The ins-and-outs of building a career in tech, gaining experience from a mentor, and getting your feet wet with coaching.
Mentors & Mentees
Starting a new job with more confidence and stronger support
Nelson Remetz has successfully transitioned careers from architecture to UX design. But with the skill building done, there were more hurdles in the way – interviewing and overcoming the first few months in an entirely new job.
Kristen Leake
Career Growth
Breaking into cybersecurity - a beginner study plan to hack your way in the industry
Starting a career in cybersecurity without any experience can feel almost impossible. You can easily become overwheldmed by the hundreds of subtopics, how they relate to each other, and where to begin your learning journey. In this article I am presenting a study plan example that I use as a starting point with my mentees.
Andrei Agape
Neeran Gul – Meet the Mentor
10+ year industry veteran with experience in working with major cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP) and open source contributions to Terraform and Ansible.
Neeran Gul
5 Steps Between You and Your First Data-Science Job
Regardless of your background, there are 5 major stages between you and your dream job as a non Data Scientist to a Data Scientist. This note list these stages and provides some tips and tricks for better results in each stage.
Saeed Mirshekari
(2022) How to Do a Midlife Career Change When You Feel Stuck
Midlife career change typically involves the desire to update your current career experience or simply retrain whenever you’re stuck in your current role.
What I've Learned About Facebook ads after spending more than $5M
Facebook ads are a great way to reach out to potential customers, but they can also be very costly if you don't know what you're doing. I've spent more than five million dollars on Facebook ads, most of it out of my own pocket. And I've learned a lot along the way. Here are 7 tips on how to run Facebook ads without breaking the bank.
Yaron Been
Accelerating Startup Growth Through Advisors And Effective Mentorship
For many early-stage startups, their ultimate fate is decided by getting the right connections, advice and access to opportunities at the right time.
Podcast
Demystifying Product Management with Colleen Graneto
If I ask you right now, what does a product manager do all day? Would you be able to give me a concrete answer? The search term around what a product manager does all day actually gets up to 10,000 hits every month in Google. So we’re taking the time today to talk to a veteran and leader of the industry.
Colleen Graneto
The world of leadership requires change
People want a sense of purpose, and they don't want bosses; they want coaches. How HR-driven leaders compare to CFO-driven leaders and how the Millennial workforce is different from their predecessors.
Philo Hermans
Laura Ma – Meet the Mentor
I have 7+ years of experience in startups fundraising, business strategy, product and pricing strategy, OKR and KPI planning, budgeting, financial projection, product management.
Laura Ma
How To Pass The Terraform Associate Exam
I’ve just passed the Hashicorp Terraform Associate exam and thought I would share some thoughts on it and what I think you need to focus your studies on in order to pass it too.
Nathan Webster
Tips for How to Succeed in Coding Interviews
I share strategies on how to ace your coding interviews. I used these strategies to get top FAANG offers.
YC !
Definitive guide on answering "What Are Your Strengths and Weaknesses?"
Most of us at some point in our career will have been asked by an interviewer about your professional strengths and weaknesses. Lots of candidates are not sure how to answer this question. Here are some hints and tips that can help guide you and help you give interviewer an insightful answer that highlights yourself reflection and why they should hire you.
Richard Bunkham FCIPD
How we’re putting data in the marketing-driver seat
Marketing has always been seen as a creative art. When in fact, marketing sits at the intersection of art and science. It’s time to put data in the marketing-driver seat. Find out how we're doing it at Consumer Intelligence.
Verena Fiebelmann
SPAC Structures
Despite their spectacular rise over the past few years, SPACs are still relatively misunderstood by market participants. In this piece we explore how they work, and how investors could take advantage from a 'Spactacular' opportunity.
Abbas Alighanbari
Invent and Simplify: Amazon Interview Questions Explained
Amazon is one of the world’s leading e-commerce companies. Therefore, getting an interview invite with the company is exciting news for anyone.
Five Insights For A Next Level Career
In my 34 year career in IT & Sales I’ve learned a thing or two about this. In fact, five probably doesn’t cut it, but it’s a nice number to start with.
Yvonne Loorij
Stop Relying on Job Boards - Do This Instead to 10x Your Chances of Landing an ML Job
Simple strategies for increasing your chances of landing your first data science role.
Reza Fazeli
How to Be a Good Mentor Your Mentee Listens to
Mentors are loved by mentees and employers alike. They are great leaders, show empathy for people in sticky situations, and know their skills in and out. But how can you be a good mentor?
How to Make Reverse Mentoring Work
Keeping up with change is a challenge for any company. To combat obsolete ways of doing business, industry leaders are switching things up and looking to their youngest employees to upskill their teams.
Personal Branding with Anand Safi
In this episode, we’re talking about the topic of personal branding, certainly a topic that’s not uncontroversial. Anand Safi joins us to talk about the topic from his point of view.
Anand Safi
Why and How to use Personalized Images in your Outreach
Outreach and Lead Generation is getting harder and harder as people become numb to outreach methods. Using personalised content, particularly images breaks through that barrier to improve engagement.
Justin Ashurst
How I Broke into UX Design
This time last year, I was working as an English tutor at a university in Tokyo, now I am about to start a full-time role as a UX/UI Designer.
Kathryn Yokoyama 🇯🇵
Did you catch the start-up bug yet
In my article I try and cover the narrative of working in a startup , a detailed insight into what goes into a successful venture building
Ronit Ogra Strategy Coach
How to successfully answer job interview questions
Use The STAR Method To Respond To Difficult Interview Questions
Why you need a tech ethics mentor
Building technology that works well goes beyond writing code. How are you encoding ethical practices into your work?
Katrina Ingram, BBA, MACT, CIPP/C
Where do you see yourself in 5 years time? Give The Best Answer
How to structure your answer to standard interview questions
How to Tap into The Hidden Job Market
For many, the pandemic was an extremely difficult period, and arguably it was the crash of the job market that hit hardest. But the future is looking up.
How to Find Your First Web Developer Job
Intuitive programming
During my work experience, I quite often heard the phrases of experienced and novice programmers - “I feel that this should work”, “I have a feeling that this method will not work”, “Let's make an intuitive clear interface" and so on. All this is a manifestation of intuition in the development and programming process.
Andrew Nester