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📅 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…

📅 April 1, 2020 Mastering Your Career ⏱ 3 minutes read

Your Personal Branding Website – Advertise Yourself On The Web

All of us should have a personal branding website of some sort. This goal can be achieved through a blog site, a web site that displays our portfolio, or a page on LinkedIn. Whichever…

📅 March 30, 2020 Mastering Your Career ⏱ 3 minutes read

Work Examples, Portfolios, And Showing Off Your Deliverables

A frustrating part of my education was a need to show my work. I always wanted to get to the answer, and showing work slowed me down. However, work examples are an important part…

📅 March 27, 2020 Mastering Your Career ⏱ 2 minutes read

Expired Certifications And Stale Resume Items

Our continued drive to become a better developer will eventually lead to certifications. Therefore, it will lead to those certifications expiring. While some authorities do not expire their certs, there is a useful lifespan…

📅 March 26, 2020 Integrate Testing Into Your Development Flow ⏱ 3 minutes read

Why Integration Testing Should Not Be Overlooked

Welcome to the next episode in our new series “Integrating testing into your development flow”. Today we are going to be looking at “Why Integration Testing Should Not Be Overlooked”. In our last presentation,…

📅 March 25, 2020 Mastering Your Career ⏱ 3 minutes read

The Focused Resume – Curating Your Experience

We have looked at a focused form of a resume with the mini-resume. However, we tend to have a lot of excess in our resume as our career goes on. This excess may be…