For a while now, I have been getting a lot of gratitude over giving others advice on their journeys to becoming developers. I enjoy helping others, whether it be giving advice on networking, resumes, portfolios or just the learning process in general.
I have decided I want to do something to reach out to people and help them. There are endless amounts of posts on here regarding “Struggling to get an Interview”, and usually people are falling in to the same traps.
As well as this, people are getting lost, or they don’t know how to start getting into the industry. In my mind, it would be great if there was one definitive resource to answer all these questions.
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To give you a bit of background on myself, I am a 26 year old freelance web developer and designer. I made a move from a full-time Operations Manager position to start working for myself last year. I also run a business breeding/selling and showing horses which is another story! Since this I have landed myself 4 clients, purely through social networking. Two of them are one off jobs, but the other two are ongoing work.
My role previously was mainly handling client relationships on large construction contracts, employing contractual and full time workers on numerous projects. I have a firm understanding of what it requires to succeed in interviews and what employers want.
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Essentially, my idea is to help others help themselves. I want to provide people with schedules, and one on one advice on how to succeed. Advice on what to learn, when to learn it, how to learn it. Code reviews, tutorials, guidance on your resumes/portfolios and a community. As well as a huge resource of tutorials, lessons, interview prep and motivation. I have already enjoyed some success with a Github project doing a similar thing, but I want to grow this outside of a Github repo.
I have the help of a software developer with over 20 years of experience working for large companies (Google/Oracle/EA Games) and also a contract iOS developer who will be helping me depending on what your chosen route is.
The long term goal is to have a community of people who would be willing to take on freelance / contract work.
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My question to you is, what would you want to know? Could this be something that you, or anyone you knew could get behind? What sort of things would you want to learn if you were starting out again.
Many thanks in advance to anyone who even takes the time to read through!