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⭐ Check out our Job Transition Success Guide for more guidance on setting yourself up for success your first year on the job.
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Steps for a successful transition
- Prepare yourself- take a mental break and time to prepare/ask questions
- Document the people who you are able to ask questions to
- Planning now for any languages/frameworks/tools you need to learn
- Company research
- Interviewing former interns and getting their advice
- Take ownership over your own learning- what resources are available to you?
- Internal company documentation
- YouTube tutorials and easy projects
- Udemy and online courses
- How do you learn best?
- Build credibility (trust) early- secure early and easy wins! “Low-hanging fruit”
- On point with communication (emails, showing up on time, over-communicating, being reliable and consistent in communication)
- Debugging small/easy stuff
- Showing up
- Preparation and research
- Enthusiasm
- Reading through company’s documentation and being easy to coach
- Implementing feedback as soon as possible
- Align on what success looks like by meeting with your supervisor to discuss
- You need to make sure this conversation happens
- YOU need evidence of your success in this internship so that you can use it to: secure a return offer, write compelling stories/bullet points on your resume, have compelling real experience
- YOU need to be able to speak to metrics and outcomes for YOUR future
- Will help you to make case for future salary reviews/upgrades
- Build relationships- future referrals/references/recommendations and possible allies/interpreters
- Your network is everything
- When you’re working somewhere, you have INSTANT access to people working in tech roles (that proximity needs to be taken advantage of)
- Documentation is everything- wins, projects, STAR stories, contact info for allies and advocates
- Just create a google/notion/whatever doc to take messy notes in that can be organized later, especially the good things and accomplishments
- Build the experience you need
- What story do you want to be able to tell about this experience?