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Three Ways Coding Kickstarts Your Career

06/16/2013

Whether it’s moving up in your job or getting a new one entirely, there’s always a way to put code to work for you. Here are three ways users have applied their new skillset to take them where they want to go.

1. Find a new job

Liz was laid off from her administrative position this past November, and at 55 — without a college degree — she needed a way to make her resume stand a chance. Key web coding skills such as JavaScript, jQuery, Ruby, HTML/CSS, and Python helped shoot her to the head of the queue. What else? "My daily hard work on Codecademy gave me a feeling of competence, which helped me to be confident and knowledgeable in my interviews."

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2. Land a promotion

Tim’s office at the University of York uses Google Forms to automate housing transfer requests from thousands of students. After a few lessons he used JavaScript to write a Google Apps Script that sends a confirmation email as well, and that project slowly grew into building an entire dashboard to manage the transfer process from start to finish. The result? A nice promotion to the Data Analysis team, and a big boost of confidence.

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3. Become a developer

While working in the music industry, Jennifer started dabbling in web development and noticed that the hours seemed to pass quicker than before. She decided to move from a full-time position in music to working as an intern and studying in the evenings — but, she says, "this really accelerated my learning. During the day, I continued to improve my HTML and CSS skills while I worked on the Codecademy JavaScript and jQuery coursework in the evenings." Slowly but surely she became a full-time staff developer and now works at a SaaS startup.

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