How an effective portfolio landed Claire her first remote Junior Developer role

🎙 About the episode

Claire Ramming is a successful Scrimba student from New York City 🇺🇸, who recently got their first full-time developer job 🎉! Before learning to code, Claire studied Data Science and received mentorship on how to choose projects that standout and navigate the job market without a degree. Claire joins us today to share the tactics she learned and how specifically they helped her land this awesome new opportunity. Stay tuned for the end where Alex asks Claire a mock job interview question.

🔗 Connect with Claire

• 👨🏻‍💼 LinkedIn
• 🌐 Website
• 👩‍🚀 GitHub
• 🤖 clay2k#2840 on the Scrimba Discord

⏰ Timestamps

• Introduction (0:00)
• Claire's first lines of code (01:30)
• Building a standout portfolio full of projects (03:55)
• Can you use Scrimba projects in your portfolio? (05:23)
• Changing companies without your boss knowing 🤫 (06:45)
• Claire's clever idea to apply to Asana by cloning their app (08:50)
• Finding success on Hired (09:07)
• How to successfully answer "Tell us about yourself" (14:23)
• Do. Your. Homework. (15:41)
• How to answer "Do you like to work alone or as part of a team?" (16;08)
• In-depth account of Claire's interview process and how long it took for them to get back  (17:17)
• What would Claire do differently if they did it again? (24:42)
• Mock interview question: "What is the hardest thing you've ever done?" (26:35)

🧰 Resources mentioned

• Hired
• Mapbox (SDK for adding maps to apps like Uber Eats)
• The data science bootcamp Claire attended (Springboard)

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