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| User name: | caleqele |
| Name: | sixteen Excellent Work That Do not Need A Several-Yr Level |
| Website: | http://sites.google.com/site/bestjobsfor17yearolds/ |
| Bio: | After earning a Bachelor’s degree and two Master’s from Loyola University, Jay Wengrow was working as an intern at doggyloot.com, a discount dog product retailer in Chicago. Though he’d learned plenty of theoretical ideas while earning his M.S. in software engineering, he didn’t have the hands-on skill the company needed in a web developer. He hunkered down and taught himself the programming language Ruby on Rails. “You don’t walk out of university being job ready,” he says.
Those on-the-job skills, rather than his university degrees, helped him land a job as a web developer at apartment-listing website Apartments.com, where he got involved in hiring. When he and his colleagues evaluated candidates, they hardly noticed whether the applicants had college degrees on their résumés. “We asked people to submit samples,” Wengrow says. “The work speaks for itself.” Code samples or postings on the code sharing site Github.com mattered most. Wengrow and his colleagues also cared about whether the candidates’ personalities fit in with the office’s easygoing atmosphere. “Of the people we hired, I have no idea who had a degree or not,” he says. “It was such a minimal factor. If we liked them and thought they were cool and they wrote good-quality code, that’s all that mattered.” Web developer, with a median salary the Bureau of Labor Statistics pegs at $62,500 is one of 16 jobs the job listing and career advice website CareerCast has identified on a new list of what it says are well-paying, high-growth jobs that don’t require a four-year college degree. After realizing that programming skills were the key to getting a web developer job, Wengrow has left Apartments.com to launch Anyone Can Learn to Code, which will offer a 12-week “boot camp” he’s targeting at people who are working but want to switch careers to web development. Classes will run during nights and weekends and there are no prerequisites. High school drop-outs are as welcome as Ph.ds. Coding cram courses have become popular as demand for developers keeps rising. The BLS forecasts the field growing by 20% between 2012 and 2022. Wengrow is pricing his course at $8,000, mid-range for these programs. (A good clearinghouse for developer boot camps is at coursereport.com, founded late last year.) |
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