Jess Feldman
Updated March 17, 2025
Are cybersecurity bootcamps worth it? For those seeking to enter this growing and essential field, the answer is a resounding yes! Reputable cybersecurity bootcamps offer immersive training that can equip career changers with the skills, certifications, career support, and experience they need to land entry-level or mid-level cyber and IT roles, even in a competitive job market. Find out the ...
Jess Feldman
Updated April 02, 2024
As AI rapidly evolves, DigitalCrafts has created two artificial intelligence certificate programs with experienced professionals at the helm to help learners upskill. We caught up with Mohammad Azam, a Lead Instructor at DigitalCrafts with over seven years of experience training bootcampers in in-demand skills like software development, AI, and machine learning. Mohammad sheds light on how he...
Jess Feldman
Updated January 17, 2024
As artificial intelligence technology becomes more ubiquitous in a variety of fields and industries, many are looking either to upskill or make a career pivot into AI. DigitalCrafts is set to launch two, new programs to help people gain an understanding of the fundamentals of AI. From programming with Python to improving your prompt engineering skills, find out what you can learn in the Artif...
Jess Feldman
Updated December 29, 2023
2023 was a bit of a rollercoaster year! We’re rounding up the most impactful news we saw about coding bootcamps in 2023. Follow along as we highlight 2023’s top trends and break down the year’s biggest coding bootcamp acquisition, fundraises, and initiatives. Plus, we’re sharing our predictions for 2024 — from tech hiring to AI skills to bootcamp tuition financing!
Course Report · 2023: The...
Jess Feldman
Updated December 12, 2023
Kennith Lowy grew up with the evolution of the internet and had experience in networking when he started looking for a way to upskill in cybersecurity. He chose the full-time Cybersecurity Bootcamp at DigitalCrafts and found that they support career transitioners no matter their background. Thanks to industry-informed instructors and committed career services support, Kennith passed the CompT...
Jess Feldman
Updated December 06, 2023
DigitalCrafts is intended for career path changers, so the Student Success Team is well-versed in how to help you find your footing in the topsy-turvy tech job search. Committed to offering clear, relevant, and personalized career services for students and alumni, we spoke with Student Success Advisors Anna Lee McTeer and Anna-Paige Simmons to find out what’s actually included in career servi...
Jess Feldman
Updated November 26, 2024
Skills training in the classroom and on the job continues to gain steam in November. With the rise in apprenticeships, there’s also continued momentum behind skills-based hiring. In honor of Veteran’s Day, we share a few initiatives helping military veterans get into tech careers. Plus, read recent news in the Online Program Manager (OPM) world and find out which 6 new bootcamps we added to t...
Jess Feldman
Updated June 29, 2023
Happy Summer! This month, we released our Best Online Bootcamps list for 2023, including the eight top-rated online schools. To celebrate Pride Month, we updated our post of bootcamp scholarships available for LGBTQ+ folks. And in honor of Juneteenth, we refreshed our blog post with the latest scholarships for people of color who want to attend a bootcamp. In the news this June, we saw a big ...
Liz Eggleston
Updated June 21, 2023
Curious about what it’s like to learn cyber security at a bootcamp? Overwhelmed by all the certifications? Do you need a college degree to get into cybersecurity? What are the job placement rates of cyber security bootcamps? Our expert panel of a CEO, a lead instructor, an alum, and a careers team leader answers these questions and more in this live Q&A with Springboard, Evolve Security A...
Jess Feldman
Updated June 14, 2023
After hitting a ceiling with self-teaching and an internship at a startup, Jordan joined DigitalCrafts to quickly break into a web development career path. Now Jordan is working with Booz Allen Hamilton through a paid apprenticeship program, and continues to pay it forward by mentoring new students at DigitalCrafts. Jordan shares his insights on what it took to balance life commitments like p...
Nat Davis
Updated April 22, 2025
In 2024, AI is unavoidable in the modern workforce as tools like ChatGPT, Google Bard, and Microsoft Bing are incorporated into workflows across major industries from healthcare to transportation, manufacturing, retail, finance, insurance, and food tech. Even if you don't work in tech (yet!) you can likely still benefit from an AI intro course. As AI evolves to ease your workload and make you...
Jess Feldman
Updated December 01, 2025
As a response to the COVID pandemic in 2020, most in-person bootcamps quickly transitioned to online or remote classrooms. In 2025, hybrid classrooms and immersive online learning continue to be popular, but in-person bootcamp options are available again. If you’ve been waiting for an in-person classroom to start your career change, then here are the 33 in-person coding bootcamps with campuse...
Jess Feldman
Updated March 20, 2023
After two years working as a nurse at a hospital, Andrea Tran was dealing with burnout and reassessing her career. She enrolled in the online Web Development Bootcamp at DigitalCrafts and dedicated her time to developing her skills to make a career path pivot into software engineering. Now Andrea, a Junior Software Engineer at Solstice, a green tech startup, shares how the technical foundatio...
Jess Feldman
Updated January 07, 2026
Is your 2026 New Year’s resolution to make a career change into tech? You already know that a coding bootcamp can help you get there – 79% of bootcamp grads get jobs in tech, and the average alum sees a 56% salary lift. The best way to stay on track is to break down your goal into smaller milestones – get started with our 5-step checklist and enroll at one of the full-time, part-time, in-pers...
Jess Feldman
Updated November 18, 2022
After a few years of working in fashion merchandising, Liz Kim realized she wasn’t feeling fulfilled by her career. After seeing her friends launch tech careers after attending bootcamps, Liz chose the online Cybersecurity bootcamp at DigitalCrafts because she appreciated the live teaching style. Now a SOC Associate for a cybersecurity consulting company and a Cybersecurity Teaching Assistant...
Jess Feldman
Updated February 19, 2025
With their hard-working determination and unique ability to clarify difficult material, teachers have long been an asset to their teams. But with low teacher salaries and long hours on the job, many educators have begun to reconsider their career choice. According to LinkedIn, the number of teachers on the site who left for a new career increased by 62% in 2021! The grit that most teachers sh...
Jess Feldman
Updated August 10, 2022
Many 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 create a curriculum focused on current data analyt...
Liz Eggleston
Updated July 06, 2022
Nick Kulway spent four years in a professional kitchen while being mentored by a chef, and he applied that same work ethic while learning in the Part-Time Bootcamp at DigitalCrafts. After graduating in February 2022, Nick got a job as a Junior Software Developer at Amesite. Find out how expectations met reality for Nick, whether he needed a college degree to succeed at a bootcamp, what surpri...
Liz Eggleston
Updated July 13, 2023
Learn what these five bootcampers wish they had known before they went to a bootcamp – how expectations met reality, how they actually got their first jobs, what surprised them about the teaching style, and whether the experience at Coding Temple, General Assembly, Sabio, DigitalCrafts, and Springboard was worth it to these graduates.
Meet Our Panel of Bootcamp Alumni:
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Jess Feldman
Updated March 01, 2022
Cybersecurity is one of the fastest-growing fields in tech, with the field projected to grow by 33% during this decade. To help fill a large skills gap, DigitalCrafts has launched an online Cybersecurity Bootcamp. Gareth Marchant, Cybersecurity Expert and Curriculum Creator at DigitalCrafts, explains how the bootcamp’s curriculum and labs are giving DigitalCrafts students the hands-on practic...