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      <h1 class="project-name">RESOURCES</h1>
      <h2 class="project-tagline">Professional Development Resources for Software Engineers</h2>
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<a id="5-minute-professional-development-ideas" class="anchor" href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cVKdH1CWShef0Et9qVQGk6g0ocgLgY3ouhIYCBpsz2s/edit?usp=sharing" aria-hidden="true"><span aria-hidden="true" class="octicon octicon-link">Use This Worksheet</span></a></h3>
<a id="5-minute-professional-development-ideas" class="anchor" href="http://clutchtalent.github.io/5-Minutes/" aria-hidden="true"><span aria-hidden="true" class="octicon octicon-link">+ Also see our 5-minute task list</span></a></h3>


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<a id="setup-your-online-profiles" class="anchor" href="#setup-your-online-profiles" aria-hidden="true"><span aria-hidden="true" class="octicon octicon-link"></span></a>Learn</h3>

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<li>Follow blogs by key contributors.</li>
<li>Find new trends: Google "alternatives to" for every language, framework and tool you use.</li>
<li>Sign up for a newsletter that is relevant to your work. Examples: --- <a href="http://javascriptweekly.com/">JavaScript Weekly</a></li>
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<a id="find--follow" class="anchor" href="#find--follow" aria-hidden="true"><span aria-hidden="true" class="octicon octicon-link"></span></a>Innovate at Work</h3>

<ul>
<li>Present and idea for how to make a process more efficient or cleaner.</li>
<li>Create a style guide.</li>
<li>Build a dashboard for a business team to allow them to collaborate better with engineering.</li>
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<a id="improve-your-online-presence" class="anchor" href="#improve-your-online-presence" aria-hidden="true"><span aria-hidden="true" class="octicon octicon-link"></span></a>Write</h3>

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<li>Create your own blog.</li>
<li>Offer to write for a blog with an established following.</li>
<li>Answer questions on <a href="http://stackoverflow.com/">Stack Overflow</a> or <a href="https://www.quora.com/">Quora</a> and then reblog onto your own blog.</li>
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<a id="improve-your-online-presence" class="anchor" href="#improve-your-online-presence" aria-hidden="true"><span aria-hidden="true" class="octicon octicon-link"></span></a>Speak, Teach, or Mentor</h3>

<ul>
<li>Give a talk or demo at work.</li>
<li>Offer to speak for your favorite local meetup or apply to present at a conference.</li>
<li>Mentor at a workshop, or find someone entering the field to mentor 1:1. Blog about your mentorship journey!</li>
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<a id="read" class="anchor" href="#read" aria-hidden="true"><span aria-hidden="true" class="octicon octicon-link"></span></a>Improve Your Interview Skills</h3>

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<li>Practice, practice, practice: algorithms, data structures, language-specific, problem solving. Work through the book <a href="https://www.careercup.com/book">Cracking the coding interview</a>
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<li>Practice verbal questions with a friend.</li>
<li>Try out engineering interview questions from popular companies on <a href="http://www.practice.geeksforgeeks.org/tags.php? "> GeeksforGeeks</a>.</li>
<li>Offer to be on your employer's interview team.</li>
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<a id="interview-prep" class="anchor" href="#interview-prep" aria-hidden="true"><span aria-hidden="true" class="octicon octicon-link"></span></a>Make Open Source Contributions</h3>

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<li>Find a group to collaborate with, or join an existing project.</li>
<li> Contribute to one of <a href="https://developers.google.com/open-source/projects?hl=en">Google's Open Source Projects</a>.</li>
<li> Apply for a <a href=" https://github.com/github/mentorships
">Github Open Source Mentorship</a>.</li>
<li> Find a first-time contributors project on <a href="https://twitter.com/yourfirstpr">Your First PR</a>.
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<a id="what-else-can-an-engineer-do-to-level-up-skills-in-just-5-minutes" class="anchor" href="#what-else-can-an-engineer-do-to-level-up-skills-in-just-5-minutes" aria-hidden="true"><span aria-hidden="true" class="octicon octicon-link"></span></a>Learn a New Language or Framework</h3>

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<li>Pick up a book.</li>
<li>Go through a tutorial.</li>
<li>Take a class.</li>
<li>Work on a personal project in a new language.</li>
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<a id="interview-prep" class="anchor" href="#interview-prep" aria-hidden="true"><span aria-hidden="true" class="octicon octicon-link"></span></a>Leadership Skill Development</h3>

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<li>Build hard skills: agile process, how to delegate work across teams, how to conduct performance evaluations, architecture, etc.</li>
<li>Build soft skills, including developing management philosophies. </li>
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<a id="interview-prep" class="anchor" href="#interview-prep" aria-hidden="true"><span aria-hidden="true" class="octicon octicon-link"></span></a>Expand Your Network</h3>

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<li>Find people at meetups, conferences and at work to talk with about their work and share ideas with.</li>
<li>Follow-up over LinkedIn and follow people you meet on Twitter.</li>
<li>Connect online, especially with small, local online communities.</li>
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<a id="interview-prep" class="anchor" href="#interview-prep" aria-hidden="true"><span aria-hidden="true" class="octicon octicon-link"></span></a>Build Your Online Profile</h3>

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<li>Check what comes up when you google your name, and make that a priority to improve.</li>
<li>Improve your LinkedIn profile to include projects, top skills, links to your online contributions and social profiles and a summary.</li>
<li>Even a few social media posts across Twitter, etc can improve your online image.</li>
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<a id="interview-prep" class="anchor" href="#interview-prep" aria-hidden="true"><span aria-hidden="true" class="octicon octicon-link"></span></a>Contact</h3>

Did you find this helpful? We'd love to hear from you. You can contact us through our website <a href="http://clutchtalent.com" target=blank>Clutch Talent</a> and chat with us on <a href="http://twitter.com/clutchtalent" target=blank>twitter</a>.

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