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Developer Career Masterplan

You're reading from   Developer Career Masterplan Build your path to senior level and beyond with practical insights from industry experts

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801818704
Length 310 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Bruno Souza Bruno Souza
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Heather VanCura Heather VanCura
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1 The Basics: Learn and Practice the Technical Skills
2. Chapter 1: The Secret to Learning about Technology Quickly and Continuously FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Choose Your Best Path for Learning, Training, and Certifications 4. Chapter 3: Optimize Your Support Network for Growth 5. Chapter 4: Acquire the Right Skills Deliberately 6. Chapter 5: Stepping Outside Your Comfort Zone 7. Part 2 Get Involved: Participate in the Community
8. Chapter 6: Become a Team Player by Embracing Communities 9. Chapter 7: Focus Your Growth by Giving and Receiving Mentoring 10. Chapter 8: Be Part of a Larger Group – Meeting People at User Groups and Meetups 11. Chapter 9: Grow Your Network through Social Media 12. Chapter 10: Build Lasting Relationships 13. Part 3 Create Impact: Share and Lead
14. Chapter 11: Build Trust and Solve Problems with Open Source Projects 15. Chapter 12: Scaling Trust through Public Engagement: Speaking and Blogs 16. Chapter 13: Be a Leader: Manage Up, Down, and Across Your Organization 17. Chapter 14: Stepping Up Your Technology Game – Defining Technology Instead of Merely Using It 18. Chapter 15: Build Your Personal Brand and Become a Trusted Advisor 19. Index 20. Other Books You May Enjoy

Leveraging your personal brand professionally

All of this may sound like a full-time job of helping others and that it will not bring any benefit to you and your career. So let’s take a look at how doing everything we’ve discussed can actually help you professionally.

Trust leads to opportunity

First of all, trust is the best way to create opportunities and get amazing positions. The best-paying, most interesting, and challenging positions in the market are offered to people that we trust. When someone has an interesting position inside their company or is working on an interesting project and needs help from someone, they will invite someone they trust to be part of it. The same thing happens inside companies. When teams, managers, and developers need help to hire someone, they will look for people that they trust. When you build trust with other developers, managers, and people from different companies, you increase the chance that someone that trusts you will...

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