<div dir="ltr">Good afternoon everyone,<div><br></div><div>Some time ago I hosted an evening workshop with codebar about starting a career as a developer that appears to have been well-received. I also give a similar presentation to Makers Academy students and have had people who saw it giving me good feedback about it at the pub after LRUG a few times.</div><div><br></div><div>I'm running it as an evening seminar on May 10th in central London. Tickets cost £25 (enough to cover venue with a bit of change), with 12 on public release and 4 seats reserved for codebar students.</div><div><br></div><div>Here are some nice things that people have said about this material:<br><br></div><div><i>“Thank you Ali for such an invigorating talk that demystified the big scary topic of building a developer career. It definitely helps to have such practical and useful tips to navigate the painful process of starting out not knowing where to put your feet.”<br></i><br></div>
<div><b><i>- Amy Yang - </i><a href="https://twitter.com/AycYang"><span class=""><i>@aycyang</i></span></a><i>, quote from </i><a href="https://mongolianprincess.net/2015/11/11/week-5-day-25-kick-start-your-developer-career/"><span class=""><i>a blog post about the presentation</i></span></a><i>.</i> </b><br><p class=""><span class=""><i>“Ali gave a talk at Makers Academy on how to start a successful career. This presentation was rated as the most useful guest talk ever at Makers Academy.”</i></span></p><p class=""><b><i>- Evgeny Shadchnev - </i><a href="https://twitter.com/shadchnev"><span class=""><i>@shadchnev</i></span></a><i> , Co-founder of </i><a href="http://www.makersacademy.com/"><span class=""><i>Makers Academy</i></span></a></b></p>
<p class=""><span class=""><i>“I wouldn’t have had the courage to get my first job as a developer without going to this talk. There are so many things I hadn’t thought of, like what I want from an employer, how to approach salary negotiation and of course the all-important tech stack.”</i></span></p>
<p class=""><span class=""><b><i>- Olu Niyi-Awosusi - </i><span class=""><i><a href="https://twitter.com/oluoluoxenfree">@oluoluoxenfree</a></i></span></b></span></p><p class="">You can find more information about the event and buy tickets here: <a href="https://ti.to/kickstart-your-developer-career/kydc-evening-workshop-may-2016">https://ti.to/kickstart-your-developer-career/kydc-evening-workshop-may-2016</a><br><br>If you have any questions feel free to let me know on or off list as you see fit.</p><p class="">Thanks,</p><p class="">-Ali, <a href="https://happybearsoftware.com">https://happybearsoftware.com</a></p></div></div>