97 Stories To Learn About Career Development

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1. 2021: Reviewing and Kaizen-ing My Programming and Writing Life

Writing this personal review on how my year went is kind of emotional. I have always procrastinated writing or avoided it the previous years

2. Focus on These Skills If You're Worried About AI Taking Your Job

Three types of skills for software developers and designers worried about the mass adoption of AI

3. Meet the Writer: Mikhail Kirilin Did 12 Hours of Research for His Latest Piece

My name is Mikhail Kirilin. For the past 7 years, I've been involved in PR, editorial, and communications in one way or another. I've been studying hedge funds.

4. Pragmatic, Critical-Thinking Programmers Always Ask "Why"

Asking why helps you develop pragmatic, critical thinking, which is different from mere curiosity.

5. The New Future of Work Paradigm

The New Future of Work Paradigm

6. How to Win as an Associate Software Engineer

Being a new engineer can be challenging, but you can rock the role if you know how. Hint: not deleting the production database helps.

7. The 2022 State of Software Engineers Report

Hired released its 2022 State of Software Engineers, a report that analyzes key software engineering trends around demand, salaries, skills, and preferences.

8. My Experience of Moving up the Career Ladder in Software Engineering

Three of the most important learnings I had in my career so far going from Junior to Senior Software Engineer.

9. 8 Lessons From My 9 Years in Tech

8 lessons from my last 9 years in tech, lessons which I have learned the hard way and have been instrumental in my journey through the tech industry.

10. All Aboard The Hackership

The first instalment in a series set to document an editorial intern's journey throughout the hackership - Hackernoon's first internship program.

11. How to Manage and Motivate GEN Z

By knowing what motivates Gen Z employees, managers can better manage and retain this amazing young generation of talent.

12. Important Attributes of an Experienced Programmer: Work and Behavior

This article covers the important features of an experienced programmer — the necessary mindset and personal and professional qualities.

13. Blockchain Creates New Career Opportunities

Blockchain technology is fast disrupting the aviation industry and at the rate at which things are moving, it seems like aviation is all set to get revolutions

14. How Aspiration Killed My Motivation

Never get too close to the sun

15. On the Importance of Wide Range of Knowledge: Meet Paul Bailey, Systems Architect

Hacker Noon Contributor Paul Bailey, aerospace engineer turned systems architect, shares his thoughts on the importance of writing and wide range of knowledge.

16. Top 9 Business Habits of Successful Software Developers

A software developer shares the most important business lessons learned over the span of a four-year career in the industry.

17. How to Level Up Your Way to C-Suite

Have you ever thought that you have to develop pretty much the same skills if you want to become CMO, CCO, CPO, and basically Chief Anything Officer?

18. Tech Career Stories: From Frontend Developer to Principal Software Engineer

50+ books and resources that help me in my journey in tech.

19. The 5 Best Job Choices in AI By Salary and Job Prospects

There is a very high demand for Al professionals worldwide. With brighter and broader prospects, Al professionals enjoy sky-high salaries, job security & more.

20. You Should Participate in Hackathons; and Here's Why

Why should you attend hackathons? Five benefits of attending hackathons

21. Climbing the Ladder: Transition From Engineer To 'Leader'

How to transition from a software engineer to a manager and a leader of a team.

22. Why it's Tough to Be a Mentor

Mentorship is not about teaching someone algorithms, recommending the "right books", or giving them tasks to solve. It's about people

23. Hard Skills vs Soft Skills: What Is More Important To Employers?

Professional competencies are divided into soft (flexible) skills and hard (stable) skills. How can you cultivate hard & soft skills to achieve career success?

24. How to Get Into Tech and Become a Senior Engineer in 4 Years

As software continues to eat the world, more and more people ask me about "getting into tech," i.e. a successful Software Engineer easily making around $350,000 in total annual compensation. I get asked this a lot because I had very little coding experience when I decided to make a career change into software. Four years after making that decision, I entered Twitter as a Senior Software Engineer with a compensation package I couldn't even dream of making elsewhere. I often look back and refer to my career change as the best decision I made in my life.

25. How to Code for Decades and NOT be a Millionaire

Opportunities for making LOTS of money will present themselves over the years of a tech career.

26. How To Prepare For A Cybersecurity Manager Job Interview

I couldn't find any good resources on how to interview prep for a management role in cybersecurity, so I decided to make one.

27. "We Are Rich Because We Are Free." - How Society Creates Entrepreneurs

An economic perspective on how society allows a social contract to build entrepreneurs.

28. Create A Vision Statement to Define Your Career Goals and Reach Your Full Potential

Having a clear set of goals is important for developing your career. Without a clear goal and vision, it can be hard to fulfill your career potential.

29. 7 Best Tech Career Paths of The Future

From technology and innovation to economies, the world has been experiencing a plethora of changes in recent times. Business, as usual, is no more an alternative for any industry. The traditional careers may or may not have their way into the future. With these rapid transitions, there are a lot of new career options that may rule the future.

30. A Woman in Web3 and Proud Ukrainian: The Inspiring Story of Daria Volkova

My name is Daria Volkova. First, I’m a woman in web3, a proud Ukrainian and HackerNoon contributor. I'm sharing my story to inspire women!

31. 22 Top Tech Companies Hiring Remote Workers in 2021

These are the 22 Top Tech Companies filling remote job positions in 2021. The list includes Citrix, Oracle, and more.

32. How to Find a Great Mentor to Advance Faster in Your Career

If you are looking for opportunities to advance faster in your career, mentorship and executive sponsorship may be for you.

33. How Burnout Can Take Over Your Professional Life

Burnout is an intense word and can lead to professional and personal dissatisfaction, depression, and social isolation.

34. What Careers are Available in the Blockchain Industry?

Want to make your career in Blockchain Technology? Here is the best possible option you must adopt after Blockchain Certifications.

35. What Leaders Can do to Encourage Learning and Development

An organization's success depends not only on current capabilities but on the team's ability to grow and adapt. And this is facilitated by its leaders.

36. 6 Tips for Getting a Pay Raise in IT

Here are 6 tips for getting a pay raise in IT.

37. Why I Use YouTube as a LinkedIn Replacement

For those lucky few who have not heard of recruiter spam, it is the torrential flow of DMs called “InMail” that recruiters send to nearly anyone.

38. Debunking 6 Common Stereotypes About Working in IT

Stereotypes about IT still live on. However, every year they seem less and less witty to IT specialists. In this post we've taken apart the most popular ones.

39. Quickly Onboard Employees Using a 30-60-90 Day Plan

The hiring managers goal for onboarding new employees is to get them productive as soon as possible, using a 30-60-90 day plan.

40. 20 Ways to Stand Out in a Hiring Process (That Doesn’t Involve Your Resume)

20 ways to stand out in a hiring process that don’t involve your resume.

41. Is Faking It Till You Make It Useful Advice?

42. 6 Steps to Grow Into A Lead Engineer At FAANG

If you are a software engineer in one of the FAANG companies or similar you are probably one among the thousands of engineers  at the company. How do you go from starting fresh as a junior engineer to leading a team in say 5 years?

43. Career Success Story: Knowing Your Authentic Self

In this article, Eugene Kurylenko, Android Team Lead at Innovecs, tells his story from Middle developer to Team Lead, the challenges he faced on his career path

44. Comparing the Workplace Characteristics of IT Companies When Searching for an IT Job

Let’s try to systematize the difference between the companies that you can find on the job market.

45. Under The Hoodie - Ada Nduka Oyom, DevRel Ecosystem Community Manager with Google

Benjamindada.com goes Under The Hoodie to learn the story of Ada Nduka Oyom who is the DevRel Ecosystem Community Manager with Google.

46. The Road to Senior Engineer: Management Is Not Just for Managers

As programmers, there are numerous things we must manage each day in addition to code. The best programmers I know don’t just do a good job of writing code, the

47. How to Navigate Disasters in Tech (Part 1)

Here is a short collection of tech horror stories, their underlying causes, and ideas on how to build better more ethical tech products and services.

48. How to Deal with a Coworker Making More Money Than You

As many companies increase pay to attract new talent in an increasingly competitive Job market some workers are finding themselves left behind. What do they do?

49. What You Can Learn Next in Your Journey as a Developer

In your software development career, you’ll never run out of new things to learn.

50. Engineering Levels Ladder Explained

Ockam is sharing their engineer ladder in an effort to provide transparency and help junior engineers understand their potential career path.

51. How To Ask For Feedback As a New Software Developer

One of the best ways to grow as a software developer is by frequently asking for feedback from the people you work closely with.

52. From Talking Points to Tangible Outcomes: How We Built an Engineering Culture that Works

A strong “culture” is something every Engineering team touts, but often this amounts to flowery words in a mission statement. In my experience at mParticle, I’

53. The Roadmap and Resources to Becoming a Full Stack Developer

In this blog, I am going to be sharing with you the Roadmap and the Resources that you require to become a Full Stack Developer.

54. Three Growth Strategies for Individual Contributors

My first real job in programming started on July 5th, 2007, which means I have just over twelve years of experience as I write this. It’s a lot more than nothing, but probably not much more than something. Ten years seems to be about the right amount of time to get good at something, though some amount of natural talent or sheer drive can make it go faster. But growth is not as simple as waiting it out and talent does not supersede the need for experience.

55. 5 Things to Consider Before Interviewing at Fortinet

Working at Fortinet is a unique experience. Its one that can grow your career and pay you well, if you know what your getting into.

56. Things to consider when hunting for a job in software

And so am writing my first article ever that is dev-related. The main reason that I'm doing it is because I haven't contributed anything on the web yet and I don't want to remain silent while leeching from actual contributing colleagues.

57. "Using this method, I went from a teller to an executive," says Carlo Martinez CEO of Steppingblocks

How I became obsessed with helping students connect college degrees to careers sooner. So, I decided to build a platform and call it Steppingblocks.

58. How to Get a Recruiter to Work Harder for You

Here’s the secret to getting a recruiter to work harder for you.

59. Office Politics in Tech

“I’m going to do a boss move,” announced my manager, almost like she was going to step out for lunch. “Let’s discuss more in our meeting later.”

60. From Farm To Data - A Tech Career in Product Marketing (Podcast Transcript)

Amy Tom talks to Matt Groves, Senior Product Marketing Manager at Couchbase, and Rob Hedgpeth, Developer Advocate at MariaDB about their careers.

61. A Beginner's Guide to Public Speaking: My Experience With My First Speech

Having a public speech seems easy. In some ways, it really is. But the first time can be hard. Here's my thought after my first experience in public speaking.

62. Pressure Makes Better Programmers Faster

Over the course of my life, I’ve participated in more than 20 hackathons, so I might be a little biased on them, but on the other hand, I know a lot about how they can be useful.

63. How Hackathons Can Help You Build Much-Needed Developer Experience

Hackathons are a great way to get hands-on development experience. They offer developers the chance to learn from more experienced devs and can also be fun.

64. What To Expect From Your Front-End Developer Job Interview

Interviews are hard, especially technical interviews where you’re expected to think, solve, and analyze all while the interviewer stares at you. But what people don’t realize is that being interviewed is basically just another skill, and skills can be honed with the right information and practice.

65. How I Beat My Limited Beliefs, Quit My Job, and Became a Island-based Digital Nomad

How to become a digital nomad with no experience. Here is how I stopped working 9 to 5 and became a digital nomad.

66. Leaders Embody Values: How to Become a Better Manager

Your company leadership provide your north-star (Values and Objectives) for aiding decision making. Midlevel managers need to learn to balance the feedback from the teams with the direction of leadership.

67. How to Code for Decades and STILL NOT become a Millionaire

Opportunities for making LOTS of money will present themselves over the years of a tech career.

68. 6 Incredible Productivity Tools for Programmers

Productivity is key when it comes to getting work done with a smile. Burndowns are natural, here is how to minimize them and keep hustling.

69. 3 Steps to Help Advance Your Cybersecurity Career

I've spent more than 15 years building and leading cybersecurity programs at several Fortune 500 companies in the Financial Services industry. I'm also the Founder & Managing Principal of Fraction Consulting where I get to do fractional CTO & CISO work and advise private capital firms.

70. 6 Things To Know If You Want To Become a Cybersecurity Expert

This is a guide for people who wish to enter the field of cybersecurity. In this article, we cover what kind of education is needed to become an expert and more

71. Leaders Embody Values: Live By Your North Star

Have you ever heard of the north-star, it's consistently present in the sky of northern hemisphere and was the traditional way sailors aligned their course corrections at nighttime. Your company leadership provide your north-star (Values and Objectives) for aiding decision making. Mid level managers need to learn to balance the feedback from the teams with the direction of leadership.

72. What Exactly is a Tech Job?

Any job that deals within the tech ecosystem and requires some basic knowledge and understanding of technology is a tech job.

73. Ten Things I Wish I Knew at the Start of My IT Career

Following is a list of ten things that might sound so simple to many IT experts but weren’t so obvious at the start of their IT career.

74. 5 Practices to Shift from Scarcity to Abundance Mindset

Thinking with a scarcity mindset or abundance mindset isn’t limited to work, it extends to how you approach everything—friends, family, and other relationships.

75. 5 Most In-Demand Tech Skills to Learn and Empower Your Tech Career

If you want to empower your tech career or if you want to switch into a tech career, here are the most in-demand tech skills you can learn.

76. Launch Your Website Development Career in 2021

We cover the fundamental concepts to kickstart your career as a web developer in 2021, such as learning the basics, connecting to the backend, and more.

77. 8 Things That Helped Me Improve My Software Skills

8 painfully learnt ideas about software engineering that may challenge your assumptions and help you get better faster

78. Busting Myths About Tech Bootcamps: Challenge What You Think You Know

You've probably got a lot of assumptions about tech bootcamps, if they're worth it, how much they cost, who gets to do them...Ironhack is here to bust myths!

79. How To Develop Your Brand Strategy and Content Plan in 3 Hours

Product management provides helpful strategic tools not just for software, but for the product that is your blog, your writing career, and your personal brand.

80. AWS Career Paths: Top 5 Jobs You Can Get With an AWS Certification

AWS certification has been rated as one of the most valuable IT certifications globally. One of the key reasons behind this is the huge popularity of AWS systems, and its wide prevalence in the cloud industry.

81. How to Get into Tech Without a Tech Background

This article covers 3 key tips for entering the IT field and resources to leverage in order to pursue the path you wish to run towards.

82. 6 Proven Tips to Become a Technical Content Writer

How did it all start?

83. Data Science Skills Matrix: Why Critical Thinking is Most In-Demand

Whether you’re brand new to data science, have gotten your feet wet in this field or are an expert, you should know that working with data is all about generating knowledge.

84. Why I Hire Non-IT Graduates in The Cybersecurity Field

Essential elements you should have and why I hire non-IT graduates.

85. The Manager's Path by Camille Fournier [Book Review]

A book review of ''The Manager's Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change'' by Camille Fournier. Find out whether the book is right for you.

86. Have You Hacked Level 4 of Career Conversations Yet?

That's likely a question that you've never asked yourself, but as a manager, it's an important one. Career conversations are an important part of career development. We’re going to define 5 levels that will make it easier for you to have a better career conversation. Through self-reflection or 360 feedback, it should be relatively easy to know where you stand. You can then set the next highest level as a tangible goal to improve.

87. Revealing The Secrets of Top Software Engineers

One of the largest misconceptions about succeeding as a software engineer is that people think if they simply work hard, they will become successful and will receive the recognition they deserve. They couldn’t be further from the truth.

88. IT Market in 2022: Professions, Industries, Hiring

Let's discuss the key trends of IT market in 2022: industries, professions and hiring.

89. The Science of Productive Role Conflict

Use your sense of autonomy to feel in control of your situation and employ effective problem-solving strategies to resolve the conflict.

90. Building Your HR Career in IT: Tips to Master Tech Recruitment

One of the key requirements for working in IT, for HRs included, is being digitally literate and using technologies to boost productivity. Let's dive deeper.

91. How to Become a Software Architect: Keith Casey™️ on His Career Learnings at Twilio, Okta and Beyond

Software architects are really the linchpin for creating exceptional, world-changing software—and having the wrong person in that seat can be disastrous.

92. 14 Free Certifications by Google and Meta to Start Working Remotely

Find free certification programs for good-paying remote work careers. Ranging from digital marketing to IT, Project Management & UX Design from Google and Meta.

93. 11 Great Tips From A Guy Who Leveled Up From Intern To Dev

This is an article that expresses a few major learnings I would like to take away and mistakes I wouldn’t want to commit again from my journey

94. Deciding on a programming language to learn? Ask these 3 key questions

When asking yourself 'what programming language should I learn first?' First ask yourself: what are my motivations for wanting to learn to code?

95. 6 Pitfalls to Avoid When Transitioning To a Data Science Career

If you are considering the transition to a data science career these are common mistakes and traps you'll want to avoid.

96. You Don't Need To Be A Rockstar Programmer To Succeed

This post will show the steps I took to arrive at this point in my career and dispel some myths that I’ve seen newer engineers, including myself, fall prey to.

97. An Insider’s View of Working at a Walk-Up TechBar

My experience mentoring interns in the Help Desk works and at a walk-up TechBar who were part of the Genesys Works program.

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