Lessons Learned from Changing Careers
summary
Career move from ballet and music publicity into front‑end engineering via Iron Yard bootcamp leads to work on the CrowdStrike UX team, learning and using HTML CSS and JavaScript, blogging on dev, and co‑organizing Nashville Women Programmers. Hiring tactics from PR include sending a custom branded application email that actually gets interviews. Cites a 2019 Stack Overflow stat: 37.6% of degree holders in tech lack a CS degree, arguing concrete hiring changes and transferable skills matter more than credentials.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Start
- 3:33The Joffrey Ballet School Summer Intensive
- 4:57Shin Splints
- 13:23Tondu
- 16:21To Get Feedback and Not Take It Personally
- 20:26Great Interview Skills
- 21:21Community Is Important
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