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You're dead-set on completing a coding Bootcamp to finesse your tech skills and land your first high-earning tech job. You’ve spent time mentally preparing yourself for the switch in gear, researching the needs of businesses you’d ultimately like to apply for; perhaps you even pride yourself in already knowing your carets from your carrots? For all intents and purposes, you have caught the tech bug.

Welcome to ‘Beyond The Code’ a monthly Northcoders interview series, where we ask the big questions surrounding the lives of those who work in contemporary tech.

In last month’s blog, ‘Is Tech Only For Logical Thinkers?’, we explored what skills make a good coder, and determined that there is much more to the tech profession than just being logical. 

Around 70% of tech workers feel as if they are imposters who only got to where they are due to blind luck, or by appearing to peers as being more intelligent than they feel they actually are.

Networking is the process of forming connections with potential future co-workers & employers, and making new relationships with other people across the space, and a big part of what we do here at Northcoders is help people get the careers in tech they're looking for using the various networks we provide for our students. This blog aims to highlight the ways you can start networking effectively.

Brains are marvellous things. The brain is the physical manifestation of our consciousness, hosting 86 billion neurons that constantly fire to make connections with synapses, ultimately giving way to our body’s speech, thought, and movement, among other abilities.

Interviews can seem daunting no matter how seasoned you are at them, especially when you are changing careers. However, being well prepared is often the key to acing them.

Data engineering is a rapidly growing specialism in the tech sector concerned with collecting, accessing, and storing raw data. They use their engineering knowledge to build systems to ensure this raw data can be easily analysed – typically by data scientists or business analysts.

Struggling to talk about your professional strengths when writing your CV? Fear not! We’ve laid out a step-by-step route to writing a perfect CV for your first tech job. We hope this blog will give you inspiration, tips, good guidance and good practice for those of you graduating from the Northcoders bootcamp.