What is the fastest technology to learn to get a job?

[kraken]

Hello guys,

Could you please advise on an interesting technology that could be learned fast (around 5 months)? Could be anything - a programming language, OS, whatever.
I majored in Computer Science. Needless to say - I learned only basic stuff there, nothing employable. I know some basic Java and C#.

I was a UX Designer for 5-6 months, but UX is so oversaturated that it's really hard to keep up with the privileged kids who took a $15k bootcamp. The only positions easily available are about dull pixel-pushing and not really UX (like it was in my case)

I'd appreciate any input!

Thank you.

 

[renderer]

You can't go wrong with a stack based on Java, Python, and JavaScript.

There's no perfect course, I've been downloading almost every course here and skimming them to determine which ones I could recommend for my brother whose about to go to CS for university, and most courses I just downloaded here are just as valuable as the other.

You just have to pick any one stack and course, learn enough to do CRUD and APIs, then build a project. Then ship it out, deploy to a popular cloud service. I would recommend AWS. For a developer, you just have to know EC2, Dynamo, and S3. You can learn networking, lambda, fargate and load balancing later.

As you studied CS, 5 months is wayyy more than enough to do these. Our interns learn enough to understand enough to know about AWS for work in 2 weeks.

If you want to stand out, build relevant projects to their business.

What are the top startups in your city? Look at companies and startups you want to work at, visit their website and read about their projects. Pick any of them then list what features those products do. Start making a basic clone of it, implementing one feature at a time. Then showcase it to their company during the interview or your cover letter or in your linkedin message, telling them that you're well experienced and the perfect fit for solving problems in their domain. The benefit of this is that even if they reject you, you still get to have a side project on your portfolio that solves an actual business problem, and that makes you a standout for other companies.

 

[StarLite]

 

[sovereignzak]

You can't go wrong with a stack based on Java, Python, and JavaScript.

There's no perfect course, I've been downloading almost every course here and skimming them to determine which ones I could recommend for my brother whose about to go to CS for university, and most courses I just downloaded here are just as valuable as the other.

You just have to pick any one stack and course, learn enough to do CRUD and APIs, then build a project. Then ship it out, deploy to a popular cloud service. I would recommend AWS. For a developer, you just have to know EC2, Dynamo, and S3. You can learn networking, lambda, fargate and load balancing later.

As you studied CS, 5 months is wayyy more than enough to do these. Our interns learn enough to understand enough to know about AWS for work in 2 weeks.

If you want to stand out, build relevant projects to their business.

What are the top startups in your city? Look at companies and startups you want to work at, visit their website and read about their projects. Pick any of them then list what features those products do. Start making a basic clone of it, implementing one feature at a time. Then showcase it to their company during the interview or your cover letter or in your linkedin message, telling them that you're well experienced and the perfect fit for solving problems in their domain. The benefit of this is that even if they reject you, you still get to have a side project on your portfolio that solves an actual business problem, and that makes you a standout for other companies.

wow just wow.

this is new. thx man.