Ciklum Dnepr, November 2016

1. Ciklum Open Day November 2016
IT CareerAdvice or How to get your first
job in IT
Olga Samarina, People Partner

2. 1. Learning beside studying: Where to study? What to learn?
2. IT-sphere buzzwords: before you are in
3. Do you speak English?
4. Self-development plan
5. Get public!
6. Useful links
7. Q&A
Agenda:

3. Learning beside studying: Where to study?
 Education in IT companies
 Open source Education
 Online resources
 Communities
 Offline courses

4. Learning beside studying: What to learn?
Tell me and I forget.
Teach me and I remember.
Involve me and I learn.
Benjamin Franklin
 Technology landscape
 Product Life Cycle
 Roles in product life cycle
 Methodologies (Waterfall,
Lean/Kanban and SCRUM)

5.  Recruitment – refers to the overall process of attracting, selecting and appointing
suitable candidates for jobs (either permanent or temporary) within an organization.
 CV (Curriculum vitae) – is a written overview of a person's experience and other
qualifications.
 Job Interview – is a one-on-one interview consisting of a conversation between a job
applicant and a representative of an employer which is conducted to assess whether
the applicant should be hired.
 Job offer – is an invitation for a potential employee, whether he or she has applied for
a job, or not, to become an employee in your organization.
IT-sphere buzzwords: before you are in

6. Do you speak English?
If you think so then you can:
 Read and understand a job
description
 Compose a CV
 Pass an interview in English
 Ask the client for more details
 Ask the community for an advice

7. Self-development plan
5th
course
4th course
3rd course
2nd course
1st course
Just learning 
Get to know processes
and technologies.
Making choice where to go further.
Start attending courses in IT
companies.
Get your first job in IT (part time or full time)
Be promoted to a MIDDLE 

8. Self-development plan
Directions
of self-
education
Technologies
and
tools
English
language
Management
Methodologies
Business
models
Roles
in
SWDLC
Train
your
soft‐skills

9. Get public!
 Keep up to date in Social Media &
Tech (Linkedin, Facebook, Github,
Meetup)
 Attend community’s meetups
 Knowledge-sharing (news, useful
links)

10. Useful links:
Programming(free):
https://www.codecademy.com/
https://www.coursera.org/
http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/intro-programming/
https://www.class-central.com/ - aggregator of online courses
Programming(paid):
https://www.codeschool.com/
https://teamtreehouse.com/
Education in IT companies:
http://www.returnonintelligence.com.ua/company/education/courses/
http://isd.dp.ua/ru/career-ru/education-ru.html
https://softserve.ua/ru/university/it-academy/

11. Useful links:
IT Educational Centers:
http://www.levelup.dp.ua/
http://skillup.com.ua/
http://itschool-hillel.org/
http://itstep.dp.ua/
Online resources and communities:
http://dou.ua/
https://habrahabr.ru/
http://qacommunity.com.ua/
Some other useful websites:
http://stackoverflow.com/ - wiki for Software developers
https://github.com/ - open source
https://www.producthunt.com/
http://www.meetup.com/

12. Q&A