Lessons Learned Recruiting and Managing Junior Developers for 10 Years

<p><b><strong>🎙 About the episode</strong></b></p><p>Jason has been recruiting and supporting Junior Developers for more than a decade! He joins us to share his inspiring story breaking into tech after sustaining a head injury, and what he’s learned about how to find success as a Junior without a degree along the way.</p><p><b><strong>🔗 Connect with Jason</strong></b></p><ul> <li><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/codemouse92/">👨🏻‍💼 LinkedIn</a></li> <li><a href="https://codemouse92.com/">🌐 Website</a></li> <li><a href="https://github.com/codemouse92">👩‍🚀 GitHub</a></li> <li><a href="https://twitter.com/codemouse92">🐦 Twitter</a></li> </ul><p><b><strong>⏰ Timestamps</strong></b></p><ul> <li>Introduction (0:00)</li> <li>How a head injury at 16 influenced Jason’s career path (01:27)</li> <li>Interns vs. juniors (05:07)</li> <li>Job titles matter, but not for the reasons you might think (08:04)</li> <li>Are there more juniors than junior jobs? (10:35)</li> <li>Why recruiters sometimes get it wrong and what that means for you, the candidate (11:38)</li> <li>The job description is not a list of hard requirements (15:44)</li> <li>How to improve your self-awareness (19:05)</li> <li>Coding vs. programming and why it matters (22:04)</li> <li>Justin’s favourite question to ask during interviews: What games do you play? (23:40)</li> <li>Are you born or made a programmer? (24:56)</li> <li>Tech is vast and has many career paths to offer (27:26)</li> </ul><p><b><strong>🧰 Resources mentioned</strong></b></p><ul> <li><a href="https://twitter.com/bookercodes">Tell Alex from Scrimba @bookercodes what you thought of the episode</a></li> <li><a href="https://dev.to/codemouse92">Read Jason’s fantastic advice on dev.to</a></li> </ul><p><b><strong>⭐️ Leave a Review</strong></b></p><p><br>If you enjoy this episode please <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-scrimba-podcast/id1537632252"><em>leave a 5 star review here</em></a> and let us know who you want to see on the next podcast.</p><p><br>You can also Tweet A