{"id":873,"date":"2024-10-21T16:23:47","date_gmt":"2024-10-21T06:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.software-testing.com.au\/blog\/?p=873"},"modified":"2024-10-21T16:25:52","modified_gmt":"2024-10-21T06:25:52","slug":"873","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.software-testing.com.au\/blog\/2024\/10\/21\/873\/","title":{"rendered":"Coaching, mentoring and job search support for software testers and QA\/QE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>An update:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s a tough job market right now, so I&#8217;m offering help with job hunting, resumes, CVs, career planning and mentoring. I&#8217;ve been working as a tester for some 30 years and in agile environments since around 2003, in a variety of hands-on and leadership roles. Send me a message either through this site or via LinkedIn and we can discusss your situation and how I might be able to assist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are a few ideas if you&#8217;re not sure how I might be able to help:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Job hunting<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Resume review and improvement<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Cover letter review and writing<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Networking strategies (this is pretty difficult post-Covid, honestly)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Company cultures (ie. Knowing what the job ad tells you, knowing about Australian companies and work styles)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Career planning<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Trends in testing (long-term, short term)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Where to focus\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Optionality \u2013 How to increase your career options while working<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Experience depth vs breadth<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Other things (eg. Managing your non-testing life to reduce career stress)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Skills<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Framing your current skills and impact<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Plans for uplifting skills\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>On the job<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Formal and informal study<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Specific skill coaching\/teaching\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Tools<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Test design skills<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Test strategy<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Contextual skills<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Knowledge<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Improving how we talk about testing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>General mentoring, check-ins, advice and support<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An update: It&#8217;s a tough job market right now, so I&#8217;m offering help with job hunting, resumes, CVs, career planning and mentoring. I&#8217;ve been working as a tester for some 30 years and in agile environments since around 2003, in a variety of hands-on and leadership roles. Send me a message either through this site [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.software-testing.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.software-testing.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.software-testing.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.software-testing.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.software-testing.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=873"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.software-testing.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":876,"href":"http:\/\/www.software-testing.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873\/revisions\/876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.software-testing.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.software-testing.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.software-testing.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}