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There are always more decision-makers involved in hiring, and here's what to do about them
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How to Sell Yourself and Believe in the Product - Career Transition to Software Engineering
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- 1 How Shaundai chose to study entrepreneurship
- 2 "I had never been in a position where I loved the thing that I was doing"
- 3 Selling software made Shaundai fascinated with software engineering
- 4 How Shaundai eventually taught herself to code on Codecademy
- 5 How Shaundai organized her studying... and went overtime
- 6 "I could make money AND be happy with that I'm doing"
- 7 "In this case, I'm selling myself!"
- 8 There are always more decision-makers involved in hiring, and here's what to do about them
- 9 Shaundai's strategy to win over her company's engineering team
- 10 You're always in a more powerful position when people think that something was their idea
- 11 Never start conversations with what YOU need
- 12 Shaundai started submitting projects to the engineering team's personal development form... and getting challenges
- 13 Put yourself in the shoes of the customer
- 14 Managers can't go through every single line of code of everybody who's applied. Here's how to tackle that!
- 15 Your coding skills are a commodity! Provide value instead.
- 16 What's a commodity?
- 17 If you're a career changer, you're a superset of a developer!
- 18 How Shaundai eventually got to switch teams
- 19 Shaundai started interviewing with Netflix less than a year into her new career, and it all started with a podcast
- 20 "In order to stand out, I need to show that I'm a human"
- 21 How to be human
- 22 How to get outside of the goal while still keeping the goal in sight
- 23 Sometimes we pick the more tangible thing, but ultimately you don't know what can help you in the long run
- 24 How to cultivate self-belief?
