If you want to send me an email with some more details about your experience, etc I'd be happy to reach out to some recruiters I know and see if anyone has anything going.
jaye at claruscomputers.com.au
It depends on where your skills already lie. If you do front end work you should learn one of the big frameworks. Love them or hate them, they're here to stay. You should check out some of the remote jobs boards and see what people are asking for. You may as well start applying now instead of waiting for a year, at the very least you'll get a more in-depth knowledge of what people are looking for.
Along the lines of build something you need, think about your life and the way in which it could be better. Do some research on your ideas, if a product exists then you’ve found a way to improve your life. If it doesn’t exist, you have an idea. Either way, you win.
In your about me section, rather than saying "experienced in all stages of web development", use industry terms such as "full stack development" as you do on your Linkedin Profile. What sort of jobs are you applying for?
If I were you I'd be trying to highlight project management experience that you have from your architecture career. Talk about the number of people you supervised, budgets you managed, etc. While this may not be relevant to a junior web development role, if you want to move up later on it will show you are able to manage effectively.
The only other suggestion I have would be to start blogging. You've built a blogging web app but you aren't using your own product.
Although I wrote Full-Stack Web Developer right under my name I will add it to the about me section. I haven’t applied for any jobs yet. Updating my resume and LinkedIn profile for the first time in years to start the process this week.
I didn’t think anybody would pay much attention to what I did on my previous career so I abbreviated it. However it seems a good idea to provide these kind of details.
I'm only new to management, but I try to be fairly hands off unless someone needs something from me. My reasoning for this is, I'm the one who hired this person and if I did my job correctly in hiring the best person, they shouldn't need to be micromanaged.
I too am hands off with respect to managing. I am of the opinion that if you need to actively manage your directs, then you have not hired well. I am a point of escalation when there are incidents or when mediation is required; otherwise I trust individuals to make decisions and be accountable for them. They will mistakes and you should not protect them from it; they need those experiences to grow. For decisions that are irreversible (or really hard to undo), I encourage them to solicit input from me and peers outside the immediate team.
For individual career growth, I try to align interest with opportunities that arise. I give timely feedback, I recognize their successes with new challenges and increases in compensation.
As it concerns project planning, I help with ballpark estimates so as to inform resourcing decisions. I negotiate the scope of projects with product/business leaders.
I go about it in a bit of a round-about way. I'm a pretty introverted guy, so I make a point to work on soft skills like communication or public speaking to do demos. I've found that by getting out in front of others, they'll inevitably have questions for you, some of which you can't answer. If you let them know you'll get back to them with the answer, you become the "go to" person and you have someone else find an area you can improve on. The more you do this, the more you'll learn and eventually everything kind of falls into place.
I'm a full stack developer with nine years experience and my long term ambition is to be a CTO/CIO. I've worked with a pretty broad variety of clients from small businesses to Government contracts. I'm looking open to either remote work or a freelance contract at the moment, preferably with some leadership responsibilities. I've taken on the role of lead developer on my current contract and have really enjoyed mentoring other developers.
Feel free to add me on Linkedin or shoot me an email.
I'm a full stack developer with nine years experience and my long term ambition is to be a CTO/CIO. I've worked with a pretty broad variety of clients from small businesses to Government contracts. I'm looking open to either remote work or a freelance contract at the moment, preferably with some leadership responsibilities. I've taken on the role of lead developer on my current contract and have really enjoyed mentoring other developers.
Feel free to add me on Linkedin or shoot me an email.
No offense, but I found the writing for these stories to be pretty horrible. The idea and concept is great, but horrible execution. There is also some very poor grammar in there as well.
I don't know about human rights, but I've had this issue come up in the past. Went and saw a lawyer about it and the outcome was basically they can't stop you from working in your chosen field. It would be a different story though if you went to a rival company and took clients with you.
