🎓 View our courses: https://scrimba.com/links/all-courses Meet Amy Posten 🇺🇸! Amy was a veterinary technician for fifteen years before she decided to switch careers. First, she discovered freeCodeCamp while on maternity leave. Later, she joined a premium bootcamp but didn't feel quite ready to apply for coding jobs afterward, so she turned to Scrimba to polish her skills. Nowadays, she's a front-end engineer and instructor. In this episode, you'll learn how to figure out what kind of job you want and what was a small change in her job-hunting approach that brought Amy immediate results. You'll discover what are the gaps in knowledge one might have after a bootcamp, and how you can make learning to code less lonely. Finally, Amy and Alex discuss generative AI tools and how you can use them in your job hunt. 🔗 Connect with Amy 👩💼 Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/aeposten/ ⏰ Timestamps How Amy became a Veterinary Technician (01:32) Maternity leave on freeCodeCamp, and a career change brought up by the pandemic (04:38) Why Amy likes JavaScript, HTML, and CSS (06:59) Why Amy decided to join a bootcamp (08:56) The importance of getting to connect with people (11:16) Social media break with Jan the Producer (12:43) How to make learning to code less lonely (14:12) Joining a bootcamp is like drinking from a fire hose (16:27) Amy discovered Scrimba through her bootcamp! (18:31) After the bootcamp, Amy also joined the Scrimba bootcamp (19:37) Why Amy decided to start from scratch on Scrimba (21:35) How Amy found her north star and became a teacher (24:48) Amy changed her approach to job applications and got immediate results! (28:26) Amy's reach-out strategy and how she got a job interview at the company she currently works at (31:52) How to figure out what kind of job you want (35:11) Amy's job interview (36:04) How to use AI tools in your job hunt (40:22) 🧰 Resources Mentioned Scrimba podcast: The State of React (and Should You Still Learn It in 2024), with Dev Agrawal https://podcast.scrimba.com/148 Scrimba podcast: An expert guide to technical interviews with Ian Douglas https://podcast.scrimba.com/58 Scrimba podcast: This Is How You Onboard: Actionable Tips for Developers On a New Job from Ian Douglas https://podcast.scrimba.com/58 Learn React for free! https://scrimba.com/playlist/p7P5Hd Scrimba Bootcamp https://scrimba.com/bootcamp Scrimba's Discord community https://scrimba.com/community 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