CareerOps With Jill Jubinski and Peter Burkholder

Notes from 2016 DevOps Days DC session on DR for your career: http://e.devopsdaysdc.org/p/openspace-spades-A

Severance agreement timelines: Employee Checklist: What to Do When Your Employer Offers You a Severance Agreement … Esp: “If your employer has not given you a reasonable amount of time, or rushes your decision, this is a red flag…If you are being rushed, ask for more time [in writing]”

How to bounce back: Let folks know - Mike Fiedler and Annie Hedgpeth had good examples on Twitter recently.

#cheffriends, I’m interested in working w/@Chef or #security in #DevOps #DevOpsSec remote or DFW. Would love your help!

— Annie Hedgpeth (@anniehedgie) June 30, 2016

Ok recruiters. I'm open to hearing from you now. Make it good, let's not waste each other's time.

— Mike Fiedler, Code Gardener (@mikefiedler) June 6, 2016

Use all your networks

• https://www.themuse.com/advice/help-me-find-a-job-emails-to-send-to-your-network

Check Outs

Jill

• Newly obsessed with this site (and not just because I’m being interviewed for it in a month or so) https://usesthis.com. Its super interesting to read about how people do their day to day activities from all different industry/skill backgrounds

Peter

• Infinite Jukebox: http://labs.echonest.com/Uploader/index.html
• My Job Went to India (was renamed in the 2nd edition to “The Passionate Programmer”) (Chad Fowler, 2009)
• Fox in Socks, Dr. Seuss:

Bridget

• Jill’s epic Ignite at Monitorama
• Curating the content you produce. Yes, I think everyone should set up their website like I do. (see also http://www.devopsdays.org/events/2015-detroit/proposals/how-to-train-yourself/)

Matt

• Arrested Westeros

Trevor

• DOOM E1M1 Cover - DOOM is fun

Further Listening

Want to dig deeper into some of the things we discussed today? Check out these past episodes:

• Building Your Personal Brand
• Career DevOps