Doing Your Homework
Watch the video to have these questions answered:
- How to tell if you're in a good location?
- How much money do you NEED to live?
- How many hours a week can you study?
M=MONEY
Entry level QA makes $40-$50K
QA Test Automation makes $50-$65K
Dev's make $50-$65K
Factors:
- The better you can code AND the better your people skills = the more money you can make.
- No one hires purely manual testers anymore. You need to know how to code at least a little.
T=TIME
You MUST study 21 hours per week. QA's typically take 4 months to get hired and Dev's around 6 months.
- If you study 30+ hours a week you can cut these times by one third.
- I have coached people who were hired in 2 months.
the more you study = quicker you will be hired.
L=LOCATION
Relocate if you are not in a good area.
QA's
- Go to dice.com and in job title search put QA and your city in location (or closest metro city you can commute to).
- If there are less than 40 jobs returned by the search, it will be very challenging and it will take much longer than 4 months to land your first job. I would recommend relocating.
- If there are 40+ jobs you should be able to land a job in a reasonable amount of time but you will need to have above average networking skills.
- If there are 100+ jobs that is what I like to see. You should have no problem landing your first job in a reasonable amount of time.
Dev's
- Go to dice.com and in job title search put Dev and put your city in location (or closest metro city you can commute to).
- If there are less than 100 Dev jobs returned by the search, it will be very challenging and it will take much longer than 6 months to land your first job. I would recommend relocating.
- If there are 100-300 jobs you should be able to land a job in a reasonable amount of time you will need to have above average networking skills.
- If there are 300-800 jobs that is what I like to see. You should have no problem landing your first job in a reasonable amount of time.
- Some areas have well over 1,000 jobs like: Los Angeles, Denver & DC. It will be much easier to land a job there. This is a gold mine area.