Category: Career
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Learn to code
Stay competitive in the job market and expand your skill set by learning new programming languages or technologies. Dive into resources like freeCodeCamp for web development (https://www.freecodecamp.org/), edX for a wide range of courses (https://www.edx.org/), and MIT OpenCourseWare for computer science (https://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm). Dedicate time to learn from tutorials, practice exercises, and apply new skills to…
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How to get a job as a software developer
Whether you are a recent computer science graduate, a person looking to change careers or someone eager to make a living writing code, the advice I would offer below can help you and anyone else if the goal is to get a job as a software developer. While the advice is nothing secret or even unique, it is still…
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How to become a software developer
A person looking to become a software developer would ideally have a bachelor’s degree in computer science or engineering. If that is you, then you can go ahead and skip to the section about programming languages. However, if you don’t have such a degree and getting one is not feasible then you need to learn about…
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Why Everyone is Moving to Austin [Infographic]
Bryan Menell shows an infographic with all the details about why everyone is moving to Austin. LINK Everything in that infographic is true. Click link above or image to see full infographic and be AMAZED!
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Current state of freelancers in LinkedIn
As of September of 2013 there are 780,627 profiles in the Unites States with the word freelance in either the title or job description. This is a number that we are monitoring closely as our findings show that freelancing is going up or at least the use of it for titles and job descriptions among…
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How do we connect projects with talent in our marketplace?
In our last blog post we mentioned the soft launch of the website for our new highly curated marketplace to help connect projects with talent and the reason we were doing it. Now we would like to share how it works, and please keep in mind that nothing is set on stone so we might…
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Why we are building a new marketplace for projects and talent
After many years as a software developer and entrepreneur I have come to the realization that hiring the right technical talent is one of the most if not the hardest thing for startups and companies of all sizes. Everyone can attract people to fill out resumes and come to interviews, finding people with the right…
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In search of technical talent
The talk from Business of Software 2010 by David Russo on why company culture matters, got me thinking about startup hiring principles in general. Below is one of my favorite quotes from his talk: Don’t hire great people, hire the right great people, they have to fit. It is not a secret that finding talent is a very…
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Austin has enough technical talent, no doubt about that
About a month ago an Austin’s newspaper ran an article with the following title “Austin companies head to California to recruit talent“, after I read it I was in disagreement and as a software developer from Austin, TX I felt a little offended by it to tell you the truth. The article states that the…
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Is Your Company Geek-Compatible – Vacations (part 4 of 5)
This is the fourth post of the “Is Your Company Geek-Compatible” series and it is about vacations. It’s summer and it’s the time of the year when most of us are thinking about taking that well deserved vacation… If you are like me, you’ll probably start by researching flights online, looking for hotels or vacation…
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