Learn how to take the future of your career into your own hands
Are you feeling like your career isn't moving as fast as you would hope, even though you are excellent on the technical level? Many developers face this issue because being good at software engineering is one thing, but being able to move forward in your career includes an entire suite of things you should be doing outside coding. In this course, Microsoft Principal Software Engineering Manager Nick Cosentino and Yelp Engineering Manager Ryan Murphy will teach you everything they know to take your career path into your own hands using the knowledge they gained managing hundreds of engineers over the years. Not only will you get all your career management questions answered, but you will also get an action plan at the end of the course to start taking actionable steps immediately.
Curriculum
Welcome (01:34)
What will you learn in this course? (01:57)
Who is this course for and prerequisites? (02:37)
Teaching style (01:13)
What is Career Management? (04:14)
What Does Career Management Look Like? (06:42)
Introduction to Internal vs External Career Growth (04:46)
Internal vs. External Career Paths (10:44)
Recognising the Signs (09:09)
Exercise: Reflect on Your Current Path (06:30)
Introduction to Managing Your Career Externally (06:01)
Preparing for External Opportunities (13:32)
Chasing External Roles (11:40)
Evaluating External Offers (10:57)
Exercise: Draft Your External Career Checklist (05:41)
Introduction to Managing Your Career Internally (07:21)
Building Your Case for Promotion (15:52)
Navigating Internal Career Opportunities (14:20)
Handling Internal Career Challenges (05:44)
Exercise: Identify Your Next Internal Step (11:08)
Why You Need To Be Consistent? (05:32)
Keeping Your CV and LinkedIn Updated (11:24)
Growing and Maintaining Your Network (07:50)
Investing in Continuous Learning (07:09)
Exercise: Create a Career Maintenance Plan (07:09)
Why Create An Action Plan? (06:24)
Create Your Personal Career Strategy (11:54)
Exercise: Write Down Your Top Three Career Goals (26:41)
Conclusion (00:52)
Course Info
Level:
Career
Duration:
3h 57m
Rating (New):
Lifetime access
Add to CartAbout the Author
Nick Cosentino
Nick Cosentino is a Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft and a .NET content creator. He manages the teams responsible for deploying the hundreds of services supporting the Microsoft365 suite of products to serve users across the planet. Nick brings his unique experiences to the Big Tech world having worked at a startup that scaled from a handful of employees to hundreds before it went public.
Nick runs a software engineering and dotnet-focused blog as well as a YouTube channel called Dev Leader. While he enjoys solving complex problems with software solutions, Nick is passionate about reducing barriers for people to get started on their software engineering journey.
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Ryan Murphy
Ryan Murphy is an experienced Engineering Manager at Yelp, content creator, writer and speaker. He currently leads the teams responsible for all the infrastructure behind reliable and safe purchasing. His career has typically seen him either working on trading platforms at large financial institutions or implementing scalable infrastructure behind advertising.
Ryan’s goal is to level-up the next generation of software engineering leadership, where there is currently little on offer for training and learning those new skills.
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