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Understanding Corporate Hierarchy (and Perfecting Your Resume), With Tiffany Jachja
🎙 About the episode
Meet Tiffany Jachja 🇺🇸! Tiffany is a data scientist, career coach, engineering manager, and Twitch streamer! By day, she works at Vox Media. In her free time, she helps fellow developers by sharing career advice and her computer and data science knowledge. In this episode, Tiffany helps you understand a company's organizational structure so that you can come to your job interview prepared!
Alex and Tiffany also talk about resumes: what is their function, and is there such a thing as an ideal resume? You'll also learn the main differences between studying computer science and taking a bootcamp, how to approach the job-hunting tips you find online, how to know if you're ready to apply for your first developer job, and why inspiration matters. Tiffany also shares her favorite online coder communities and job boards!
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🧰 Resources Mentioned
- Video: From Student to Senior: Career Development 101
- Danny Thompson's Commit Your Code community
- RemoteJobHunters on Reddit
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