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Is it possible to land a junior dev or QA job in Ireland by without a degree?

  • 09-11-2015 9:08pm
    #1
    ColcloughP
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29 ✭


    So according to this American guy called Joshua Kemp, he gave up his job as a blacksmith and instead spent 9 months learning Ruby on Rails. After this time, and some networking etc., he managed to land a decent enough job as a junior dev.

    Here's the story and the plan in a little more detail
    joshuakemp.blogspot.ie/2013/11/how-blacksmith-learned-to-code-and-9.html

    Anyway, can anyone who works in IT tell me whether this is plausible. I've been unemployed for a while now and I'd learn anything if it meant a job at the end of the road, but I don't want to start down this difficult road if there's no hope of a job at the end. As such I have a few questions.

    Is it all just bull**** made to sell books?
    Did he just get very lucky?
    Is it just something that could work in the US but not Ireland?
    Or can someone do this in 9 months and get a decent enough entry-level job?

    Thanks


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  • #2
    tiffbunny
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43 ✭tiffbunny


    Hi,
    Speaking as someone who works in IT recruitment, I'd be wary of committing to a non-official course of study with the expectation of landing a job with that as your only qualification. However, if you do a 1-year conversion course (H.Dip) in Computing/CS/IT/etc, you'll be in the running to get into one of Dublin's many excellent IT Graduate programmes, and will have an official degree for your effort.

    However, to be realistic, my own company's Grad Programme will have 60-80 spots available across all of 2016, for which we'll end up receiving an estimated 1500+ applicants -- so competition is fierce, but it's definitely possible. Any learning you do outside of your program to show your drive/interest in IT will only help - and that's where an independent study of Ruby, Spring, Struts, Python, whatever - could help you shine.

    If you go the conversion course route, I'd recommend starting your search at DIT - as we've had really excellent candidates from them as a whole.


  • #3
    draiochtanois
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  • #4
    Musicman2000
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    ColcloughP wrote: »
    So according to this American guy called Joshua Kemp, he gave up his job as a blacksmith and instead spent 9 months learning Ruby on Rails. After this time, and some networking etc., he managed to land a decent enough job as a junior dev.

    Here's the story and the plan in a little more detail
    joshuakemp.blogspot.ie/2013/11/how-blacksmith-learned-to-code-and-9.html

    Anyway, can anyone who works in IT tell me whether this is plausible. I've been unemployed for a while now and I'd learn anything if it meant a job at the end of the road, but I don't want to start down this difficult road if there's no hope of a job at the end. As such I have a few questions.

    Is it all just bull**** made to sell books?
    Did he just get very lucky?
    Is it just something that could work in the US but not Ireland?
    Or can someone do this in 9 months and get a decent enough entry-level job?

    Thanks

    Someone else asked the same a question last week. You will get all the answers you need here. A quick answer no you don't need a degree. plenty of other good courses . A lot od grads fresh out of college haven't a clue.
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057519959


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