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📅 April 22, 2020 Mastering Your Career ⏱ 3 minutes read

One Offs, Side Projects, and Veering From Standards

Rules are meant to be broken, and sometimes there is a reason for veering from standards. We often do this to build a one-off or maybe a proof-of-concept. These are situations where we have…

📅 April 20, 2020 Mastering Your Career ⏱ 3 minutes read

When To Search For a New Job

Sooner or later, most of us have a desire to search for a new job. This situation can arise from negative things like personal conflicts and lack of challenge or can be looking for…

📅 April 17, 2020 Mastering Your Career ⏱ 3 minutes read

Marketing or Narcissism – How Much Is Too Much

When we build a personal brand, there is a certain amount of “bragging” we need to do. This form of marketing can be seen as pure narcissism at times. While that is not a…

📅 April 15, 2020 Mastering Your Career ⏱ 3 minutes read

Addressing Old and Rusty Skills In An Interview

Technology moves fast and is not likely to slow down. Therefore, cutting-edge knowledge we have today can quickly lose its value. Nevertheless, just as a car that loses a lot, but not all, of…

📅 April 13, 2020 Software Architecture From Scratch ⏱ 3 minutes read

Research and Preparation For An Interview

We spend a lot of time doing the work that makes us a better developer. Nevertheless, there is still some work we need to do as part of selling those skills. Research and preparation…

📅 April 10, 2020 Mastering Your Career ⏱ 3 minutes read

Non-Professional Work On Your Resume – It Is Valid Experience

We often overlook the non-professional work we do in our life. It is easy to throw work experience on our resume when we got paid. However, what about volunteer work or maybe even side-effects…

📅 April 8, 2020 Mastering Your Career ⏱ 2 minutes read

Listing Education On Your Resume and Personal Branding

We have looked at our professional experience and addressing it on a resume or personal branding site. In this episode, we look at the other major area of our background and how to handle…

📅 April 7, 2020 Become a Better Developer ⏱ 2 minutes read

Waterfall and Agile – A comparison of two methodologies

The two most popular SDLC methodologies of the last few decades are arguably Waterfall and Agile. Therefore, we have plenty of examples of projects run via one or the other. Likewise, it is valuable…

📅 April 6, 2020 Mastering Your Career ⏱ 3 minutes read

Conferences As Professional Experience – A Full Resume

There countless things we do during our careers that are easy to forget yet make us better. In this episode, we look at counting conferences as professional experience. We can easily overlook these valuable…

📅 April 3, 2020 Mastering Your Career ⏱ 3 minutes read

Your Personal Portfolio – Work and References On Your Branding Site

We talked about a personal brand website. In this episode, we focus on the personal portfolio. This content is work examples, deliverables, and possibly even applications. The bonus for this form of delivery is…