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Leadership Planner with 12 Essential Leadership Competencies

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How To Increase Your Visibility As A Developer Via Your Personal Brand
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Which Type Of Career Planner Are You?

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Engineering Manager FAQs: Become an Effective Manager and Lead Your Team to Success

Tech Career Q&A: A Guide to Navigating the Competitive World of Tech

Seven Steps to Stop Quiet Quitting and Start Moving Forward

Prioritise Leadership

Realistic and Simple Career Goals That You Can Set Every Month

10 Signs That Psychological Safety Is Missing In Your Team

Commence, Connect, Coach & Cultivate - A How-to Guide for Senior Tech Leaders

Brief Summary: Commence, Connect, Coach & Cultivate - A How-to Guide for Senior Tech Leaders

The Roles & Responsibilities of an Engineering Manager

The Five Different Types of Engineering Managers (Engineering Managers Archetypes)

Interview for Tech Companies – Improve Your Interviewing Skills

This quiz is a short assessment to help solidify the key takeaways from Chapter 1-4 of Nail That Interview ebook.

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The sole purpose of a screening interview is for the recruiter to check if you are still looking for a job.

Yes

No

What are some of the information that you should share with the recruiter? Tick all that apply.

Your career background and experiences

Your current role and responsibilities

Your current salary

Your current project, i.e: what you’re working on currently

Your age

What information should you find out about the company/role(s) during a screening interveiw?

Latest copy of written job description

Company culture

Current challenges that the company or the hiring manager may be facing

All of the above

Take-home exercises are only applicable to software engineer roles.

Yes

No

What are some of the things hiring managers are looking to see in your take-home exercise? Tick all that apply.

Demonstration of an understanding of industry best practices and principles.

Sufficient information on the decisions and assumptions you made for the exercise

Usage of popular third-party libraries

Relevancy to the company's existing best practices

A downloadable source code

Consistency

What are the essential ingredients to a successful live presentation interview?

Questioning

Thinking

Education

Humor

Are leadership interviews mainly for management roles?

Yes

No

To ace cultural interviews, you need to do the following homework. Tick all that apply.

Study the company's mission, vision, values and principles

Learn more about executives/co-founders of the company

Learn more about the company's culture

Send an email to the company's executives before your interview

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