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SE Radio 245: John Sonmez on Marketing Yourself and Managing Your Career
Charles Anderson talks to John Sonmez, the author of Soft Skills—"the software developer's life manual." They start out discussing the book and what it covers, which is pretty much everything in a developer's life outside of code. The book contains seven sections; they discuss two of them: "Career" and "Marketing Yourself."
John discusses the value of specializing in your career without being overspecialized. He describes how to "hack the interview process" to either reduce the need for an interview or build a strong relationship before the interview.
He then discusses how software developers…
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