Second, congratulations on making a career pivot! No matter your age, it can feel bewildering at first. But your passion should override any nerves or doubts about yourself you should have. I always remind myself, everyone is learning and the table is big enough for everyone to have a seat at it (being the tech industry).
My advice is to make some material to put on your website or github. Sharing how you build things helps potential employers see how you work and what you know. Also, it's a good opportunity to share with other developers online for peer review.
Blogging also helps tackle both of the aforementioned points, but also helps establish some web presence for yourself.
IMO, networking is very, very important. It can get foots in doors as culture fit is really important at a lot of places. So making friends on Tech Twitter or another social platform can possibly help.
Another point is, apply to a lot of places. You'll most likely get hired as a junior dev, but don't take offense to that or let that dissuade your accepting a role. I only say a junior since you don't have any work experience as a developer. Working with a team in an agile/scrum environment can be an education in and of itself.
Hiring juniors is great tho as it gives the company an opportunity to mold the developer they are really needing.
I hope this helps some and reccomend jumping on Twitter. Lots of programmer knowledge sharing going on over there, as well as here on dev.to.
Thanks Brett. That all sounds bang on. I've got an idea for a platform I want to build, I have no shortage of work in my current broacast role, so I'm going to build this platform and see how it goes, first. Why not?
Thanks again for the advice
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Jaime, first off congratulations on graduating!
Second, congratulations on making a career pivot! No matter your age, it can feel bewildering at first. But your passion should override any nerves or doubts about yourself you should have. I always remind myself, everyone is learning and the table is big enough for everyone to have a seat at it (being the tech industry).
My advice is to make some material to put on your website or github. Sharing how you build things helps potential employers see how you work and what you know. Also, it's a good opportunity to share with other developers online for peer review.
Blogging also helps tackle both of the aforementioned points, but also helps establish some web presence for yourself.
IMO, networking is very, very important. It can get foots in doors as culture fit is really important at a lot of places. So making friends on Tech Twitter or another social platform can possibly help.
Another point is, apply to a lot of places. You'll most likely get hired as a junior dev, but don't take offense to that or let that dissuade your accepting a role. I only say a junior since you don't have any work experience as a developer. Working with a team in an agile/scrum environment can be an education in and of itself.
Hiring juniors is great tho as it gives the company an opportunity to mold the developer they are really needing.
I hope this helps some and reccomend jumping on Twitter. Lots of programmer knowledge sharing going on over there, as well as here on dev.to.
Best of luck to you and welcome to the circus!
Thanks Brett. That all sounds bang on. I've got an idea for a platform I want to build, I have no shortage of work in my current broacast role, so I'm going to build this platform and see how it goes, first. Why not?
Thanks again for the advice