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  How Zachary Got Into IT at a Racing Company after Eleven Fifty Academy

  

  Jess Feldman

  Updated on December 3, 2024

  A 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 for Z...

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  Why ACL Digital Hires Grads from Hackbright Academy and Devmountain

  

  Jess Feldman

  Updated on August 24, 2022

  ACL 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 expe...

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  How a Painter Became a Product Designer after Flatiron School

  

  Jess Feldman

  Updated on August 24, 2022

  A 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. At...

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  How Mate Academy Grad Valerie Became a Frontend Engineer at Preply

  

  Jess Feldman

  Updated on August 17, 2022

  Valerie, 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 Cou...

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  Scholarships We Love: The Niantic Voyager Apprenticeship at Tech Elevator

  

  Jess Feldman

  Updated on August 15, 2022

  Tech 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 the...

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  Alumni Spotlight: From Banking to Coding with General Assembly

  

  Jess Feldman

  Updated on September 30, 2024

  Editor’s note: General Assembly stopped accepting new consumer enrollments on April 28, 2026. This article describes programs and experiences from before that change. Read General Assembly’s official notice. Marion “Mell” Lessington III was working at a local bank in Atlanta, but in his 30s, he began second-guessing his career pat...

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  Admissions Spotlight: How to Prepare for Alchemy

  

  Jess Feldman

  Updated on August 10, 2022

  Alchemy 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 need in order to get in. Find out how Alchemy is helping coding beginners level up before bootcamp...

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  Curriculum Spotlight: Data Analytics at DigitalCrafts

  

  Jess Feldman

  Updated on 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...

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  Ask a Career Coach: How Do I Land My 2nd Job After Bootcamp?

  

  Liz Eggleston

  Updated on August 4, 2022

  Welcome 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. M...

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  How Springboard's Foundations Courses are Changing Admissions

  

  Jess Feldman

  Updated on August 3, 2022

  Prior 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 Springboard...

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