How to find a position at the Israeli hightech industryRan Bar-Zik

Who Am I?Web Developer with 10+ years of experience.Owner of internet-israel.comTwitter: @barzik

Decide on your destinationHigh tech Industry is dynamic, diverse industry. You can be either in the technical field (dev, QA, SysAdmin, Build Manager) or non technical field (Product manager, SEO, PMO)

Experience is the kingFinished your degree?With A++?MA?PHD?

Fun factIf you don’t have any experience, Nobody will ever consider your CV.

The worse position in the worldGetting your diploma and than get a job.

The QA path1.Things are not as they used to be.2.No one is doing manual QA anymore.3.You don’t want to do manual QA.4.QA == dev in most areas.

Get your own experience!1.School project !== experience.2.NGO === experience.3.Github === experience.

Choose your technology with care1.Find the most popular language\technology.2.Do not go on the cool stuff.

NGO Experience1.Mainly websites or simple web application.2.More design, less code.

Open Source Projects - Problem1.Hard to find.2.Hard to get involved.3.Technical difficulties.

Open Source Projects - Solution1.Start as QA (automatic testing) - for

example WordPress\Drupal.2.Start as NGO and than join to some open

source project that you used in the NGO project.

3.Start with i18n projects.

Do not start your own start-up1.It is not considered as experience.2.Unless you have strong technical partner.

Open source projectThey authorised your pull request? great!

1.FB about it.2.Tweet about it.3.PUT IT IN YOUR CV \ Linkedin

Publish your new skills1.Git2.Using bug tracking system3.Using agile management tools

How to do it1.Find the right project - GitHub2.Look at the GitHub log for known issues or

bugs.3.If there is none - write some automated test.4.Live example:

https://codex.wordpress.org/Contributing_to_WordPress

Example 1.https://wordpress.org/support/topic/works-fo

r-ie-thanks#post- Contacted the owner of the project.

2.i18n contribution - https://github.com/darkwhispering/Advanced-Browser-Check/commits?author=barzik

3.pull request.

NGO\Experience in the CV?1.Like any job. Including the time invested. 2.With reference to GitHub contribution.

When to do it?NOW.

Build your own working machine1.Get IDE - and PAY for it. It will worth the

money.2.If needed, install Linux in VB on top of your

machine.

It has a lot of benefits.