Standout

Acknowledgements

Foreword

Introduction

Personal Brand Management

1. Early Career - Establish Your Brand
2. The Journeyman - Build and Expand Your Brand
3. Mastery

Job Hunting

1. Utilising Your Network
2. Applying Directly to Companies
3. Running the Recruiter Gauntlet
4. Job Boards
5. Alternative Paths to Employment

Your CV - Your First Work Product

1. The Cover Letter
2. Targeting Your Cover Letter
3. The 2-Pager
4. Make Further Details Discoverable
5. What to Include in Your CV
6. CV Do’s, Don’ts
7. Do
8. Don’t

Interviews

1. What Do Interviewers Want?
2. Interview Techniques
3. Common Interviewee Errors
4. Preparation
5. Phone Interviews
6. In Person
7. Other Types of Interviews
8. Interviewers Behaving Badly
9. Questions for the Interviewer

Negotiating Salary and Benefits

1. Early Career
2. Mid Career
3. Late Career
4. Your initial salary sets the benchmark for future raises
5. Remuneration Negotiation

Rejection

What To Do When You’re Not Job Hunting

1. Keep a log
2. Create Narratives
3. Discuss your career objectives with your line manager

A Final Word and a Small Request

More Tales From The Trenches

1. The Quiet Achiever
2. Trying on Many Hats
3. Try Before You Fly
4. Interview-bot
5. An Interview With Attitude
6. Hiring - Beyond Interviews
7. Ready, Fire, Aim
8. Interviews Are Hard Work
9. Monkey See, Monkey Poo
10. Hidden Biases
11. Interviewing is a Two-way Street
12. How I Hire
13. The Importance of Being Authentic

Appendix 1 - Questions and Prompts to Build Narratives

1. Testing
2. Agile
3. People and Soft Skills
4. Self Awareness, Improvement and Career Drive
5. Industry
6. Other Common Interview Questions

Appendix 2 - Interview Practice Scenarios

1. Scenario 1 - Conservative Bank
2. Scenario 2 - Startup Company
3. Scenario 3 - Agile to the Core
4. Scenario 4 - Enterprise in Transition

Appendix 3 - Further Reading and Resources

1. Job Hunting, Interviews, CVs
2. Apprenticeship Links
3. Testing Fundamentals
4. Coding
5. UX