Career: Career Management for Software Engineers

Learn how to take the future of your career into your own hands

About This Course

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.

Course Curriculum

3h 57m 8 sections

Welcome

01:34 Free preview

What will you learn in this course?

01:57 Free preview

Who is this course for and prerequisites?

02:37 Free preview

Teaching style

01:13 Free preview

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

Meet Your Instructor

Nick Cosentino

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

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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