How to Employ All of the New Junior Developers

Brittany Martin Confoo Vancouver

Tuesday, December 6th

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Hello Conference

I Hail From

United States of America

Nerdy Family of 3

Pittsburgh Cultural Trust

Ruby on Rails

Tessitura

Ticketing for 10 Organizations

Lead Ruby Developer

Bloc

Remote Mentorship

Navigate Careers

Mentor

ProductManager DeveloperBootcamp SoftwareDeveloper

My Story

New Developers + Allies

The Situation“

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6000

12000

18000

24000

2014 2015 2016

New Developers

Growth in Learning to Code

Self Taught Bootcamp

Course Report Coding Survey 2014, 2015, 2016

Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2016

Job Postings

Junior Developer Roles Available

Indeed Job Trend Report 2012 - 2016

Jobseeker Interest

Junior Developer Roles Available

Indeed Job Trend Report 2012 - 2016

Data Scientist 12%

BE Web Dev13%

FE Web Dev26%

FS Web Dev49%

Roles Desired

A vast majority are interested in working as web developers, of those who want to work at a company.

freeCodeCamp 2015 Survey5294 Responses

How Do We Get Everyone

Hired?

Let’s GetCREATIVE

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Introducing: The Does It Fit Meter

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1.SUPPORT THE ENGINEERING TEAM

2.WRITE CODE

3.ACCESS TO RESOURCES

4.NEED TO BE TECHNICAL

The Rules

Support Engineer

Alternate Roles

QA Analyst Developer Evangelist Technical PM

Support Engineer“

Perfect For

Customer Service Experience Quick Thinker

Patient Resourceful

Available Job Count

5,126 American Jobs 3,708 Canadian Jobs

Katelyn HertelSupport Engineer Fastly

Meet

1.SUPPORT THE ENGINEERING TEAM

2.WRITE CODE

3.ACCESS TO RESOURCES

4.NEED TO BE TECHNICAL

Does It Fit?

Junior Quality Assurance Analyst

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Perfect For

Testing Aptitude Curiosity

Ability to Negotiate Clever

Available Job Count

727 American Jobs 152 Canadian Jobs

Emiko DodsonQA Engineer Orca Health

Meet

1.SUPPORT THE ENGINEERING TEAM

2.WRITE CODE

3.ACCESS TO RESOURCES

4.NEED TO BE TECHNICAL

Does It Fit?

Developer Evangelist

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Perfect For

Social Affinity for Marketing

Excellent Communicator Scrappy

Available Job Count

270 American Jobs 55 Canadian Jobs

Felipe MillanDeveloper Evangelist Sendgrid

Meet

1.SUPPORT THE ENGINEERING TEAM

2.WRITE CODE

3.ACCESS TO RESOURCES

4.NEED TO BE TECHNICAL

Does It Fit?

Technical Product Manager

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Perfect For

Natural Leader Data Powered

Great at Estimating Love Users

Available Job Count

106,246 American Jobs 8,279 Canadian Jobs

MeTechnical Product Manager NIRD LLC, 2 years ago

Meet

1.SUPPORT THE ENGINEERING TEAM

2.WRITE CODE

3.ACCESS TO RESOURCES

4.NEED TO BE TECHNICAL

Does It Fit?

Past Experience Counts!

Let’s get everyone a job that fits!

Thank You.

@BrittJMartin

@wonderwoman13

Tomorrow @ 3pm Deployments So Easy, Devs Will Ask For It by Name

and Thank You, Confoo.