Check out the newest experience addition to the GitHub Global Campus and the Student Developer Pack—Career Readiness! Get job-search ready today.

Wondering how to prepare for a career in tech?

The Career Readiness Experience takes you on a 4 module journey through different exercises designed to help you organize your skills and talents to launch a job, internship or Octernship search. We'll cover everything from identifying your career goals and building your personal brand to networking, preparing your application materials, and acing your interviews.

Whether you're a new grad or a career changer, this experience will help you navigate the job search process confidently and land your next job.

What can you do with the Career Readiness Experience?

The Career Readiness Experience launches 1 week at a time for 4 weeks starting 2/16/23. You can access them in the following order:

• Week 1: Starting 2/16
• Week 2: Starting 2/23
• Week 3: Starting 3/2
• Week 4: Starting 3/9

After 3/9/23 all four weeks will be available.

Week 1:
You will identify the skills you already have and which ones you need to learn. Review job descriptions, and from the list of our skills, we will identify if we have the skill, if we need to learn it, or if we already have it. You can use AlgoExpert and Educative for the skills you need to learn, which are included in the student developer pack.

Week 2:
Building your professional assets: your resume, LinkedIn profile, GitHub profile, portfolio and cover letter. We’ll look at examples of successful professional assets and show you how you can leverage our pack partner, Visme’s templates to make a visually compelling CV.

Week 3:
How and where to search and apply for job openings including best practices on identifying companies, how to search for job vacancies and preparing for selection processes. Use our pack partner DailyBot to organize and track your search.

Week 4
How to prepare for interviews including knowing what the different types of interviews you may encounter, how to prepare answers for common questions and what kinds of skills to gain to best approach the technical interview process. For testing your technical interviewing skills complete the Interview Prep Course on Interview Cake using their Student Developer Pack offer.

Starting the Career Readiness Experience!

The Career Readiness Experience is part of the Student Developer Pack. Not a member yet? It’s available for all verified students ages 13+, and anywhere in the world where GitHub is available. Join today using your school-issued email, student ID or other proof of academic enrollment. Becoming a member allows you to learn how to use real-world development tools.

Join the pack today!