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CareerFoundry Grads 2 Years After UX Design Bootcamp
5/27/2021
Aladrian Goods and Cici Yang were caught in careers they weren't passionate about when they decided to tap into their creative sides. Both Aladrian and Cici enrolled in CareerFoundry’s fully remote UX Design bootcamp in order to kickstart their careers in UX design – and two years later, their careers have taken off! Cici and Aladrian share why they chose CareerFoundry's bootcamp, the differences between a Product Designer vs a Content Designer, and the advantages (and disadvantages!) of freelancing. Plus, hear their advice for UX design bootcampers looking to land their dream design job now.
Continue Reading →Tutor Spotlight: Angie Huetteman of CareerFoundry
3/20/2020
Meet Angie Huetteman, a Data Analytics Tutor at CareerFoundry’s new self-paced, online Data Analytics Program. Angie tells us how CareerFoundry tutors and mentors support their self-paced students, the types of students who are most successful in data analytics, and her advice for finding your niche within the data analytics industry.
Continue Reading →Meet Kasia: From Dancer to Developer with CareerFoundry
3/6/2020
Kasia Pryczek didn’t even own a computer, but was on the hunt for a creative, flexible, stable career as she raised her newborn. She enrolled in CareerFoundry’s Full-Stack Web Development Program, and after graduation, moved back to her home country of Poland for a job at a software consulting company called Startup Development House. Find out how Kasia juggled motherhood and bootcamp, got promoted from Junior to Mid-level Web Developer, and fought through imposter syndrome in her career change.
Continue Reading →Anja Lena’s Journey to UX Design with CareerFoundry
1/22/2020
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Günther’s Story: From Lawyer to Web Developer with CareerFoundry
11/27/2019
Günther von Häfen’s itch to learn something new started while he was working as a lawyer in Germany. He began dabbling in web development courses online and loved it so much that he decided to make a career change and enrolled in a CareerFoundry bootcamp. In just 5 months, working in the wee hours of the morning as a full-time dad, he landed a full-time job as a Web Developer at 3B Scientific while still working on the course with just having finished around 50% at that time! Günther tells us why he chose CareerFoundry, what (and how) he learned in the JavaScript curriculum, and how he balanced fatherhood with his career change.
Continue Reading →Finding UX Design Later in Life with CareerFoundry
10/21/2020
After being a pastor for 19 years, Jeff was looking to get into tech, and discovered UX design as a great way to combine logic and creative skills. He wanted to learn future-focused skills, and found online UX design bootcamp CareerFoundry met all his requirements. Jeff tells us how he balanced his part-time studies with his full time job in Charlotte, North Carolina, how Germany-based CareerFoundry ensured he had access to North American mentors, and how he landed his job as a Design Strategist at an Energy company!
Continue Reading →Online Coding Bootcamp Cost Comparison
10/23/2019
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October 2018 Coding Bootcamp Podcast
10/31/2018
Just as coding languages are always changing, things also change very quickly in the coding bootcamp industry! In October we read about two big acquisitions, some fundraises, and partnerships and rivalries between universities and bootcamps. We heard about the interesting backgrounds of some female bootcamp founders, and what demand there is for software developers in the tech industry! There were also articles about companies teaming up with bootcamps and two coding bootcamps going through hardships. Read the summary or listen to the podcast!
Continue Reading →Guide to Coding Bootcamps with Job Guarantees
2/6/2020
So you want to land a job after coding bootcamp? The statistics are on your side – 73% of bootcampers report being employed as developers after graduation. But did you know that many coding bootcamps go one step further and offer a job guarantee? We’ve put together a list of in-person and online coding bootcamps in the USA and around the world which offer guaranteed job placement. And don’t get caught off guard by the details – we’ve also included specifics about job guarantee tuition refunds, conditions, and tips to help you work out if a job guarantee coding bootcamp is right for you.
Continue Reading →Why a UI Designer is Not a UX Designer
4/16/2020
UX? UI? So you’ve seen the acronyms everywhere, but now you’re wondering what exactly is the difference between the two terms? And to make it even more confusing, just what is a UX/UI designer? Some kind of unicorn hybrid? While some people tend to group the two positions in the same boat, they’re actually separate disciplines that both share a common goal of creating a product that is centered around the needs of its users. But just how does the role of a UI designer differ from that of a UX designer?
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