I gave a talk last year on "Hiring Juniors" at Melbourne Ruby about this topic. Here it is in text form: http://ryanbigg.com/2016/04/hiring-juniors. It's still relevant this year.
However, there is a MASSIVE gap between graduates coming from code academies or even people with little "real world" experience and companies hiring those people. Companies expect so much of juniors. Things like: * A "substantial" application built * Prior group work experience * Willingness to learn new things * The courage to admit you don't know things and to reach out for help when you need it * Possibly even contributing/contributed to open source People with not much industry experience don't really have these things, and yet companies want new people to have these things. We need to help more people to bridge this gap. What we should do as a community to help those people out is to volunteer our time as mentors. I do this already with one person. I'd like to do it with more but finding time is hard. More of us should do it. I'm sure there's people here who have spare time and could do it. This way, we can help these people bridge this gap. We can help them build apps of substance; things that they can use in their portfolio for when they apply for a job. We can help them contribute to open source for the first time. We can help them work on ideas for talks to give at meetups or even conferences. In Melbourne, there's the Hack Nights which are a great venue for this sort of thing. But you're not limited to just that. If you want to volunteer your time, I'd encourage you to create a new thread here, give a little explanation of who you are and what times you're available and what you'd like to help with. If you're a junior looking for help: you can start your own thread too. Don't be afraid to reach out here and ask for mentorship with anything at all. The Ruby community is the friendliest community I've ever been a part of. If you want to also, you can email me directly (m...@ryanbigg.com) and I can provide some light mentorship / direction as well. > On 3 Mar 2017, at 13:56, Michael Cindric <michael.cind...@sentia.com.au> > wrote: > > We have filled 2 jnr roles recently so they are out there > > > > Kind Regards, > …………………………………….. > Michael Cindrić | Sentia > Founder & CEO | Software Developer > > > e: michael.cind...@sentia.com.au | t: +61 2 800 35216 | m: 0403 526 226 | > d: +61 2 8381 3400 > > www.sentia.com.au > > > IMPORTANT > This message contains privileged and confidential information intended only > for the use of the recipient. If you are not the intended recipient of this > message you are hereby notified that you must not disseminate, copy or take > any action in reliance on it. If you have received this message in error > please notify sentia immediately. > >> On 3 Mar 2017, at 1:50 am, soto <sotokho...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Yes, I live in Melbourne and do not need any sponsorship. Not sure, how I >> missed that ad. >> Could you please post it here. >> >> >>> On Thursday, March 2, 2017 at 11:27:51 AM UTC+11, maxs wrote: >>> Hi soto, >>> >>> Where are you looking for jobs? >>> >>> We recently advertised for a junior rails developer position on Seek and >>> received precisely zero applications. >>> >>> >>>> On Wednesday, March 1, 2017 at 11:09:02 AM UTC+11, soto wrote: >>>> I was wondering why there are not many RoR jobs in Australia. I have been >>>> searching for one year, only found exactly 3 junior RoR jobs! >>>> Most organisations want someone with 2+ years experience. I am not sure, >>>> is it something that you born with. I have not heard any baby >>>> born with 2+ years RoR experience. Parents please share your experience. >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to rails-oceania+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to rails-oceania@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to rails-oceania+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to rails-oceania@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rails-oceania+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rails-oceania@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
