK]

My place is the same way. We don’t require any actual scrum cert but follow the methodology. Probably good reason to get it anyway for marketability.

You do scrum too Jack?

Yes. My team is eight software developer.

I think it's good to get the certificate if you want to change companies but I am happy where I am and within the company there are lots of development opportunities.