Speaking Ideas for Meetups

[werner33]

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About You

Your Name:
Jordan Manley

Twitter handle (optional):

The best way to reach out to you:
jordan@codetrack.dev

A quick bio:

Self-taught software engineer with 7 years of experience. For the last two years I have worked as an instructor teaching at Pursuit.org. Prior to that I worked at B&H Photo as a Front End Engineer.

In my free time, I've developed CodeTrack, a free platform for guiding and tracking developers to career success.

Your Talk

Title:
Options:

1. Leading With Your Work: How to get Interviews with No Resume
2. CodeTrack: How I Built This

What your talk is about:

1.Leading With Your Work

When I was looking for my first job, I didn't have anything relevant on my resume. No degree, no highschool diploma, no GED, no relevant work experience. I had to rely on my work to get interviews and then my skill to get me through the interview.

Here is a link to an article touching on the same theme.

Here is a slide show that I might use but it gives a good idea of the talk.

2. CodeTrack: How I Built This

CodeTrack utilizes several APIs in non-traditional ways. It's required creativity and reaching out to some companies to see if they would make changes to their API so that I could integrate with it better.

CodeTrack is a fun product to explore as it is part education, part game and part resume for developers.

I would focus on one-two features and break them apart to show how I built them.

How long will your talk be?

• 5-15 minutes (lightning talk)
• 20-30 minutes
• 30-45 minutes
• 60 minutes or more

Happy to do any length, really.

Meta

Do you need help crafting your talk?

• Yes
• No

[SteveChenDC]

@werner33 thanks for submitting this! @Danamitecoder mind chatting with Jordan?

We chatted earlier this week over a call and met him in person at the last event!

[Danamitecoder]

Hello @SteveChenDC and @werner33 !
Took a quick look at the article/presentation you shared. I think your talk would be of high interest for our participants! Would you be available for a quick chat sometime this week?

[werner33]

Sure. I’m free any evening Mon-wed at 6 or any afternoon at 2 Would that work for you?

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[Danamitecoder]

We have space this Sunday 2/5 following another presentation, would you be interested in giving this talk then? I'm not available at 2pm tomorrow but could do anytime after 6pm for a quick chat or anytime before noon on Saturday. Please let me know. Thanks!

[werner33]

This Sunday would be fine. I'll probably give the first of the two talks I mentioned about leading with your work to land a job. Can we talk at 10am on Saturday? Thanks and looking forward!

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On Thu, Feb 2, 2023 at 3:07 PM Dana Lee ***@***.***> wrote: We have space this Sunday 2/5 following another presentation, would you be interested in giving this talk then? I'm not available at 2pm tomorrow but could do anytime after 6pm for a quick chat or anytime before noon on Saturday. Please let me know. Thanks! — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#8 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AAFJB3NOQ3R5CQ47URE5QN3WVQHXLANCNFSM6AAAAAAUNAB7JY> . You are receiving this because you were mentioned.Message ID: ***@***.***>

[Danamitecoder]

Wonderful!! Talk to you at 10am on Saturday!