How to hack your job search

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Jonny LiPeople

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HELLO THERE!

“I help pebble attract and retain talent”

● Software developer● Digital tinkerer and future

tech enthusiast● Coffee Snob

Peter O'ShaughnessyTech Lead

HELLO THERE!

“I help solve problems with technology”

A technical innovation consultancy that delivers exceptional software product

development to blue chip clients through human-centred design, rapid prototyping, Agile development and measurement of

everything!

PEBBLE {CODE}

We solve interesting problems & build stuff people love

HOW TO HACK YOUR JOB SEARCH

Q: What are businesses looking for in a new hire?

A: Businesses have a checklist*

*Look for the patterns

Q: Beyond the technical skills, what are the main things we look out for?

A: You can hit the road running without too much

hand holding*

*short answer

- Can uncover the real user and stakeholder needs. - i.e solving the right problem.

- Able to work as part of a cross functional team. - using agile methodology for managing the development of a product

- Managing client expectations - to be able to communicate with our clients without making you us look bad or stupid.

*long answer

Q: What is your role as a Software Developer?

P: We like to think of Software Developers as

problem solvers

Proble Solvers who: Build stuff with other people, and build stuff people need

If you were the business, why would you recruit you?

Where can you get this kind of experiences?

Final year project Personal project

HackathonsInternshipsOn the job

Job Search TimelineBuild a portfolio and a body of experience

Targeted Resume - Make the recruiters life easy

Interview - What is the recruiter actually looking for?

If you want to build an awesome portfolio, you’ll need to make stuff people

need

HOW TO DECONSTRUCT, AND SOLVE PROBLEMS

- Who is the user?- What frustrates them? - What supports them? - What is their environment like? - What are their other tools? - What are their drivers?

WHAT PEOPLE NEED, NOT WHAT THEY WANT.

DRAW THE PROBLEM- Visualise what you see as the key

concerns for the problem you are trying to solve.

- Work alone at first to describe problem through your eyes

- Work in a group to create a single vision

EMPATHY MAPPINGBy mapping out the problem hopefully you should have created a list of people who were involved or affected by the problem. Before a solution can be pieced together, you need to know your target audience.

- Summarise 6 key actions for each persona:

• Hearing • Thinking • Seeing • Feeling• Saying • Doing

PUT IT TO THE TESTPick out one specific issue to think up

(and sketch down) a solution to.

PICK A CARD!- On this card is a constraint. A constraint card might say “it ships today”, “keep it simple” or “take it outside”.

- Redraw the solution according to this restriction.

If you fully understand the problem you are trying to solve, the solution should

come easily

- Now you can build it

Cool! You have awesome an awesome portfolio.

Lets look at your resume

Ditch the CV template

Q: What is the role of a CV

A: To land you an interview

*short answer

A: To allow the hiring person to know you are the right candidate in the shortest

time possible

*long answer

Build a resume like a startup landing page

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