Hello World! Today we are going to discuss such an important theme as working as a programmer. How to understand: Am I good for this or not?
The first point is that a lot of people when they hear the term “IT”, think about coding. But this is not the only option you can choose. There are many positions for people who cannot code and prefer communication more than writing scripts for programs. For example, lead gen manager, talent acquisition specialist, sales manager, product manager, content manager, it-recruiter, etc.
From my point of view, recruitment, lead gen positions, and talent acquisition specialist are the best positions to begin your IT career with if you are a people person. Let's see, if you:
- You want to practice your skills of diplomacy
- You like to communicate with new people from different countries and different nationalities
- You like to spend time learning the details of the task to be professional in it
- You don’t like math and coding (but you will have to understand the technical base of the position you need to end up with )
If you fit all these - congratulations, all these positions fit you and of course don’t forget that each of them has its peculiarity.
I would like to speak more about recruiting as I'm a recruiter.
So, if you decide to begin your career as a recruiter you need to know what are you going to do:
- learn new ways of searching candidates (not just putting positions in Google)
- learn x-ray and boolean search to make full cycle of recruiting(from *intro to close the position)
- giving feedbacks (positive and negative)
- struggle with misunderstandings between you and candidates
- being diplomatic in any situation (remember, you are the face of the company)
It’s also good to begin as a recruiter (in case after recruiting you decide to start writing codes you already know the info about different program languages and which one will be better for you, which is more useful, easier\more difficult, as you will have your personal experience hiring people who work with these languages.
By the way, after working as a recruiter you will know how the hiring process works and which unpredictable questions you may be asked by employees. Apart from this, you know how to behave and what is good to say and do and what is not good.
But don’t think that being a recruiter is just to have a list of questions which you should ask the candidate-and that’s all. It doesn’t work like this. But we will discuss recruiting in my next article.
It's important to note that just because writing code may not suit some people, it doesn't mean they can't be the best at other information technologies. Many different events occur with software development that do not require direct coding.
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