40-hour "work week":
- Code: mornings w/ coffee (from when I wake up 7ish to 8:30/9) includes JavaScript exercises and working on github issues.
- Outreach & Networking: Monday and Thursday afternoons (2pm - 4pm)
- Job & company research and tracking: Tuesdays (1pm - 4pm)
- Interview Prep: Wednesdays (1 - 4pm)
- Housekeeping: Fridays (1 - 4) includes updating your resume/cover-letters, updating your Turing portfolio, updating LinkedIn, updating Personal Website
- Other: Fridays and Tuesdays (10 - 12) includes blogging, social networking
- Check-ins: Weekends(check in with my mentor once a weekend)
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I want to have recieved an offer by March 30 at the very latest.
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I hope to recieve an offer much sooner if I can hustle.
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Monthly: get an offer,
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Weekly: Get out 10 applications w/ warm or cold outreach,
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Daily: follow my calendar plus more
Keep in mind:
- What is feasible in your schedule? following my schedule or adapting to it
- What actions will give you the most impact in your search? Job tracking and outreach (as I'm the least comfortable or practiced with these)
- I plan to hone my JavaScript skills with code challenges and start to learn C++ or GO!
- I want to 'level up' in Testing and TDD. exorcisms and writing more robust tests for my past projects.
- Continue building my JavaScript gaming-suite passion project.
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I still need to find some people from the companies I'm tracking
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I would love to talk with someone about why they like/dislike working for a company.
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I would follow up with an email thanking them for their time and asking for another possible meeting (if I liked them).
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I want to attend a CannaTech meetup to talk to people about opportunities and tech stack in that specific industry niche.
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I plan to attend another Girl Develop It code and coffee as I enjoyed the last time I attended.
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I want to research meetups that are geared towards tech and gaming/media/entertainment.
- I didn't love this tool.
- like to track these things on paper the best. But I'd like to try another app.
- Attending meetups and social events will help my social anxiety a bit.
- Using online resources for code challenges and maybe incorporate a timer for a slight stress element.
- Personal Website
- other online presence
- Social Networking (this one is hard for me)
- Blogging
- Open Source Contributions
- My mentor - (weekends) - coding, job prep
- My husband - (any time) - accountability, support
- My classmates - (hopefully often) - accountability, support
- Social Anxiety
- Fear
In this section, you'll find action steps that you should aim to complete during your first 30 days post-grad, but these are not steps that you need to have completed for your portfolio review. Instead, you should begin thinking about how you will achieve these steps, and your post-grad job search support coach will ask about progress on these during that first 30 days.
Scheduling Post-Grad Action Step: At the end of each week during your first 30 days, assess what worked with the schedule and what didn't so that you can make adjustments as needed and manage your time even more effectively for the following week. This will also help you keep a record of what you've done in your job search.
Outreach Post-Grad Action Step: During the first 30 days, you should aim to reach out to at least 10 individuals. Even if you don't have a list of all 10 for the draft of this plan for portfolio review, be prepared to meet this target during your first 30 days of the job search.
Job/Company Research & Tracking Post-Grad Action Step: Reach out to and apply to at least 10 companies/jobs.
Housekeeping Post-Grad Action Step #1: During this timeframe, you should establish a “master” resume that you’ll customize per employer. You should already have a working version that you submitted in Module 3.
Housekeeping Post-Grad Action Step #2: Establish a “master” cover letter with your key talking points that you'll customize per employer.
Use this checklist here to make sure you have everything needed in your plan for your portfolio review. Your instructors will also use this checklist during the portfolio review.
- Establish shareable calendar and show to your instructor(s)
- List your cut-off date for having a full-time position
- List monthly, weekly, and daily goals
- Create "daily_practice" repo and describe to instructor(s) what you plan to practice
- List 3 people you will reach out to. Describe to instructor(s) why you'll reach out, when you'll email them by, what you hope to talk about, and what follow-up will look like
- List 3 meetups you'll attend and describe to instructor(s) why you'll attend them
- List the job search tracking system you're using and describe to instructor(s) why you're using it/how it will help you
- List 2-3 areas you'd like to continue to improve on for interviewing and outline concrete action steps on how you will improve those skills to describe to instructor(s)
- Turing portfolio is updated with 3 projects
- Summary of how you've updated your LinkedIn profile
- List additional area you'll focus on in your job search and describe why to instructor(s)
- List 1-2 people you'll check in with during job search
- List 1-2 "barriers" and describe how you will overcome them to your instructor(s)