Summer of Code 09 and How to have a kick ass ICT career
- 1. Welcome to Summer of Code 09 John Clegg - ProjectX + Summer of Code Victoria University 15th July 2009
- 2. Today Summer of Code 09 Kick-Ass Careers in ICT
- 3. What is Summer of Code ?
- 4. Summer of Code non-profit internship programme connecting smart students with Wellington ICT companies
- 5. 70 students in over 40 companies
- 6. 2 out of 3 students get hired
- 7. What’s in it for you ? Get training - Bootcamps, Seminars and Workshops Get experience - 400+ hours of ICT experience Get paid - $18 p/h Create networks with Industry - UP, NZCS Have Fun!
- 8. Boot camps • Resumes workshop • Communication skills
- 9. Boot camps • Languages - .net / php / rails • Web / HTML / SQL • Unit Testing / Code Management
- 10. It starts now! Sign up on Summer of Code ‘09 Bootcamps start next week www.summerofcode.co.nz
- 11. How to have kick-ass ICT career
- 12. What do companies look for in a graduate ?
- 13. Tips to help you along your way
- 14. Where to go for help?
- 15. Who am I ? John Clegg (J Money - Pimp of SoC) CEO - ProjectX Summer of Code
- 16. Where I’ve been ? VUW Undergraduate C+ Average Career didn’t follow a plan Spent time working in USA, OZ, UK, India, South Africa and NZ
- 17. Getting a good job is HARD!
- 18. Talked to a lot of people about hiring
- 19. I asked one important question
- 20. What they look for in a graduate?
- 21. The answers surprised me
- 22. We hire on personality
- 23. We hire on team fit
- 24. Tech skills are a given
- 27. We need a new plan
- 28. We need think differently
- 29. “Anybody with even routine skills could get a job as a programmer. That isn't true anymore.”
- 30. “The future no longer belongs to people who can reason with computer-like logic, speed, and precision.”
- 31. “... engineers will have to master different aptitudes, relying more on creativity than competence”
- 32. What skills are important going forward?
- 33. Not just function - DESIGN
- 34. Not just argument - STORY
- 35. Not just argument - STORY
- 36. Not just argument - STORY
- 37. Not just argument - STORY
- 38. Not just focus - SYMPHONY
- 39. Not just focus - EMPATHY
- 40. Not just seriousness - PLAY
- 41. Not just accumulation - MEANING
- 42. Your work fits into a big picture DESIGN - STORY - SYMPHONY EMPATHY - PLAY - MEANING
- 43. How do you make this fit together ?
- 44. 5 things to think about in your career
- 45. #1 #1 Who are you?
- 46. We see a lot of resumes
- 47. What are you all about ?
- 48. What does the world say about you ?
- 49. What makes you different ?
- 50. Its not about grades We hire people not grades !
- 51. We don’t want robots
- 52. Self awareness
- 53. What are your strengths ?
- 54. What are you good at?
- 55. Look at Tiger Woods
- 56. What is the best part of Tiger Woods game?
- 57. His Drive
- 58. What does Tiger Woods practice the most ?
- 59. His Drive
- 60. Lesson #1 Work on your strengths Work around your weaknesses
- 61. #2 “What are your Interests?”
- 62. Tell us more about yourself
- 63. There are plenty of things that suck about computers
- 64. What do you like about computers?
- 65. What do you like about programming?
- 66. Lesson #2 Tell us why you want to work in ICT
- 67. #3 Curiosity
- 68. We have lots of problems
- 69. We need people to hunt them down
- 70. Figure out what’s wrong
- 71. Build Solutions
- 73. #4 Learning
- 74. “By nature men are pretty much alike; it is learning and practice that set them apart.” Confucius
- 75. "Learning is like rowing upstream: not to advance is to drop back." -- Chinese proverb
- 76. How do you learn ?
- 77. By Osmosis?
- 78. Visual ?
- 79. Aural ?
- 80. Kinetic ?
- 81. Or by Osmosis? Mindmaps ?
- 82. Lesson #4 Figure out how you learn Check out NLP
- 83. #4 Getting things done
- 84. When do you work best?
- 85. You learn differently at different times of the day
- 86. In the end its about outputs
- 87. Its about hitting targets
- 88. Formula for success: Under promise Over deliver - Tom Peters
- 89. Lesson #5 Focus on getting things done
- 90. Summary 1. Show us your strengths 2. Tell us why you want to work in ICT 3. Be more curious 4. Figure out how you learn 5. Focus on getting things done
- 91. Here are five tips for your career journey
- 92. #1 Its not about “you”
- 93. Its about what you can do for your company
- 94. Tip #1 Kick ass for your company and its clients Build your own ‘brand’
- 95. #2 Its not about “qualifications”
- 96. We don’t want robots
- 97. Learning is a one step in a journey...
- 98. What you do with it, is more important!
- 99. “The difference between the novice and the master is simply that the novice has not learnt, yet, how to do things in such a way that he can afford to make small mistakes” Signal vs Noise Blog
- 100. You learn by doing lots of small projects
- 101. Tip #2 Show us what you can do Build a portfolio
- 102. #3 Learn about the industry
- 103. Read blogs that interest you • Silicon Welly • NZ Herald • Stuff Tech Pages
- 104. Find out what’s happening in the industry
- 105. Technology changes fast Keep up
- 106. Tip #3 Keep with the news Look at delicious.com
- 107. #4 Its about People
- 108. Connect with other geeks
- 109. Google doesn’t know all the answers
- 110. Tip #4 Connect with User groups • Unlimited Potential • Super Happy Dev House • Geek Girls • Specialist User groups
- 111. #5 Communication
- 112. You have to talk to people
- 113. Best tech doesn’t all ways win
- 114. People with better communication skills succeed
- 115. Ask Questions
- 116. Tip #5 Talk to people
- 117. Summary 1. Kick ass for your boss 2. Build your portfolio of interesting projects 3. Keep up with industry news 4. Join and participate in user groups 5. Just talk to people
- 118. Where to go for help?
- 119. Visit them at 14 Kelburn Parade Wellington http://www.victoria.ac.nz/st_services/careers/
- 120. Talk to a Student Liaison
- 121. Go to industry network events
- 122. Books
- 123. More books
- 124. Questions
- 125. Resume seminar next week
- 126. Links News / Bookmarking - Delicious.com Networking organisations - Unlimited Potential - http://www.up.org.nz - Super Happy Dev House - http://superhappydevhouse.org.nz/ Summer of Code - http://www.summerofcode.co.nz