🇬🇧 How to Present Yourself as a Senior Developer in Interviews
Summary:
In this video, I share strategies on how to present yourself as a senior candidate during interviews, even if you’re at a junior level. I emphasize the importance of structuring your success stories and tailoring them to different audiences, such as HR, technical interviewers, and general managers. I also suggest that you can count your study time towards your experience, allowing you to claim more years in the field. My key advice is to write down your achievements and prepare variations of your stories for different interviewers. If you want more tips, just let me know!
Transcript:
0:00: Hey, how to sound senior in an interview, even if you’re junior. Okay, so I love this. Yes, I love this.
0:09: And this is, uh, for you, uh, my body that you are beginning, and then you are, you have awesome skills, you have a great experience, you are completing a great experience.
0:19: But, you know what? And you know, this is a reality, is that the, the companies, software factories, they’re hiring, uh, seniors, senior roles.
0:28: But how you are going to compete, my friend? So the way to compete is the following. You have to be very smart here.
0:36: You have to sound like a senior. And how a senior sounds. A senior sounds like the following. They have a structure way in order to tell a story.
0:49: What kind of story? In this case, they’re victories. They have a lot of victories. So they sing their victories. This thing, okay, I’ve worked on this similar project and I’ve done the following and this brought the following consequences.
1:05: Boom, and you had the following results. That’s how you have to do it. I know you may have worked like a two or three projects, but no worries, that’s enough in order to tell a very good story, okay?
1:17: So the first thing that you have to do is write down here in your notes, doing the notes because that makes all your mind to take quiet, take it easy, and then you’re gonna put here your notes, it’s gonna be very easy to remember.
1:31: And put here your story, your story, how awesome you did in a project, what participation you had in the project, what changes you had, and how you did it.
1:43: You have a great victory, I’m pretty sure, 100%, but you have to write it down, write it down, and once you write it down, it could be like three, four pages, five pages.
1:54: Okay, and now do the following. Two with timeframes of one minute, 30 seconds, 15 seconds. Why is that important? That is very important because when you talk and then you have just a few seconds to talk, okay, which one do you use, which version?
2:12: The shortest version, the 15 seconds version, that’s it. And now, that’s a little bit different because when you talk to an HR interviewer and then you talk to a technical interviewer and then you talk to a general manager interviewer, that’s different audience.
2:29: So your brain, now that you know your brain, the same that you have written down, now you have to do variations, variations to talk to the HR, variations to talk to the technical or interviewer, and variations to talk to the general manager, because the language that you use with a technical interviewer
2:48: , I mean, you’re going to be saying, okay, that was great. HTML, HTML, I’ve been using, I’ve been using a React with a following component and so on and so on.
2:58: So the general manager will not understand HR, we say, okay, you know that already, but I don’t know what you’re talking about, right?
3:05: So you have to be very smart in regards to that, so that’s why you have to have variations and when you have that, you are a senior, okay, you are a senior, you know your stuff.
3:18: Okay, HR will ask you at the beginning, how many years of experience do you have? And this is very, you have to, very smart answer, you have to say, some the experience that you have started working, you have started also studying.
3:37: Like, okay, I studied, for instance, with React like five years ago, okay, I have five years of experience because I’ve been building some boxes of projects, but you’re not gonna say that, you know?
3:48: But you have that five years, you know, completely that you started studying. It doesn’t matter if you apply to a job a one-year later, but that year counts sums, okay?
4:02: So you have five years, you’re applying for a senior job, enough senior, more years, but then you could say something very smart, okay.
4:13: I have in the software development industry eight years, if you have a study in an institute that goes three years, three years plus five years, eight years, eight years experience.
4:24: Oh, there you go. And then you start pitching your stories. You see? Okay, with your structure stories with the right audience, then you’re going to sound not like a junior.
4:37: You’re going to sound like a senior and not a mid developer, a senior. So, and this is what the HR, the technical interviewer and the general manager wants to hear, wants to listen.
4:47: Okay, And that is going to be music for them and when they start listening that it will say, okay, let’s hire Luis Let’s hire Maria.
4:56: Let’s hire Carlos. He is the one. Let’s stop the chopper us. Let’s do it right now. Let’s hire him. Let’s hire her.
5:03: I hope you like this. If you want more, then just let me know.
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