🎓 View our courses: https://scrimba.com/links/all-courses Passions, Skills, Environment, and Compensation: Career Coach Adam Broda's Framework for Navigating Today's Job Market 🎙 About the episode 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 (https://www.brodacoaching.com/), 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. 🔗 Connect with Adam 👨💼 Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamrbroda/ 🌐 Website https://www.brodacoaching.com/ ⏰ 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) OUR FREE ONLINE COURSES 💸 Enroll in the Frontend Developer Career Path - https://scrimba.com/learn/frontend 📚 See all our courses - https://scrimba.com/allcourses ⚛️ Learn React for free - https://scrimba.com/learn/learnreact 💛 Learn JavaScript for free: https://scrimba.com/learn/learnjavasc... 📝 Learn HTML and CSS free - https://scrimba.com/learn/htmlandcss 🌲 Linktree: https://scrimba.com/links/linktree