Advancing your tech career in 2019

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Advance your tech career in 2019 1

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hello! I AM Richa Khandelwal Engineering Manager, Coursera You can ﬁnd me at: @linkedin/in/richak 2

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3 Outline Building the hard skills Soft skills that matter Finding resources and making a plan Lifelong Learning ……………. Create goals and achieve success Career Growth

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Building the hard skills 4

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1. Try a new technology stack 5

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“ Based on 2018 Stack Overﬂow developer survey, median number of stacks developers build in is 2. Based on 2019 Stack Overﬂow developer survey, median number of stacks developers build in is 3 “ 6

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Most common combinations 7 Frontend Backend Fullstack SRE DevOps Designer Frontend Data Analysis Data Science Machine Learning

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2. Try a new programming language 8

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Top Programming Languages 9 Github developer survey

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3. Try a new technology domain 10

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Emerging technology trends 11 Gartner Hype Cycle 2018

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4. Increase your OSS presence 12

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Github OSS Platform Stats 2018 13 Github developer survey 2018

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When trying something new ◎ Resources ○ Books/Blogs/Podcasts ○ Online courses/Bootcamp ◎ Community ○ Meetups ○ Stack Overﬂow ○ Mentors and friends ◎ Real life application ○ Hobby projects ○ Open source contributions 14

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Build up your soft skills 15

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5. Soft Skills in 2019 16

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Persuasion Creativity Collaboration 17 UI/UX Negotiation Agile Public Speaking Emotional Intelligence Design Research Written Communica tion

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6. Mentorship 18

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Approaching mentorship Team ◎ Experts in the area that you wish to master this year. ◎ Your manager IS one of your mentors. Relationship ◎ Build a lasting professional relationship with each mentor. ◎ Know their strengths, background, interest and story. ◎ Offer in return - fulfillment, insights, reverse mentoring. Ground rules ◎ Set clear expectations. ◎ Always end meetings on time or early. ◎ Be flexible and mindful. ◎ Optimize for their convenience. 19

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Create your learning plan 20

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7. Learning Resources 21

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2019 is in the information age ◎ Books ◎ Podcasts ◎ Blog posts ◎ Online courses 22 Plan in your schedule Curate your list Plan in your schedule Track Progress Celebrate Success

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8. Align career growth with organization goals 23

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Career growth and organization goals ◎ Review organization goals ◎ Review ﬁnancial plan and business metrics ◎ Did your org meet its goals based on your contributions? ◎ Will your career grow if you org is successful? 24

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13,526,124 In total site visits 5% New user registration rate 185,244 users Users registered world-wide 25 * Growth pirate metrics

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9. Community and Influence 26

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Online Presence and Identity Twitter Twitter Lists Follow Influencers Create following Quora Follow topics Ask questions Answer questions Reddit Follow topics Ask ANY question Engage Meetups Find meetups in relevant topics, learn from experiences, create network Conferences Immersive experience into specific topic areas. Attend workshops and tutorials. Forums Stack Overflow, company forums, meetup forums, github. Answer questions, present opinions 27

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Social Influence ◎ Plan to write a blog post. ◎ Plan to speak at a conference. ◎ Plan to coach your technology or business partners. 28

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10. Career Growth Vision and Plan 29

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Create a plan to “Advance your tech career in 2019” ◎ Create a plan ◎ That’s bit.ly/2GY2wUg ◎ Identify themes. ◎ Align with organization goals ◎ Review with your mentors/manager. ◎ Track progress ◎ Celebrate success! 30

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“ We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction. “ 31 Bill Gates

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Resources for 2019 32

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2019 Reading List ◎ Never Split the Diﬀerence ◎ Culture Code ◎ Site Reliability Engineering ◎ Designing Data Intensive Applications ◎ The Mythical Man-month ◎ Emotional Intelligence ◎ A Philosophy of Software Design ◎ Mindsets 33

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2019 Courses ◎ Machine Learning ◎ Deep Learning ◎ Public Speaking ◎ Negotiation ◎ Managing company of the future ◎ OWASP Top 10 ◎ Agile ◎ Creative Writing 34

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2019 Podcasts ◎ Software Engineering Daily ◎ Developer on Fire ◎ Masters of Scale ◎ Techmeme ride home ◎ The Knowledge Project ◎ Manager Tools ◎ Software Engineering Radio ◎ Simple Leadership 35

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References ◎ Stack Overﬂow 2019 Developer Survey ◎ Github Octoverse ◎ Experience Economy ◎ GitLab Developer Survey 36

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thanks! ANY QUESTIONS? You can ﬁnd me at: @linkedin/in/richak [email protected] 37