Season 2, Episode 6: How to Manage Tech Recruiters

In this episode, I talk about how to deal with finding a job and using the great – and sometimes frustrating – technical recruiters. I breakdown the types of recruiters and the most common questions that a recruiter will ask including the best answers to give! Knowing how to interact with recruiters is one essential part in landing a job in the tech industry.

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Season 2, Episode 4: Build Your Own Tech Community

It’s time for action! It’s time to build your own tech community and not wait for one to pop up for you! I will share the tips that I had for building my own tech community online and locally.

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Season 2, Episode 3: Build Your Own PC

Join myself, Bobby, and Nuru as we go through our PC Building experience and even walk through a pre-built PC and give our personal recommendations! We also go over our pitfalls of building our own PCs and where you can shave off dollars and not impact performance.

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Season 2, Episode 2: #blacklivesmatter

I can’t just go back to recording like everything is normal when it’s not; it’s never been.

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Season 2, Episode 1: How to Beat Your PIP

PIPs. Personal Improvement Plans. Performance Improvement Plans. Whatever. Are you on a PIP? Scared that you will be on a PIP? Think that it’s going to be career ending? Hear how Jocelyn went through a PIP and her guidelines to safely get yourself through it.

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Season 2 Trailer

Season 2?! Let’s get into it!

Season 2?! You’re damn right it’s time for season 2. Get your podcast apps READY.

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Ep 17: Working From Home: Stay Safe and Sane, Friends

A quick, unedited podcast for all of my technologists out there! Stay safe, stay sane. We can get through this.

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Ep 16: Fix That Software Engineer Resume

IMPORTANT SHOW NOTE: In this episode I mentioned looking over resumes for free and also supplying a resume templates. Resume reviews can be scheduled through my Calend.ly https://calendly.com/jocelynharper, and the template will be available later on in the week! Sorry for any confusion.

If you are having a hard time getting a software engineering interview, there’s a HIGH chance that no one is finding you interesting through your resume. In this episode, I will discuss the tips and formatting that I use for my resume to get those interviews!

Also please note I recorded this before the Ravens got destroyed by the Titans. Please think of me in this difficult time.

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Ep 15: Preparing for the Google Interview

Remember how I said that software engineering interviews are hard? What about prepping for what is widely renowned as the hardest of them all? GOOGLE. Let me tell you – I did not even go through the interview, but the preparation was A LOT.

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Ep 14: Happy New Year!

What is in store for Git Cute Podcast in 2020? Nothing that can be revealed yet, but you can be certain that it will be cute and very opinionated. -x

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Ep 13: The Plan of Attack [AWS]

I only read one chapter. Please don’t bite.

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Ep 12: Study with Me! AWS Solutions Architect Associate Certification

What better way to study for my AWS Solutions Architect Associate Certification exam than have hundreds of people holding me accountable? It actually sounds like my worst nightmare, but let’s do it anyway!

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Ep 11: NO. MORE. TECH. MEETINGS.

We all know that we are sick and tired of meetings, but if we can’t get out of them, how do we make them more productive? We’ll take about it in this week’s episode!

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Ep 8: Full Stack Developer or Nah?

On today’s short yet sweet episode, we get into the odd back and forth about the role of a full stack engineer, what it actually means, and if it is even an achievable role.

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Ep 7: Software Engineer Interviews Are HARD

Coding interviews are hard… really hard! Let’s dive into why they are so hard and the resources that you will need to get through it.

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Ep 6: Y’all Don’t Deserve Us in Tech

Women of color go out of their way every day in technology to educate the community in the ongoing oppression and aggression that happen every day. Y’all need to do better.

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Ep 5: LEEEEROOYYYY JENKINS (The DevOps Tool)

That’s right – I’m talking about Jenkins! I was put into a DevOps role unwillingly, but I ended up loving it and loving all aspects of CI/CD, and naturally, I had to start off with my love for Jenkins.

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Ep 4: I Guess Coding Is Hard (Bootcamps Pt. 2)

I talk about everything from time and stress management to how you need to get your social anxiety under control and go network! (Really. Go.)

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Ep 3: What? Coding? Like It’s Hard? (Bootcamps Pt. 1)

What Coding? Like It’s Hard? (Bootcamps) Coding is hard, but learning it isn’t as hard as most people think. In the first episode of Git Cute Podcast, we discussed the different ways that people tend to get into software engineer and technology, but a more in depth view of coding bootcamps were needed.

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Ep ??: I’m Not Dead

I’m Not Dead! A small update on where I’ve been and what’s coming next.

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Ep 2: Now Mock Those Tests Out Now

Warning: Incoming ranting! With the second episode we are going B I G: Software Testing! Unit testing, integration testing, regression testing – you name it I talk about it.

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Ep 1: Breaking Into Tech is Hard (But Worth It)

This week on the very first episode of Git Cute Podcast, I dive into the best ways to break into the tech industry.

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