u/michaelnovati replied · · edited ★ FEATURED
Codesmith doesn't have a major "job searching portion". There is a week or two of lectures going over resume, job hunt strategies etc...
They walk you through writing your resume with worksheets and then during after Codesmith you have access to resume reviewers and career support engineers (all are former students who have jobs now).
There's a major focus on overcoming "imposter syndrome" because a key part to people's success is building self-confidence that you can do it and are just as good as any other engineer - and it's one of the reasons people can walk into these $120K job interviews and get by.
They also give very good advice on reaching out, like the "Codesmith double down" and such.
Codesmith very strongly tells people not to lie on their resumes, but we tend to see [this](https://www.reddit.com/r/codingbootcamp/comments/18cpq98/analysis_of_52_most_recent_codesmith_offers/)
As well as this recent video [published this week](https://youtu.be/MB0T7iEcyEY?si=aTEaaxHaaekkQxEi&t=2882) (at this specific time stamp):
>"the positions we all have listed are usually our OSP positions so we kind of list that like a software engineer position because that's like our fully like job experience so we want to so it's not a paid position but it's just we put our OSP on our LinkedIn usually"
I have lots of opinions on this strategy I won't share now because I share them often, but that's a neutral presentation of it.
It's a really well structured and consistent portion of the program and produces really consistent, solid resumes, and the advice and process work.