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Minimum Job Requirements in Web Development:

Getting your very first job in development or programming is very difficult. I know it was for me. And in today's content, I wanted to share with you a small tip to get you your first job faster.

And it's something that I did wrong when I was starting out. And hopefully, you don't do this same mistake.

It's the fact that the minimum job requirements required to apply for a job aren't as crazy as they seem when you see in the job applications. And what does this mean?

Well, when we're looking at job applications online, we see things for junior developer roles where you need five years of experience, or you might need to know 10 different libraries or languages. And this is just insane. It's way too much. And I wanted to share with you the fact that this simply isn't realistic. And the minimum job requirements required to apply for a job are much lower than they actually are listed.

So if you are a developer or a programmer and you're starting out and looking for a job, it's very likely that you might already be ready to apply. And let me tell you the reason for this!

“If you understand your fundamentals, and you know how to use your language, then that is usually 90% of what is required when you're applying for junior roles.”

And let me give you some background about my story and how I learned this the hard way!

Because for me, it took me 10 years before I applied for my very first job. And I know that sounds crazy, and it is a little bit crazy. But there's a reason for this madness. And it's because I felt that I never was good enough. And the reason I thought I was not good enough is that the job applications online, simply require too much from what was actually required to be able to apply for jobs.

So then after that, I started doing more tutorials, I learned all the things that I needed to for different languages and libraries, I started doing more courses, and I got stuck into what is commonly referred to as tutorial hell. And I was stuck in there for a long time. And for this long period, I simply never applied for any jobs, because technology always changes. And they'll always be new libraries and languages out there. So as soon as I finished learning something, there was a new thing out there such as React or Angular, or Vu.

And I kept learning more and more and more, but still never applied.

And this is the biggest mistake I made. Because I could have applied 10 years sooner, I think the very first thing that you need to know is your fundamentals.

But as soon as you know those, as soon as you understand those, you should be applying for jobs. Because as soon as I went to apply for jobs, after learning all those, I could have got one.

And what happened to me was push came to shove, I was working in it, and I had to leave my previous job. And this forced me to apply for jobs. And I decided might be a good time to do some web jobs now. So I put in my applications. And I found all these jobs with huge requirements that were ridiculous almost. And when I sat down to do them in-person interviews with the actual company themselves, they never actually needed all those job requirements. They were simply there to maybe fill out a candidate to see if they might have those.

But a lot of the time they only needed a single job requirement. And I know that when I went into a job application that required me to understand Angular and zoo and React Native and WordPress and all of this stuff. But that's not actually what they were looking for.

They were looking for someone who just understood WordPress, and as long as you know your HTML and your CSS and your JavaScript, that's all they were really looking for. And this sort of blew my mind because, for the longest time, I never applied for jobs because I thought that they needed every single one of those requirements.

And this was the mistake that I made for so long. And even after I applied for so many positions, and tried out so many different roles. What I found out was that even if you do know your fundamentals, and you have to work with some technology, it's not actually as scary as it sounds, because when you join a company, usually they have a team behind you. And this means that for the very first three months, you don't have to suddenly be thrown into the Fire, when you actually have time to settle in, to learn to understand how the framework of the library you will be using works in the actual business itself, you'll have a team behind you, that'll help you out if you have questions along the way.

And you'll have a mentor or someone who can supervise you. So that if you do have any questions that you're unable to do, you can always escalate them up to someone else. And this means that a lot of those jobs that are essentially feeling like they're out of our reach are actually within our reach and worth applying immediately.

So if there's a job that you've been looking for, if there is a company that you want to apply for, and you're a junior developer, or you're learning your programming, and you understand your fundamentals, I definitely urge you to start applying immediately.

And who knows, you might get the job. But even if you don't, the experience of what you learn along the way will help you inevitably into finding your next job at some stage. I know it did for me. And if you're looking to learn your foundations, Brad traverse, has you covered.

 

And their lots of resources available online as well. There are things like Free Code Camp. And if you haven't heard of that before, it's a place that essentially does what is similar to a boot camp. And Boot Camps are my favorite thing because they get you up and running with your foundations really quickly. But sometimes they're expensive. Free Code Camp is very similar to that. They take you through the foundations of whatever language you're trying to learn.

So for example, if you're trying to learn HTML, CSS, or JavaScript, they take you through every single stage from learning how to write your very first tag to do classes and tests and making sure that you're following the proper best practice standards.

So when you finish the entire course, you even get a certificate to show that you know, the content. And this is really cool because you'll be able to put this on your next job application. And you can show that you've completed your fundamentals at Free Code Camp. If I saw this on a resume, then I definitely would take the candidate a lot more seriously because I know they've put in the hard work to be able to earn that and they've done it on their own. And I think this will definitely help people get jobs especially since the minimum job requirements aren't as difficult as they are made out to be.

Anyway, I hope it helps you apply for your very first job.