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I'll see you guys in the course All right guys, let's get into self-taught development and Some of the problems that you guys are having a lot of the self-taught developers that I find is No plan just learn learn learn and everything just so just work out at the end with no plan and people just be at Your footsteps to give you a job with no Actual insight of industries or anything just learning HTML learning PHP learning whatever program language of choice And you'll just magically get a job There used to be a case at one point guys when there was not a lot of developers not a lot of coding Infrastructure to have to worry about but nowadays companies have software and Platforms and all that stuff to protect so they just can't hire Joe Joe bro self-developer Who have a HTML certification offline from this? No name college or no name school. They have to vet you out So you have to have a necessary not only education, but other factors we're gonna talk about in this video So let me get you guys started first if you haven't already go ahead and comment below I like to start a conversation each video as far as just what you're struggling with as a self-taught developer We're gonna go to checklists on what you need But I want to give insights on some of the stuff that either help you or what you're struggling with so go ahead and Let's start a conversation in the comment section so that you guys can tell me your struggles or what help you as a self-taught developer I'm in below That being said guys number one problem again is the plan I find that a lot of self-taught developers go too deep into the learning without necessarily getting to the practical world of application development when I say the practical world I'm not talking about trying to get a Job at Google or some of the fame companies are over in Silicon Valley I'm talking about the standard development job at a professional services company or hospital transportation banking just any general Operation that you have at any city of the top 200 Those are the type of jobs that you need to be aiming for as a self-taught developer If you are just that guy or girl as a self-taught developer, you got that skill set You're probably not watching this video You're probably working at Google because you just got that knowledge of skills. You've been doing it forever It comes easy. You just been doing it and people You found a niche that's gonna allow you to actually expand as a self-taught developer But you're struggling guys number one on that checklist. You have to learn domain specific knowledge of the industry in your local area I talk about this in my seven-step guide how to get started links are below It's free guys go ahead and sign up for it. I can't tell you how many times I have people who taking courses on Programming language of choice whatever that the self-taught they have more knowledge than me as a developer But they can't find a job at the life of them and they find out very quickly. It's not just a job that you actually Get but well, it's not only the programming language that you learn is how you apply it How to navigate a customer tech stack with tech stacks you should learn What companies use this in the industry with their expectations all of that stuff guys I can't cover in this video We do cover in my seven-step guide and if you already have my seven-step guide we also talk about that in our Courses below in the description box as well. Just go pick up that web development course 30 days get you what you need to Yeah, that's a plug go grab the course and it's gonna help you guys out But at the end of the day, I find that a lot of you guys are going to struggle Even after you learn a program language, which is scary by the way I kind of hate it for you. Hopefully you don't get into a situation where you don't do this over years and never Apply for a job and find out that hey, you got to go back in either Taking a different approach learn stuff different. I Help you prevent that guys. I don't want you guys to get If you work at the right program position yourself accordingly In a year, you should be a software development job Maybe a junior development job if you interview right you can get even better than that But I'm just saying guys if you put position yourself Accordingly you go into the interview the right way as a self-talk developer with zero experience as a developer But maybe you have other experience in other areas, but you know different industries You know how to apply that what you learn in the industry to 10x their employees for labor purposes Do you have software to make sure they make less mistakes? Have that industry knowledge to know where the technology needs to be implemented Those are the skills that nobody's on YouTube talking about but it's gonna help you guys tremendously To solve problems for the client guys and that's the key thing solve problem for the client or the company that you're working for And that's the name of the game when it comes to development I don't care if you go to a bootcamp or college or self-talk route If you're not solving problems, you're not gonna have that software development job long Or you may even I even get a chance to as an aspiring developer because your resume your portfolio your interview Don't reflect that you understand that concept and that's what's gonna get you a foot in the door as a self-talk developer So let's go over the checklist learn Not only the technical knowledge, but the industry knowledge number two you got to know how to do a good interview guys Really good interview number three. What do you learn? What do you know how to get interviews the proper proper jobs and all that stuff? Seven-step guide that's gonna be another one guy. There's nothing in there to your checklist number two. All right number four Number four know where to find the work. That's where we talk about the local job market research Professional network and all that good stuff guys again. I can't cover all that in the video But we also talk about that and seven-step guys guys as well. Number five The tools that you use as a developer. This is the area that a lot of you guys probably already covered you use tools like your code editor visual studio code Google Series of application or Microsoft Office suite whatever productivity software you use for Word Excel all that good stuff GitHub all of repository code source whatever a lot of clients that you have gonna dictate what you use because you use what they use But you know again, that's one of the tools that you're gonna use Visual studio code got a lot of tools embedded into it that I'm coming to FTP Terminal server all that good stuff like that. So a lot of good stuff there Last but not least just take action guys Take the necessary actions to get started man That's the last thing on your checklist seven things that you need to check off on your checklist guys We talk about these in details in my seven step guide And if you already had our seven step guide, you can actually start with our web development course That's gonna help you guys get that job you want as a self-taught developer and put you in a position to win So if you haven't already like subscribe to the content go ahead and share your story below guys What are you struggling with what do you need help with and what have you done correctly to get to this point? Go ahead and share in the comment section like subscribe to the content. 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