Meet Adam Broda 🇺🇸! Adam is a tech lead and career coach who helps career changers break into tech. He did the same - after a decade of working in aerospace engineering at Boeing, Adam now works at Amazon! Through his coaching business, Broda Coaching, Adam aids career transitioners in constructing personalized job search strategies.
In this episode, Adam unveils the four pillars of his framework: identifying your passions, skills, desired environment, and needed compensation. Alex and Adam also delve into the current state of the job market: have we moved beyond significant tech layoffs, are return-to-office policies contributing to attrition, and what implications do these factors have for software development jobs? Adam will also tech you about different phases of networking—short-term networking, advocacy networking, and engagement networking—detailing how to navigate each of them and which one is most effective.
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⏰ Timestamps
- How Adam transitioned into IT (and became a career coach) after a long career in the aerospace industry (01:30)
- Adam's engineering background vs. his new roles (05:19)
- The tech industry changes frequently (08:32)
- How Broda Coaching came about (10:32)
- Fail fast! (14:22)
- The state of the tech job market (and should we be worried about layoffs (15:32)
- Why is there fewer junior roles? (18:12)
- Returning to the office forces attrition (19:41)
- Does social media give you a good overview of what's happening in the job market? (20:59)
- Before the pandemic, junior roles had a lower experience requirement (23:19)
- Adam's job-hunting strategy (23:51)
- Start with your why (25:14)
- Passions, skills, environment, and compensation (27:13)
- Is niching down limiting your opportunities? (28:02)
- Adam's three-phase networking approach (32:17)
- Demonstrate potential! (36:07)
- Go where you're passionate (39:50)
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