Thanks for the honest views! Do you know how I can get started in this field? I have a bit of a unique path - I have a degree in engineering but just 1 year of experience in IT before I moved to the digital marketing space as a copywriter first and now I switched once again to digital PR. The reason I want to explore developer advocacy is because I think it's the perfect confluence of all my skills, but I don't know where to begin now that it has been 4 years since I left the software space. I'd appreciate any tips you have for me. TIA!
I got kind of lucky since I applied for software engineering position and just got placed into dev advocacy. But you can always apply for it and learn on the job. I find the engineering part of the interview process is a bit easier than a traditional software engineer role, but your business / communication / public speaking skills need to be a lot higher than a traditional software engineer role.
Great video: thank you! I wonder if another 'con' is being able to maintain a work-life balance. By that I mean, excluding travel, creating content is extremely time intensive: so how does one stick to a reasonable # of hours per week? (e.g. 40-ish)... I have done many presentations for my local user group, and a few conferences, and the time investment is ridiculous.
That's very true! I guess a highlight of content creation is kind of the flexibility of doing it at any time, but tough to meet deadlines since sometimes it's hard to predict how long content creation will take you. Another interesting take is that usually dev advocates which have a big following (TH-cam / Twitter / GitHub) I've seen get jobs more easily than other with smaller followings.
Could you share how you landed as Developer Advocate, What preparation you did and necessary skills for the role in a meeting. Aspiration has just been high after seeing perks. Hoping you help by sharing your exp.
Hello Horea i supose that you are from Romania or your parents are from romania. So may be you are born in USA. But I am not sure of that. I am an old man from romania and I hope that you speak the romanian language, If yes plese give me an anouncement here.Thank you before. With many many respects. Fekete Alexandru from romania oradea city.
@@horeaporutiu Mulţumesc pentru răspunsul rapid şi promp. Mă bucur pentru că am dat de un concetăţean peste ocean şi pe deasupra în ţara tuturor posibilităţilor. Deci concret caut pe cineva care mi-ar putea explica mai pe îndelete şi puţin pe nivelul meu de înţelegere blockchainul dar puţin mai în profunzime sau mai precis în cât se poate de în profunzime dar nu pe engleză ci dacă se poate în l. română cu un limbaj quasi profesional. Adevărul este că eu bănuiesc nici in engleză nu prea se găseşte un asemenea tutorial dar nici pe o altă limbă vorbită pe terra.Iar în ceea ce priveste noţiunea de evanghelist cel puţin în partea acesta a lumii are poate o altă semnificaţie şi anume de context religios, deoarece în noul testament se găsesc cele 4 evanghelii sinoptice. Deci te rodg să reflectezi asupra celor ce ţi-m scris acum şi poate va ieşi ceva bun şi ceva util pentru toată lumea nu numai pentru mine . Cu salutări prieteneşti şi frăţeşti si cu deosebită stimă .Fekete Alexandru din oradea.
Thanks for the honest views! Do you know how I can get started in this field?
I have a bit of a unique path - I have a degree in engineering but just 1 year of experience in IT before I moved to the digital marketing space as a copywriter first and now I switched once again to digital PR.
The reason I want to explore developer advocacy is because I think it's the perfect confluence of all my skills, but I don't know where to begin now that it has been 4 years since I left the software space.
I'd appreciate any tips you have for me. TIA!
I got kind of lucky since I applied for software engineering position and just got placed into dev advocacy. But you can always apply for it and learn on the job. I find the engineering part of the interview process is a bit easier than a traditional software engineer role, but your business / communication / public speaking skills need to be a lot higher than a traditional software engineer role.
Great video this is sounds like my ideal role
Glad you enjoyed the video, thanks for commenting :)
Great video: thank you! I wonder if another 'con' is being able to maintain a work-life balance. By that I mean, excluding travel, creating content is extremely time intensive: so how does one stick to a reasonable # of hours per week? (e.g. 40-ish)... I have done many presentations for my local user group, and a few conferences, and the time investment is ridiculous.
That's very true!
I guess a highlight of content creation is kind of the flexibility of doing it at any time, but tough to meet deadlines since sometimes it's hard to predict how long content creation will take you.
Another interesting take is that usually dev advocates which have a big following (TH-cam / Twitter / GitHub) I've seen get jobs more easily than other with smaller followings.
Could you share how you landed as Developer Advocate, What preparation you did and necessary skills for the role in a meeting. Aspiration has just been high after seeing perks. Hoping you help by sharing your exp.
Yes I’m planning on making a video for that. Thanks for your feedback!
so comprehensive dear awesome
Thank you so much 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
Hello Horea i supose that you are from Romania or your parents are from romania. So may be you are born in USA. But I am not sure of that. I am an old man from romania and I hope that you speak the romanian language, If yes plese give me an anouncement here.Thank you before. With many many respects. Fekete Alexandru from romania oradea city.
Da sunt din Romania, din Cluj!
@@horeaporutiu Mulţumesc pentru răspunsul rapid şi promp. Mă bucur pentru că am dat de un concetăţean peste ocean şi pe deasupra în ţara tuturor posibilităţilor. Deci concret caut pe cineva care mi-ar putea explica mai pe îndelete şi puţin pe nivelul meu de înţelegere blockchainul dar puţin mai în profunzime sau mai precis în cât se poate de în profunzime dar nu pe engleză ci dacă se poate în l. română cu un limbaj quasi profesional. Adevărul este că eu bănuiesc nici in engleză nu prea se găseşte un asemenea tutorial dar nici pe o altă limbă vorbită pe terra.Iar în ceea ce priveste noţiunea de evanghelist cel puţin în partea acesta a lumii are poate o altă semnificaţie şi anume de context religios, deoarece în noul testament se găsesc cele 4 evanghelii sinoptice. Deci te rodg să reflectezi asupra celor ce ţi-m scris acum şi poate va ieşi ceva bun şi ceva util pentru toată lumea nu numai pentru mine . Cu salutări prieteneşti şi frăţeşti si cu deosebită stimă .Fekete Alexandru din oradea.
I could write something for you in English that you could translate with Google Translate
@@JulianSnow Of corse I wait for your text in english. P.S. I speak a little enghish so 30 percent .With many regards Alexandru from oradea.