Services

A default to weekly guidance is a fantastic way to maximize the value of your efforts. 

Career guidance is the most common way to make use of our time, but there's others.

Career

Fresh out of studies or a bootcamp, and looking for a software job?
Finished the tutorials, and now want to build something?
Switching careers from other fields?

Ideal fit. The process involves a few stages:

1. identifying current skills, goals, and setting a realistic roadmap

2. getting you up to date with fundamentals, and relevance to industry

3. prototyping a couple projects for your portfolio and confidence

4. optimizing portfolio and resume for review by an employer

5. reaching the right employers with a strategy that works for you

6. interview preparation: from technical to interpersonal

7. post-hire support: navigating industry teams and tools

We may skip some of the steps depending on what's best for you. Each step is not straight from a manual: each person has different circumstances and ways of learning, which will be accounted for. A step may take between 1 and 5 sessions: it depends on your time commitment, effort, and current skill level.

Remember that finding a good job is not a sprint: if you try to cram everything in a couple days or a week, you'll most likely end up exhausted, frustrated, and without a job. Incremental progress is, in my opinion, the only sensible way to approach the task.

Projects

Starting a tech project and not sure where to get started?
Got stuck somewhere along the way?
Need to structure your efforts and be kept accountable for progress?

Perfect fit. Week by week, we:

• set realistic milestones, adapted to your pace and schedule

• define the technologies needed to continue, and where to learn about them

• analyze last week's progress to find areas of improvement

• tackle anything else that might come up, via sessions or by text

If you need more hands-on help, e.g. if a team member is unavailable or you have a deadline, you can of course still make use of the extra 60€/hr sessions.

School/University

The university is not providing enough professor office hours?
The lecturers are not very clear?
Need extra help in learning or understanding an assignment?

Good fit. Week by week, we:

• go over any questions you might have

• set exercises to work up to certain concepts

• determine ways for you to more effectively teach yourself, or communicate with teachers

I will never do an assignment for you, but when ethical to do so I will guide you through what might be missing. My aim will always be that you should be able to succeed in this task on your own if you encountered it again in the future.

Depending on your course of study, e.g. you're learning about quantum computing or esoteric cryptography, I might not understand the topics myself. That doesn't mean I can't help, but depending on what it is you'd need help with, it can happen that I don't provide the right value. For this purpose I offer the free 15 minute trial, and if after a full session either of us feels I don't provide much value, you get your money back for that session.

One-off sessions

I am available for one-time help. This can be for a single step in the career process outlined above, part of the other services, or something else entirely. But in the last case, please drop me an email (see below) before scheduling.