Introduction The Junior Jobs Podcast is a show focused on surfacing the voices of recently hired junior developers to give you relatable and actionable job search advice relevant to TODAY’s market. In this episode we interview Jacob Pixler, a liberal arts community college grad who worked as an audio engineer before…

Introduction The Junior Jobs Podcast is a show focused on surfacing the voices of recently hired junior developers to give you relatable and actionable job search advice relevant to TODAY’s market. In this episode we interview Bryce Simonds, a graduate in Psychology who recently career transitioned from Parks and Rec to…

Introduction The Junior Jobs Podcast is a show focused on surfacing the voices of recently hired junior developers to give you relatable and actionable job search advice relevant to TODAY’s market. In this episode we interview Jeffrey Cruz, a college graduate in Socialogy who decided to pivot from Hospital Administration to…

Introduction The Junior Jobs Podcast is a show focused on surfacing the voices of recently hired junior developers to give you relatable and actionable job search advice relevant to TODAY’s market. In this episode we interview Vlad Stoyanov, a bootcamp graduate in the UK with a background in sales, who got…

Introduction The Junior Jobs Podcast is a show focused on surfacing the voices of recently hired junior developers to give you relatable and actionable job search advice relevant to TODAY’s market 💪 In this episode we interview David Kea, a homeless unemployed veteran about how he got his first job as…

On February 28th 2023 Hired.com released it’s annual report on the State of Software Engineering, reflecting data captured from 68,500 job candidates and 494,000 interview requests. …

Why do companies ask for several years of experience for entry-level roles? Because they can! They do this despite knowing years-of-experience does not equal skill-level and that they are more than likely filtering out great candidates 😞 So why do they do it? Because it’s a survival technique! With bootcamps…

The good news is that if you’ve made it to the interview stage the company already wants to hire you!‍ Empathize with the hiring manager for a bit. Imagine -‍ Being understaffed (that’s why they’re hiring), so They’re overwhelmed with all the extra work, and In-between their hectic schedule they…

Being a new hire is an intimidating place to be because THIS TRAIN IS MOVING! So many teams! So many people! So many projects! All moving at breakneck speeds in their OWN direction against their OWN goals using their OWN jargon. And you’re expected to jump right in! And all…