Tips From a Top Tech Recruiter | How To Land a Tech Job With No Experience? Bootcamps vs. Degrees?

THANK YOU FOR SHARING YOUR CONTENT.

HR = Highly Redundant.

LinkedIn is SO NOT (!!) any indicator for qualification and/or suitability for a role, it’s ridiculous to mention that first, like it was any kind of basic requirement. Some people, especially women, are very private, also, some jobs/companies indicate a company Realtek to them had issues - so you don’t link them public, you just have their details and often even direct numbers.

I took a 14 year sabbatical to tour the world then came back to the job market (part-time) and it was much easier than I thought about three years ago. I was very open with interviewing that I was really looking for something that could be as exciting as touring the world full time. That if it wasn't as compelling, I didn't want to be a part of it. Good talk Tiff! Best of luck to you on this channel and in your life.

Lisa who?

I think a good question to ask Lisa would be how to start a recruiting company in Canada?

Travelling the world is an accomplishment? Really? With your parents' money? Advising people to travel more? What world do these people live in? If that's an accomplishment then I can add hundreds of accomplishments to my CV. Hell, I built a shelter in the woods that was practically rain proof and large enough for four people to stand in and sleep in, and I did so (with someone else) in just an afternoon, because that's what you do when you're broke.

It's very hypocritical of these employers to speak of passion, when they shun those are truly passionate

Keep in mind that these are very Boomer answers from a Boomer… spending 4 years getting a degree will only help you learn about computers, actually attending a Bootcamp and actually doing projects will show you more than any college can. Also colleges aren’t teaching things like blockchain development right now.. shame that she says a degree shows anything when sometimes it doesn’t.

It's hard to show passion when you're relating to someone who's not passionate with what they do.

Cultural fit, lmao. Code words.

i dont have any experience but i know a lot. How would i demonstrate my knowledge with IT i can't do projects because im trying to get a helpdesk job

Most fkn useless and pointless interview I've ever seen. Without mentionting that vocal frying the whole interview, what a pain in the *ss to hear her.

"Thank you so much for the enlightening video! However, I respectfully disagree with Lisa's perspective, as I find it a bit too conventional or "square-minded". Let's remember that the conventional path isn't the only route to success.

For instance, many iconic tech founders opted out of formal education to build companies that have revolutionized the way we live. Some of the most notable examples include:

Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg, who both dropped out of Harvard to launch Microsoft and Facebook, respectively.
Steve Jobs left Reed College and went on to co-found Apple.
Larry Ellison, who dropped out of two universities, eventually created Oracle.
Michael Dell left the University of Texas at Austin to establish Dell Computer Corp.
Travis Kalanick left UCLA and later co-founded Uber.
Spotify was co-founded by Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon, both dropouts from the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden.
Evan Williams, co-founder of Twitter, dropped out of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.
Jan Koum left San Jose State University to work at Yahoo!, but he eventually co-founded WhatsApp.
Jack Dorsey left New York University, and later he co-founded Twitter and Square.
Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple, initially dropped out of the University of California, Berkeley but returned later to complete his degree.
David Karp, the founder of Tumblr, never attended college.
While formal education undoubtedly provides essential tools and knowledge, it's critical to keep in mind that innovation, determination, and a willingness to take risks are equally crucial to success. Every journey is unique and should be valued for what it contributes to the individual's growth and the broader society."- chatgpt4

Great content! Thanks for putting it out there. Subscribed.

Is she really anti-bootcamp? I mean the first 2 years of college are stupid, non-related gen ed credits. And degrees are so expensive! Does a bootcamp seem lazy to her? Seriously...*
*Sorry, actually in the middle of an essay about this kinda stuff - I've gotten a little passionate...

I am 45 years old with very little set aside for retirement at this point. I have always been curious about the stock market and have witnessed some people who played the game right and retired early because they used the stock market. When I ask them, most said that they invested very little to start with, but their portfolio grew. I do have a significant amount of capital that is required to start up but I have no idea what strategies and direction I need to approach to help me make decent returns

How do people view your projects? Do they test them or just look at your code?

We're not going to address the fact that the recruiter looks JUST like Mary-Louise Parker 🤔

LEARNING TO CODE IS NOT ENOUGH.

I’m just seeing this and just about jumped out of my chair! I have recently looked through hundreds of LinkedIn profiles and coding bootcamp grad portfolios. I’m saddened to see that most don’t understand what this recruiter is talking about.

I had to learn these things and so much more that this recruiter didn’t even get to discuss that allied me to finally get interviews and then land a job as a Software Engineer 👩🏾‍💻 at a company I LOVED.

Thanks so much for sharing this. I feel my purpose is to help people wake up so they can actually succeed!

Employers are missing out on many great minds in tech by emphasising networking and soft skills in the recruitment process. Many people in this field are introverts, tending towards solitary work, shying away from group activities and social chit chat.

thanks for this interview! 👍

This was a great interview! Very informative as I start my Cybersecurity Journey, Thanks!

The interview process makes me grateful that I’m self employed. It’s just the thought that I went through all that in uni just so I can go beg someone for a job, it’s crazy. Any volunteer work, internships I did & clubs I participated in were purely for my own skills development, so I didn’t have to ask for a job after graduation. I wish more would do the same, industry wants drones & wage slaves, not thinkers & innovators.

I got the same headphones from Amazon

Tiff in Tech is for "Toronto International Film Festival in Tech?"

Isn’t this the actress from weeds ?????

Most of tech is a service business else focus on product companies, focus which industry get in financial or medical or e-commerce. if you are we developer , you handle their websites. data analyst, scientist you needed knowledge of that industry so get some basic certification. nurses can be good fit for data analyst or scientist for medical domain. telecommunications or network you needed engineering domain. so basically if you don't go to C's engineering data analyst , web developer and data scientist everything else needed computer science degree.

The covid19 pandemic really threw a wrench in the gaps of work for people. Everything closed and no work available really changed things.

Awesome video 😎 👍

Getting a uni degree shows you have money. Teaching yourself shows dedication. Just because someone isn’t privileged financially doesn’t mean they’re not dedicated.

Muy interesantes preguntas. Gracias.

Every time I said I don't know they would say well that's what our company does most

I want to be a tech recruiter I got sales background but keep getting refused. So is it possible to start a 1 man business

Poor Tiff, she was bombarded all the time with an implicit "Go to school and get a degree" from the interviewer

Start ups are great? If you like being underpaid and overworked..

I feel more business need to understand what a college degree is for most young people.
They chose something because they needed to, not necessarily because they love it.
They often party and skate through with bare minimum effort and only finish because it costs so much money.
It often has nothing to do with dedication.
a self taught programmer, if they are actually strict about their learning and know how to teach themselves properly, they are way more dedicated, resilient and will be a more profitable hire for most employees .

With that said, there is the opposite scenario for both sides.
Some self taught people just aren't good at it, or they skip a ton of information cause they don't want to learn it.
There's also college students that take it very serious and do side projects at home to actually build skills.

If you only rely on what college teaches you, you are essentially useless to any employer on day 1. Where as if a self taught person was focused and built projects they entire time... They know how to effectively use the languages they pursued and also have skills in modern things that schools don't teach you like react etc...

I didnt know as a dev, i am expected to be doing everything(hobbies, graphic design, school certificates etc) apart from knowing my one and only job(programming) to the best of my abilities, in order to get hired?

What about if you go through a boot camp but ur previous job (not tech) was for 5 years. Would that show companies the same thing as sticking with a degree ?

I can't stand tech recruiters and HR people. They are the worst resources I go to when I need someone. They are absolutely clueless about what we want. They always bring the worst as if they don't know what the skillsets are and how to sieve through candidates, ending up wasting my time. I HATE them passionately. Unfortunately, they are the gatekeepers who don't know how to do their jobs. I'm the one who's going to be working that new resource, not you, lady.

How a recruiter without tech background can understand my side project. They are common bs that all hr love to tell. But truth is they only look for experience. In their eyes 6 months of non productive job experience is worth more then side projects. Because obviously they don’t know anything about tech and coding. Therefore only they can understand is number of years you worked not actual tech stack or code.

Such great advice! Thank you 👍🏻

Thank you for good interview

can you share the linkedin of the recruiter? 😊

So cool to see what Karen from Will and Grace is up to these days! 😂

A Group interview reminds me the gameshow, ''The Dating Game."