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Developing your brand as a software developer

Soft Skills for Week 2

  • What are your personal values, and how does your personal brand reflect that?
  • 3 parts of the soft skills answer:
    • Intro - a super short summary of what you will be talking about - give me the punch line right away
    • Story - only tell details that show what you did!
    • Take away “What I learned from this”, “Going forward I will always”, “The lesson I learned from this situation”...

Prerequisites

Motivation

  • Your personal brand is your way to distinguish yourself from others and make yourself memorable.
  • Having a distinct and relevant personal brand can help employers identify you as a good fit for their open roles, or can help you build credibility with colleagues and managers as you further your career.
  • It is worth the investment to think outside the box and develop a brand that will help employers get to know you.

Objectives

  • Understand importance of a personal brand when embarking on a new career
  • Set up your own site or blog to start sharing your learning

Specific Things To Learn

  • Using Twitter—following, tweeting, blocking, and muting
  • Tips for blogging
  • Tips for being social through GitHub

Materials

Lesson

Spend a few minutes reading "How to win friends and stand out from the crowd". This page will help you to make new friends and grow your Network.

  • Choose your lane
    • Pick something you have learned or love and go deep in explanations
    • Join a community
  • Make Friends
    • Get involved on Twitter and GitHub
  • Share your experience
    • Blog
    • Tweet
    • Speak
  1. Control your dialogue
  • Use Twitter—following, tweeting, blocking.
    • We recommend using Twitter's reply controls to prevent trolls from replying to your tweets.
    • Use Block Party to filter out unwanted @mentions from Twitter, and continue to use Twitter as normal.

Common Mistakes / Misconceptions

  • Most new developers feel they need to be an expert at something before they can share on a topic. The irony is, there are not lots of free beginner content out there for new developer geared towards new developers and the same new developers are in the best position to teach each other today. No matter how new you are, there is someone who knows less than you and you are in the best position to teach them.

Guided Practice

  • You can add a profile README on your Github when you create a repository with a name that matches your Github username. Take a look at some examples and follow the tutorials to set up a profile README.

Supplemental Resources

  • templates.netlify.com - List a variety of website templates.
  • codenewbie - A community for new coders that provides various resources and help, including a slack group.

Check for Understanding

  • What are the benefits of having a distinct Personal Brand?
  • How do you build a Personal Brand?
  • Mention some communities you would like to join.