CareerOps With Jill Jubinski and Peter Burkholder

Oh no! You've been laid off. How can you bounce back? Jill Jubinski and Peter Burkholder help guide you through returning to the good fight of gainful employment.

Notes from 2016 DevOps Days DC session on DR for your career: http://e.devopsdaysdc.org/p/openspace-spades-A

Severance agreement timelines:
Employee Checklist: What to Do When Your Employer Offers You a Severance Agreement … Esp:
“If your employer has not given you a reasonable amount of time, or rushes your decision, this is a red flag…If you are being rushed, ask for more time [in writing]”

How to bounce back:
Let folks know - Mike Fiedler and Annie Hedgpeth had good examples on Twitter recently.

#cheffriends, I’m interested in working w/@Chef or #security in #DevOps #DevOpsSec remote or DFW. Would love your help!

Ok recruiters. I'm open to hearing from you now. Make it good, let's not waste each other's time.

Use all your networks

https://www.themuse.com/advice/help-me-find-a-job-emails-to-send-to-your-network

Check Outs
Jill

Newly obsessed with this site (and not just because I’m being interviewed for it in a month or so) https://usesthis.com. Its super interesting to read about how people do their day to day activities from all different industry/skill backgrounds

Peter

Infinite Jukebox: http://labs.echonest.com/Uploader/index.html
My Job Went to India (was renamed in the 2nd edition to “The Passionate Programmer”) (Chad Fowler, 2009)
Fox in Socks, Dr. Seuss:

Bridget

Jill’s epic Ignite at Monitorama
Curating the content you produce. Yes, I think everyone should set up their website like I do.
(see also http://www.devopsdays.org/events/2015-detroit/proposals/how-to-train-yourself/)

Matt

Arrested Westeros

Trevor

DOOM E1M1 Cover - DOOM is fun

Further Listening

Want to dig deeper into some of the things we discussed today?
Check out these past episodes:

Building Your Personal Brand
Career DevOps