Ahead In Tech
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Be informed and inspired by career journeys and insights from people across the Tech spectrum, including traditionally-educated Engineers, Bootcamp grads, Managers, Recruiters, Founders and more.
It helps you get ahead in your career journey as a Software Engineer, Developer, UI/UX, Data, QA, Lead, Manager, Exec, and Founder.
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Email: hello@aheadintech.com
It helps you get ahead in your career journey as a Software Engineer, Developer, UI/UX, Data, QA, Lead, Manager, Exec, and Founder.
Watch on YouTube: https://aheadintech.com/youtube
https://aheadintech.com | Get Ahead in Tech!
Podcasts: https://aheadintech.com/podcasts
Discord: https://discord.link/aheadintech
Twitter: https://twitter.com/AheadInTech
Email: hello@aheadintech.com
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00:00 Start
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- 00:00 Start
- 01:25 Building Engineering Culture
- 04:15 Role as Director and Manager at EVRYTHNG
- 07:30 Visual Identity at EVRYTHNG
- 12:13 Modern Tech/Engineering Recruitment
- 19:59 Current state of hiring market
- 23:02 Long term investment, nurturing people
- 30:41 COVID Effect, team culture and cohesion
- 37:24 Future of Remote Working
- 39:17 The T-Shaped Individual in Engineering
- 43:54 Broad depth vs deep specialisation
- 45:23 Roles at EVRYTHNG
- 46:15 Joke of the Show!
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- 00:00 Start
- 01:35 Why retrain into coding?
- 05:29 The Software Engineering Bootcamp experience
- 09:08 Getting the first role
- 12:15 Hitting lead dev for the first time
- 16:44 Continued growth at a startup
- 20:54 Moving to the MoJ at Lead level
- 24:25 Dealing with Imposter Syndrome
- 26:33 Leading others with more experience than you
- 29:18 Importance of Mentors
- 33:22 Technical Leaders vs People Leaders
- 36:49 Future growth
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- 00:00 Start
- 01:25 Motivation to learn Coding via Bootcamp
- 04:35 Fear of going to Bootcamp
- 06:27 His Bootcamp experience
- 09:19 Gaining confidence after the course
- 11:09 Landing the first job
- 14:13 Growth by challenging yourself with career moves
- 18:05 Getting the latest role at Voxnest
- 22:12 Technical growth
- 24:45 Overcoming Imposter Syndrome
- 26:36 Joke of the Show!
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- 00:00 Start
- 01:53 Work that Credit Benchmark is doing
- 09:16 The JavaScript courses at City University London
- 20:41 What you've learned teaching Devs and Engineers
- 24:56 Company labels, startups, scaleups
- 30:17 What you need to know before working at a startup
- 37:41 Meaninglessness of Job Titles
- 43:44 Imposter Syndrome
- 51:26 Joke of the Show!
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- 00:00 Start
- 01:18 Why start this podcast
- 05:50 What's surprised or impressed you from career journeys
- 09:07 How do you cope with stress
- 10:53 Most useful lesson from people's career stories
- 12:46 Best piece of advice for a Tech career
- 15:28 Will you go back to coding
- 19:45 What have you learned promoting your podcast
- 23:30 Are you fully yourself when interviewing people
- 26:42 What's the future of the show
- 31:39 What do you want to be most proud of
- 34:52 Which character from Friends would you be
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- 00:00 Start
- 02:19 Internships in Tech
- 08:12 Being prepared for your first Software Engineering role
- 10:20 Minor Program in Shenzhen, China
- 14:54 Internships leading to first Developer role
- 19:25 Great company cultures to look out for
- 22:45 Tech interests
- 24:00 Career paths
- 27:28 Remote culture and challenges
- 31:10 Maintaining Junior growth while remote
- 33:30 Post-pandemic work-from-home WFH expectations
- 36:11 Working alongside Bootcamp graduates
- 38:15 Importance of diversity
- 39:37 Current state of Women in Tech
- 44:04 The "Cut The Code" Podcast
- 46:49 Contacting Nikita
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- 00:00 Start
- 01:50 Motivation for coding Bootcamp
- 03:36 Experience at Bootcamp
- 06:26 First Developer role
- 07:22 Toasty - the 2nd startup
- 10:10 Exiting the startup
- 11:54 Motivation to exit
- 13:02 Taking the harder paths in life
- 14:56 Motivation to Build in Public
- 16:49 Intro to Building in Public
- 18:35 First experiences with Building in Public
- 21:19 Guides and resources
- 25:24 Benefits of Building in Public
- 27:38 Key strategies
- 30:10 Storytelling
- 31:07 Retaining engagement
- 33:17 Common misconceptions
- 36:19 The future of Building in Public
- 39:14 Building in Public 30day challenge
- 41:46 Cohort-based learning
- 43:02 Journey of self-discovery and uniqueness
- 46:36 Personal life in Public
- 47:32 Joke of the Show!
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- 00:00 Start
- 00:51 Childhood and early career
- 03:15 Creating a Data job
- 06:40 Selling the Data role to the Business
- 15:21 Boundaries between the different Data roles
- 19:00 Biggest problem for Data Scientists
- 20:34 Using Data with Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence
- 21:54 Most common Business Data issues
- 24:12 Signs your Business doesn't have Data under control
- 27:14 Limited experience with Coding/Software Engineering
- 27:54 Job titles
- 29:49 Burnout leading to a break and a new job
- 35:15 Noticing burnout too late
- 37:38 Maintaining a sustainable pace
- 41:53 Gaining perspective on work/life balance
- 42:50 Current role as Head of Data Management at Encompass
- 45:14 Approach to optimization and automation
- 47:10 The future of Data
- 49:00 Joke of the Show!
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- 00:00 Start
- 01:52 When being CEO harms your mental wellbeing
- 05:39 Root causes of internal pressure
- 08:16 Different leadership for different stages of a company
- 09:53 Improving mental wellbeing
- 12:54 Coaches vs Therapists
- 14:13 Personal experience being coached
- 16:42 Jerry Colonna's CEO bootcamp
- 20:54 Motivation to go into Executive Coaching
- 22:42 More personal business relationships
- 23:53 Benefits of coaching for startup leaders
- 31:29 Many different types of coaching
- 33:36 Sports coaching as the genesis of executive coaching
- 35:44 Beginning a coach-client relationship
- 39:25 Benefits leaders seek from coaching
- 44:25 Making time for yourself
- 46:41 The Rubber Ducking technique
- 49:15 Ways to find mindfullness
- 51:03 Thoughts of becoming a Monk
- 55:19 Joke of the Show!
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- 00:00 Start
- 03:22 Motivation for going to Bootcamp
- 05:35 Moving from Web Design in Australia to UX in London
- 08:13 Left brain logical thoughts vs right brain creativity
- 10:16 First experiences at Bootcamp
- 12:06 Things she enjoyed
- 13:25 When you realize Bootcamp isn't for you
- 17:42 Mindset
- 19:39 Still dabbling in Coding
- 20:24 Joy of crafting and improving
- 22:02 After Bootcamp
- 25:54 Carrying on the UX journey
- 32:12 Caron's new business helping Creatives
- 36:13 Making money as a Creative
- 39:24 Consulting services
- 44:28 Validating ideas quickly and cheaply
- 45:58 Helping people take back control of their lives
- 48:14 Joke of the Show!
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- 00:00 Start
- 01:01 What are Life Sciences and career opportunities
- 01:58 Why move from pure Tech to Life Science Recruitment
- 03:36 Booming Junior Developer/Engineer hiring in Life Sciences
- 04:36 Required qualifications
- 05:32 Competitiveness in the industry
- 06:19 AI and Data Science
- 08:34 Behind the scenes process as a Recruiter
- 13:52 Shady practices in Recruitment
- 17:54 Competitive and cynical nature of Recruitment
- 19:04 Discussing salaries
- 20:43 Good relationships between candidates and Recruiters
- 21:46 LinkedIn reply rates
- 22:28 Getting out of your comfort zone, risk vs reward
- 23:45 Getting the best salary
- 24:47 Finding the RIGHT Recruiter to work with
- 25:42 Motivation and enjoyment from the Recruiter role
- 26:25 Joke of the Show!
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- 00:00 Start
- 01:08 Side hustles
- 02:56 The $100 Startup
- 04:14 Replacing Developers with nocode/locode technologies
- 05:03 Validating Business ideas
- 08:49 Everything about eOpinion.org
- 16:09 The Tech behind eOpinion.org
- 19:29 Joys of Zapier
- 20:57 Goals, metrics, measuring progression
- 22:59 SEO and marketing
- 25:56 Joke of the Show!
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- 00:00 Start
- 01:06 Reasons for going to Software Bootcamp
- 03:57 Experience at Bootcamp
- 05:48 Starting the journey to Senior Software Engineer
- 11:45 Getting your first job vs getting promotions
- 13:19 Obstacles in the way of promotion
- 19:48 Being glue
- 20:34 Self-advocating
- 23:27 Importance and process of getting and giving feedback
- 30:20 Being rejected for promotion
- 32:22 Promotion vs leaving for another role
- 34:58 Where does your Imposter Syndrome come from
- 36:20 Progress beyond Senior Software Engineer
- 37:51 Joke of the Show!
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