Hi all, Excellent discussion here.
I just wanted to post a link to this recent conference talk I saw by a junior developer at RailsConf USA 2015: https://youtu.be/SaNlfSeTWwI This talk covers a lot of useful tips for a junior developer about both, pre and post - getting a junior developer role. The only two things I would add in the "pre" part is 1) checking your practice/tutorials code in to GitHub or Bitbucket (and simultaneously developing a "small-commits" habit) 2) Possibly, blogging about your learning (more as mnemonic for yourself) About, the post part, experts can comment more as I am not yet there! :-) Cheers, Prasanna On Thursday, 25 June 2015 09:09:19 UTC+10, Duncan Bayne wrote: > > Last night over a few^W^Wseveral^Wmany drinks, a group of us got to > talking about the state of Ruby in Australia. > > Some of the points raised were: > > - there are a lot of companies looking for Rubyists > - most of those companies are looking for mid - senior developers > - it is very hard to break into the market, but once you're > established, work is much easier to find > - very few companies have coherent strategies for hiring, developing > and retaining juniors and grads > - the difficulty companies experience in hiring mid - senior Rubyists > may put them off Ruby as a technology > > My (vague, beer-attenuated) recollection is that some folks are already > working on this problem, and I'd love to help out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
