Junior to Senior with David Guttman

Keith and David discuss the power of attitude, how thinking like Product can help your career, and how a little more effort in communication can have a profound impact on building your network.

Show Notes

Talking Points:
  • Critical Outlooks For Success
  • Product Focus
  • Focusing On The Customer
  • Extract Value From What You Provide
  • Main Hirable Attribute
  • Selecting Reliable Frameworks
  • Networking As A Junior Dev
Quotable Quotes: 
  • “Start with the customer and then work backwards.” - KH
  • “Every engineer should be a product person.” - KH
  • “Are we building an experience that the customer loves and has the desire to use?” - KH
  • “Attitude is 80% [ of why I hire someone ]” - KH
  • “It’s so easy to hate [ new technologies ] so you just need to pull your head back out and see [ from a different angle ].” - KH
  • “Make it work, make it right, make it fast.” - DG
  • “You gotta fall on your face. You have and embrace the failures, because that’s what’s going to teach you.” - KH
  • “I always like to look at ways to amplify ones place on the team.” - KH
  • “You are the average of your surroundings.” - KH
  • “The personal touch [ when it comes to networking ] is just so much more valuable.” - KH
  • “Focus on ways to try harder with more effort [ in networking].” - KH
  • "Everyone can control how hard they work." - KH
Notes:
Keith's Website:
hoerling.com
Dimension Software:
dimensionsoftware.com
Keith's LinkedIn:
linkedin.com/in/keith-hoerling
Call to Action Podcast:
dimensionsoftware.com/call-to-action
Junior to Senior Community
community.juniortosenior.io

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