A small presentation I did for students in IT about how to get out of the crowd. There are many jobs out there, but also many developers, so this presentation was to give them some insight on how to differentiate themselves from others students who will graduate at the same time, but also, from other in the industry.

1. get out of the crowd
Frédéric Harper
Herzing College – Montréal, Canada - 2014-04-24
Sr. Technical Evangelist @ Mozilla
@fharper
http://outofcomfortzone.net

2. today’s goals

3. insights on how to get out of the crowd

4. answer all your questions

5. talk (a little) about my career

6. first, my story

7. analyst programmer in a small company

8. software architect in a startup

9. my own boss

10. Technical Evangelist at Microsoft

11. Sr. Technical Evangelist at Mozilla

12. my actual job
ü Flexible schedule
ü Work at home
ü Good salary
ü Travel all around the world
ü Great network
ü Interesting, and creative responsabilities
ü No dress code
ü Fine line between passion, and working
ü …

13. the industry is
looking for you

14. creative

15. Sherlock Holmes

16. learning

17. team player

18. challenges

19. wants to work

20. the problem

21. you are not alone

22. getting a new gig

23. a sumo fight

24. get out of
the crowd

25. define your goal

26. create something

27. Open Source projects

28. StackOverflow

29. play with new technologies

30. speak at & assist to conferences

31. hackathons & contests

32. network

33. http://yuldev.ca

34. if you aren’t on Google…

35. start a blog

36. be on social media

37. LinkedIn

38. personal branding

39. http://book.outofcomfortzone.net

40. at the end…

41. many possibilities

42. think big

43. be authentic

44. To infinity, and beyond…

45. Creative Commons images
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46. Frédéric Harper
fharper@oocz.net
@fharper
http://outofcomfortzone.net