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Career Transitions: Wrapped and Ready to Reflect

Writing about career transitions, specifically values, soft skills, culture, navigating career uncertainty, leadership styles and finally remote work has filled our cups. To support your career growth as we go into a new year, we’re sharing the highlights of each article below

Career Transitions Series: Is remote work right for you?

With the holiday season approaching, you might be bracing yourself for conversations around the dinner table regarding your job.

Coding at Startups vs Corporate

If you’re in a situation thinking about what type of role and company best fits your goals, this article may help you identify some key differences between coding at startups and corporate companies.

Career Transitions Series: Leadership Styles

Let’s connect about leadership style topics that can help you find your own style or mix of styles since one size doesn’t fit all.

Career Transitions Series: Navigating Career Uncertainty

If you’ve been laid off before, you can likely vividly remember exactly how you felt shortly after – anger, guilt, feeling like you’re replaceable.

While they hopefully only happen once in your life (or ideally never!), there are a few ways you can prepare yourself for a potential layoff.

Compensation Negotiation with Startups

Learning to negotiate compensation is a critical skill to have but also challenging to develop. It’s crucial to strategically communicate your expertise and needs to get the best compensation package possible.

Career Transitions Series: Culture

With a toxic culture accounting for almost two thirds of why employees leave their jobs, there’s never been a better time to carefully consider what kind of culture you want to work in and want to help build.

Career Transitions Series: Soft Skills

Career Transitions Series: Values

“Our values can be fluid and change over time. The values you held 5 years ago may be vastly different than what they are today. If they haven’t changed that much, that’s OK! As time passes, we may start to form different opinions about the places we work, the importance of different factors around work, and the field(s) we are a part of.”

What led software engineers to Commit?

It’s normal these days to have a non-linear career path – we find a cadence between taking a break and working, which may also include switching companies.