
TJ Kinion
Program Manager
LearningFuze
Irvine, CA USA
“Too often people look at passions and jobs as needing to line up perfectly. Instead, try to find roles or companies that might incorporate your passion, but not be obvious.”
LearningFuze
Irvine, CA USA
“Too often people look at passions and jobs as needing to line up perfectly. Instead, try to find roles or companies that might incorporate your passion, but not be obvious.”
Program Manager
I help people prepare for our coding bootcamp as well as coach them through the job search process afterwards.
My day is mixed between speaking with people interested in our program, helping students with their job search process, and helping the program grow. For people interested in a coding bootcamp like LearningFuze, it's important that they know that they are getting into before diving in. When it comes to helping people through the job process there are so many factors that come into play; resume building, LinkedIn profile optimization, mock interviews, and even helping them to negotiate.
Here's the first step for everyone
If getting into Career Services and Programming, I would first make sure you've been through both of them yourself. Hopefully you've been through a few job searches and seen a few interviews to know what to tell people. With coding, it's something that everyone can do but it is not easy. Before diving into it, why not try out some online tutorials before committing to classes. Once you've got some experience under your belt, it will be much easier to help others.
"That I should chase the money, stay close to home or where you went to school, and that computer programming was for engineering-types. Luckily much of the discouragement didn't go so far as to say, "You can't do it", but was, "Are you sure about this?""