From the course: Career Clinic: Developer Insights

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Self-promotion

Self-promotion

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Self-promotion

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(bouncy music) - I promote myself in, honestly by doing content like this. I do content for lynda.com and then LinkedIn, and then also presenting at conferences and working in open source. There's something to be said about a do-acracy in which people are recognized for what they do because they're actually doing it because if I just did all my work in closed source stuff, you could see activity on GitHub and see that, oh this person's really busy, but they're not really contributing. I step into issue queues, I submit patches or pull requests, depending on the system. I create open source projects based on the work that I'm doing, or on something like a passion project. Like I'm really interested in doing this so I'll create a project and then I'll present about it. - What I would say is be comfortable in your skills. Like, hey, if you're really good at Java or you're really good at C#, or whatever, that's okay. I can be good, too, we can all be really good at it. That's not a bad…

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