Passions, Skills, Environment, and Compensation: Career Coach Adam Broda's Framework for Navigating Today's Job Market

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Jan 17, 2024

Career coach Adam Broda discusses his framework for navigating today's job market, including identifying passions, skills, environment, and compensation. They also discuss the current state of the job market and different phases of networking. Other topics include transitioning from aerospace engineering to tech, leveraging self-taught expertise, and the importance of passion and trusting your gut in your career.

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Introduction

00:00 • 5min

Navigating the Software Side of Product Management

05:20 • 9min

Navigating the Job Market: Networking and Career Strategy

14:20 • 20min

Leveraging Self-Taught Expertise and Demonstrating Value in the Job Market

34:34 • 2min

Impressive Freshman Engineer Lands Job Offer with Non-Traditional Approach

36:21 • 2min

The Importance of Passion, Trusting Your Gut, and an Iterative Approach to Your Career

38:47 • 4min

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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