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Secret Strategies to Win Promotions Other Devs Can’t Get
Entrepreneur
By Andrew McDermott,
Getting a job promotion isn't as straightforward as you might think. Learn the secrets to getting that critical edge to ensure your career advancement.
How to Keep Working Remotely in a Post-COVID-19 World
Entrepreneur
By Dan Fries,
Dan Fries offers tips on how to convince your boss to let you continue working productively and securely from home in a post-COVID-19 world.
How to Make a Career Transition Into Web Development
Entrepreneur
By Ivan Kreimer,
Learning to code after hours? Learn three key strategies to help you leave your day job behind and make the career transition to full-time developer.
Build Your Personal Brand to Boost Your Developer Career
Entrepreneur
By Adrian Sandu,
Adrian Sandu explains what a personal brand is and how building one can help boost your career. Stake your claim online and level up your brand.
How to Prepare for a Remote Job Search
Entrepreneur
By Joshua Kraus,
Joshua Kraus explores how to conduct a remote job search, impress remote employers, nail interviews, and land a remote job that best fits your needs.
Productive Remote Work (When Your Mental Health Says “No”)
Entrepreneur
By Daniel Schwarz,
Daniel Schwarz explores the downsides of remote work and offers tips for aligning your mind and body to make remote working work for you.
How the Top 1% of Candidates Ace Their Job Interviews
Entrepreneur
By Andrew McDermott,
Top 1% candidates are uncommon. Not because they're so special, but because of their decision-making process. Learn how they make decisions differently.
4 Signs It’s a Bad Idea to Quit Your Job
Entrepreneur
By Andrew McDermott,
Is it a bad idea to quit a job you hate right now? How do you know? It's not something we're taught in school. Andrew McDermott provides some perspective.
Is the Rise of Millennial Women in Tech Just an Illusion?
Entrepreneur
By Angela Phung,
Are more younger women entering the tech industry? Or have women always been involved but tend to leave the industry as they get older?
Why the Highest-Paid Developers “Fight” Their Coworkers
Entrepreneur
By Andrew McDermott,
At some point, if it hasn't happened already, your coworkers or your boss will ask you to do something foolish.
How to Grow Your Business from $0 to $20M
Entrepreneur
By John Fairhurst,
John Fairhurst introduces Steve McLeod, founder and chairman of Fire and Safety Australia, Australia’s leading safety training company, exploring his secrets on how he grew his business from the ground up.
Tech Recruiting, Finding Niches & Starting Your Own Business
Entrepreneur
By Angela Phung,
In this interview, Joe Woodham discusses recruiting for a tech start-up, finding your niche, and starting your own business.
10 Reasons to Meet New People – and How a Mobile App Can Help
Entrepreneur
By Adrian Try,
Here are ten ways that networking can help you learn, collaborate and grow, and how Shapr, a mobile app, can help you facilitate that.
Here are the 5 Things Great Designers Do Differently
Design & UX
By Tobi Abdulgafar,
Web and interface designers are becoming a dime a dozen, Tobi explains what great designers do to stand out from the crowd.
How to Build a Virtual Design Team with 99designs
Design & UX
By Daniel Schwarz,
99designs is a marketplace for finding the best design talent, but did you know that you can curate your own on-call team of super-designers? Here's how.
6 Unexpected Mistakes That Keep Developers from Getting a Raise
Entrepreneur
By Andrew McDermott,
Wondering why you got passed over for a raise after doing a stand-out job? Andrew McDermott explains six mistakes developers make in their careers.
25 Design Conferences That Will Blow Your Mind in 2017
Design & UX
By Valeriia Timokhina,
Valeriia Timokhina spills the beans on the best design and UX conferences to attend in 2017. Stay up to date with the latest advancements in your industry.
How to Leave Your Terrible Job or Project This Year
Entrepreneur
By Daniel Schwarz,
You've decided it's time to leave a job that isn't paying enough, or is making you miserable. Daniel Schwarz shows you how to leave without burning bridges.
How to Become a Better Developer by Coding Less
Entrepreneur
By Andrew McDermott,
Andrew McDermott explains a system that helps developers overcome impostor syndrome and developer's block.
6 Red Flags That Signal the End of Your Career
Entrepreneur
By Andrew McDermott,
Some career red flags are obvious, but the most common ones hide in our blind spots. Andrew McDermott shows you how to detect them.
Use Indeed Prime to Get Matched with Only the Best Companies
Entrepreneur
By Stephen Altrogge,
Indeed Prime helps developers, product managers, data scientists, designers, and sales professionals simplify their job searches and land their dream jobs.
5 Simple Strategies to Double Your Salary
Entrepreneur
By Andrew McDermott,
It may sound excessive, but if you're a developer with a plan and determination, you can double your salary. Andrew McDermott explains his strategy.
You’re the Best Developer on the Team — Why It’ll Cost You Your Job
Entrepreneur
By Andrew McDermott,
Being the best developer - or the best at anything - can cost you everything, if you let it. Andrew McDermott explains why, and how to avoid that fate.
11 High-paying and Remote Jobs In High Demand in 2016
Web
By Ellie Martin,
Ellie Martin presents some of the highest-paying work opportunities for those looking to work remotely in the tech industry.
8 Common Mistakes That Get Developers Fired
Entrepreneur
By Andrew McDermott,
Think you'll avoid those silly mistakes that get others fired? Think again. Andrew McDermott explains the 8 mistakes that really get developers fired.
Learning to Code after 40: If You Think It’s Too Late, Read This
Entrepreneur
By Joshua Kraus,
Joshua Kraus speaks with two developers about learning to code, and starting to work in the field, after the age of 40.
Why You Should Make the Worst Parts of Web Development Even Worse
Entrepreneur
By Andrew McDermott,
When things are bad, working as a web developer can be hell. Andrew McDermott explains why sometimes the best thing you can do is to make things worse.
Are You Prepared for an Automated Future?
Entrepreneur
By Joel Falconer,
The future of work has changed a lot over the past decade. It's going to change again - by disappearing.
3 Ways to Work More Effectively in a Web Development Team
Programming
By Camilo Reyes,
Camilo Reyes shares some important tips on working effectively in a team, growing as a programmer, and stepping up as a leader.
6 Stupid Mistakes Smart Developers Should Make
Entrepreneur
By Andrew McDermott,
Andrew McDermott looks at six things developers should do -- even when everyone around you says it's a mistake.