u/Thinkinaboutu wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
I'm curious, from your experience, if you have a person who you're coaching, and they have unrelated work experience to CS(let's say they were a photographer or chef for two years) before attending a bootcamp like Codesmith, would you recommend them listing that experience on the
u/michaelnovati replied · ★ FEATURED
It depends on the experience and people have different points of view here even WITHIN FORMATION haha, it's very personal and depends on how your job hunt is going.
Like bootcamps have a fixed curriculum and templates for each step so they steer you towards one resume, one way of doing things. I would start with this approach/way of doing things as the first attempt.
Then if you aren't getting traction you can can start being more creative. For example, my brother got a job at Riot Games 10 years working on LoL - he was playing so much day in and day out and this was his dream job, so he wrote a cover letter describing him as a new "Champion" in the game with a cute character image and stuff and he got the job! A new grad engineer from Canada with with an analyst role at a Game thousands of miles away.
So if you have a passion and unique take on things, even if you are delivering Doordash to pay the bills! If you can reflect on your experience and how that might give you a superpower to solve problems at a relevant company better than people who don't have that experience, you should try to creatively leverage it for targeted companies.