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Career Changers & Impostor Syndrome: Leveraging Your Unique Strengths

Career Changers & Impostor Syndrome: Leveraging Your Unique Strengths

It's very common for Impostor Syndrome to impact career changers, especially in their first dev role. Instead of going into the job with a deficit mindset, let’s talk about the unique skills you bring to the table that you’ve honed throughout your previous experiences.

'Tine Zekis (she/her/hers)

January 08, 2019
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  1. Imposter Syndrome u A thought pattern in which a person

    diminishes their own accomplishments, often attributing their successes to luck* u This is coupled with a fear of being discovered to be a ”fraud”, or not as capable as they appear to be* u Imposter Syndrome affects people at all stages of their careers * Paraphrased from Wikipedia
  2. Career Changers & Imposter Syndrome It’s tough to be new

    There are times when you feel you don’t belong Some of your colleagues have been coding since high school!
  3. Deficit Mindset u I’ve never done this u I don’t

    know much about that u One day, they’ll all realize that I don’t know what I’m doing
  4. Ditch the Deficit Mindset u Let’s stop thinking about what

    you don’t have (yet) u What are your unique talents? u What are your transferable skills?
  5. Example: Former Math Teacher u Public speaking u Justice work

    u Explaining technical concepts u “I’m a developer who speaks human.”
  6. What Are the Skills You Bring? CUSTOMER SERVICE COMMUNICATION SKILLS

    PATTERN RECOGNITION CREATIVE PROBLEM-SOLVING PERSUASION
  7. Being New Is an Asset, Too! u Fresh eyes u

    Asking new questions u Looking at things with a different perspective