Clouds in Your Career?
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This document discusses navigating career growth in the evolving technology ecosystem. It provides three goals: 1) Solve a problem through project-based learning of cloud platforms, 2) Pursue career growth through researching job roles, maintaining LinkedIn profiles, and doing annual interviews, and 3) Achieve "job insurance" through developing differentiated technical and business skills and building community. It also offers advice on technical tuning to understand cloud architecture and security and learning business domains, as well as resources for cloud learning.
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Clouds in Your Career?
- 1. Clouds in Your Career Journey?: Navigating the Evolving Ecosystem of Technology AMY H. LEWIS | @COMMSNINJA
- 3. What Is Your Goal?
- 4. Goal 1: Solve a Problem Project-based learning works! (And your company pays for you to learn on the job!) Pick a platform and learn the terms Use the project to compare platforms Learn the billing and get familiar with each vendor's terminology. Finally, sign up for the free tiers, and do! Ariel Sanchez @arielsanchezmor
- 5. I am starting out learning what AWS is and how it is architected. That will lead in VMware in AWS and then UC on VMware in AWS. Also gonna sprinkle in some API research. Scott Glenn @HuskerCollabGuy
- 6. Goal 2: Career Growth Research job roles and titles on LinkedIn Clean up your LinkedIn Go on an interview at least once a year Which skills are institutional knowledge vs valuable to the market The barrier to entry is lower than learning virtualization, storage, and networking. You can get started with a Chromebook. Keith Townsend @CTOAdvisor
- 8. Goal 3: Job Insurance > Job Security What makes you stand out? Technically Businesswise Invest in your future CONSISTENTLY Build community BEFORE you need it Ask what skills and experience they have today that are special and differentiated. Then map that skillset into one relevant to cloud. Make learning that the goal. Sholom Brody @sholom
- 10. Technical Tune Up Remove friction How does traditional architecture map to cloud architecture? Understand security Practice IMO the cloud is a concept, not a specific thing, and a lot of the engineer’s skills may be transferable to that paradigm. Sean Massey @seanpmassey
- 11. Learn a New Language: Business Are you fluent in health care? Finance? Every business is in the IT business now Can you communicate what you know? Toastmasters PowerPoint Whiteboard
- 12. Resources A Cloud Guru: Intro and Cert Classes Coursera: Various LinkedIn vExperts Podcasts CloudCast Datanauts Geek Whisperers Real Job Talk (Episode 2!)
- 13. #ThankYou
Editor's Notes
- Why am I up here? I’m nosey and carry a microphone in my travel bag. I joined tech after the industry ate my industry’s lunch. So I know about pivoting. Plus Happy Clouds. Twitter Poll
- Are you stopping yourself? There are barriers along the way, but keepers can be beaten.
- Clean up your LinkedIn—use the dark side in your favor. Identifiable photo, map skills to roles you want. Don’t match with what you see, go get those skills.
- Stand out technically or via the business
- There is no shadow IT, there’s just IT now. There’s no bagel now, there’s just bread.
- Learning has become infinitely less expensive (A Cloud Guru, open source software, free-tiers on public cloud, local meetups, online courses, etc.) but new technology is coming more frequently, so choosing where to focus is more difficult. Companies no longer pay for training, so they expect you to come to new jobs with experience.
- Not just Python. Nick Weaver story.
- WWMK do? Do I get certified? In what? What’s my next step, do I have to be a manager? Join the conversation about the modern career path, the impact of cloud, and how to get what you want out of your job.