Get Employed #4: Begin a Challenge

Welcome to the fourth episode of the Submit Standing Get Employed podcast! In it, Cory Miller (CEO of Submit Standing) and Courtney Robertson (Net Designer and Developer Advocate at GoDaddy) focus on portfolios.

In the course of the interview course of, you must have a portfolio of your work to share — even when it is not required. Typically a portfolio is required — portfolios are commonplace and anticipated together with resumes in lots of roles. Writers, designers, coders, and different creatives ought to all have up to date portfolios prepared for the appliance and interview course of.

However while you’re simply beginning out, how do you construct a portfolio from scratch? A challenge you create and use to study new abilities is a good way to start constructing a portfolio. It might be so simple as creating your personal web site or weblog.

On this episode of Get Employed, you will discover ways to enter the world of WordPress by beginning a challenge to share with hiring managers.

Each week Get Employed will aid you uncover careers in WordPress. Cory Miller and Courtney Robertson created this podcast collection for anybody beginning or creating a profession in WordPress. Cory and Courtney will stroll you thru all of the phases of job-seeking: determining what you actually wish to do in your profession, figuring out and buying the minimal abilities and instruments it is advisable grasp, methods to begin a challenge, and methods to become involved within the WordPress neighborhood. Comply with @GetHiredWP! Browse our archives, and don’t overlook to subscribe through Castos or by RSS.

Matters Lined in This Episode of Get Employed:

• Begin a WordPress Weblog
  • Share what by beginning a WordPress web site
  • Share your studying by running a blog about it
  • Showcase your work by embedding code onto your web site
  • Purchase writing abilities and expertise
• Begin or Contribute to a Code Challenge
  • GitHub portfolios could be linked to out of your WordPress.org profile

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About Courtney Robertson

Courtney Robertson is presently a Net Designer and Developer Advocate within the GoDaddy Professional crew and the co-rep of the Make WordPress Coaching Staff.

Courtney is pushed by the need to empower varied faculties, non-profit organizations, and companies in essentially the most unlikely locations by coaching their college students, employees, and enterprise neighborhood in enterprise and expertise to impression their economic system and high quality of residing. Range, fairness, inclusion, and belonging matter vastly to Courtney.

You may contact Courtney on LinkedIn, Twitter, or on her private web site.

About Cory Miller

Cory Miller is a passionate entrepreneur who believes find and sustaining work happiness whereas difficult you to do nice issues together with your life. In 2008, he began iThemes, a pioneer in constructing cutting-edge internet design software program and coaching, which he grew right into a multi-million greenback enterprise, and offered to Liquid Net in 2018. Along with being a daily management speaker, coach and author, he’s the co-author of WordPress All-in-One for Dummies (Wiley, 2011).

You may contact Cory on LinkedIn, Twitter, or on his private web site.

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