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Lessons Learned Recruiting and Managing Junior Developers for 10 Years
🎙 About the episode
Jason has been recruiting and supporting Junior Developers for more than a decade! He joins us to share his inspiring story breaking into tech after sustaining a head injury, and what he’s learned about how to find success as a Junior without a degree along the way.
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⏰ Timestamps
- Introduction (0:00)
- How a head injury at 16 influenced Jason’s career path (01:27)
- Interns vs. juniors (05:07)
- Job titles matter, but not for the reasons you might think (08:04)
- Are there more juniors than junior jobs? (10:35)
- Why recruiters sometimes get it wrong and what that means for you, the candidate (11:38)
- The job description is not a list of hard requirements (15:44)
- How to improve your self-awareness (19:05)
- Coding vs. programming and why it matters (22:04)
- Justin’s favourite question to ask during interviews: What games do you play? (23:40)
- Are you born or made a programmer? (24:56)
- Tech is vast and has many career paths to offer (27:26)
🧰 Resources mentioned
- Tell Alex from Scrimba @bookercodes what you thought of the episode
- Read Jason’s fantastic advice on dev.to
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