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Jess FeldmanUpdated on December 7, 2022Working at a startup as a mechanical engineer, Akinsola “Sola” Salami quickly learned he would rather be manipulating data to help drive business and product decisions. With University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies (UofT SCS) Boot Camps (offered in collaboration wit...Continue Reading →- Jess FeldmanUpdated on September 2, 2022Course Report · August 2022 Coding Bootcamp News Roundup This August, saw over $175M in fundraises in the coding bootcamp space! Republicans in the US shared what they would like to see in an expanded Pell Grant program, and an OPM giant, 2U, had so...Continue Reading →
- Jess FeldmanUpdated on August 31, 2022After battling addiction and homelessness, Bill was rebuilding his life when the pandemic blocked his career path. Armed with a hand-me-down computer, he explored intro tech courses and found a love for cybersecurity. Through Washington State’s Training Benefits program, Bill enrolled atContinue Reading →
- Jess FeldmanUpdated on August 31, 2022Jordy was working as a registered nurse in a NYC hospital before deciding to reskill with Coding Temple’s full-time online bootcamp. Jordy walks us through his capstone project, inkVue, a Python-based web application that helps users find the right tattoo artist for them. Jordy highlights what he loved abo...Continue Reading →
- Jess FeldmanUpdated on December 3, 2024A health scare led Zachary Anderson to reassess his life and make a career pivot. He didn’t have time to complete a four-year degree program, so the fast pace and industry-informed curriculum at Eleven Fifty Academy’s full-time, online cybersecurity bootcamp was perfect fo...Continue Reading →
- Jess FeldmanUpdated on August 24, 2022ACL Digital has partnered with Hackbright Academy and Devmountain to offer a Gender Diversity in Tech Scholarship! Rajat Sethi, VP of Engineering Services at ACL Digital shares how this full tuition scholarship will increase diversity on ACL Digital’s global engineering teams. Find out what ACL Digital e...Continue Reading →
- Jess FeldmanUpdated on August 24, 2022A classically trained painter, Jessica Roderick’s art career came to a halt when the pandemic struck in 2020. When she discovered product design, Jessica realized she could pivot her art career into a creative tech career. AtContinue Reading →
- Jess FeldmanUpdated on August 17, 2022Valerie, a graduate of Mate academy’s Web Development bootcamp wrote a Verified review of their bootcamp experience and won our latest sweepstakes competition! Over 1,200 tech bootcamp graduates wrote a Verified review for their school on ...Continue Reading →
- Jess FeldmanUpdated on August 15, 2022Tech Elevator and Niantic have partnered up to sponsor an upcoming coding bootcamp cohort and paid apprenticeship. This program sponsors 20 students from underrepresented communities to complete Tech Elevator’s bootcamp for free, and then go on to either theContinue Reading →
- Jess FeldmanUpdated on September 30, 2024Marion “Mell” Lessington III was working at a local bank in Atlanta, but in his 30s, he began second-guessing his career path. When the pandemic struck, Mell used it as an opportunity to reskill by enrolling in the remote Software Engineering Immersive bootcamp at General Assembly. Mell shares how General Assembly...Continue Reading →
- Jess FeldmanUpdated on August 10, 2022Alchemy is a live, online, immersive bootcamp that helps career changers make a successful pivot into software development. We spoke with Alchemy Co-Founder and Program Director, Megan Nelson, about the Alchemy admissions process. Learn what to expect, from the interview to the technical skills you n...Continue Reading →
- Jess FeldmanUpdated on August 10, 2022Many companies today are building teams to understand data and create data-driven strategies. The Data Analytics Bootcamp at DigitalCrafts was crafted with total beginners in mind to teach the technical skills needed to pursue a career path in Data. DigitalCrafts instructor Michael Costner has applied his decade of data industry experience to creat...Continue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on August 4, 2022Welcome to Ask a Career Coach, an advice-column where real bootcamp career coaches take a minute out of their busy days to answer a question from a Course Report reader. Today, Marlene Tang, the Alumni Director and Career Coach at Coding Temple, is answering a question about the second job after a bootcamp...Continue Reading →
- Jess FeldmanUpdated on August 3, 2022Prior experience used to be the greatest barrier to entry at Springboard. But the Springboard team recently launched Foundations courses to help incoming students with no previous tech knowledge get accepted into a SpringboardContinue Reading →
- Jess FeldmanUpdated on August 1, 2022Course Report · July 2022 Coding Bootcamp News Roundup This July, the coding bootcamp industry heated up with a $10M fundraise, an acquisition, and a $2B rumor. Drama about OPM regulation continued, and there’s still a lot of back-and-forth about whet...Continue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on July 28, 2022So, you’re a new product designer. What does it take to stand out in a crowded field and land your first job? Ashley Kays, Product Design instructor at Flatiron School, shares her insights on who thrives in theirContinue Reading →
- Jess FeldmanUpdated on July 20, 2022Robert Salas was a US Army vet with an MBA when the pandemic had him pivoting into tech. Thanks to Sabio’s Deferred Tuition plan, Rob was able to enroll in the online bootcamp to get a foundation in software engineering. After Sabio, Rob was accepted into the highly competitiveContinue Reading →
- Jess FeldmanUpdated on July 14, 2022Brian Zanayed was a mortgage lender when he realized the influence of emerging technology in the industry. He chose Coding Temple’s Self-Paced Bootcamp to level up his skills on his own time, and now he’s a Software Engineer at a robotics company! Brian shares his advice for juggling a full-time job with the self-paced bootcamp, how Coding Temple helped...Continue Reading →
- Jess FeldmanUpdated on September 30, 2024What is it actually like to be a Software Engineer at MongoDB? Codesmith alum and remote Software Engineer, Cris Newsome, gives us a behind-the-scenes look at types of projects and teams they work on at MongoDB. As a career changer in their 40s who copes with chronic illness, learn how Codesmith’s full-tui...Continue Reading →
- Jess FeldmanUpdated on February 9, 2023Andrew McGrath enrolled in Springboard’s Tech Sales Career Track to make a career change – Did the bootcamp curriculum and support live up to his expectations? Find out how Andrew made the self-paced bootcamp structure work for his schedu...Continue Reading →
