Corecom Consulting delivers a seminar to Leeds Beckett University students regarding how to create a winning IT Portfolio.

1. Corecom Consulting
- Jonathan, Andreas and Rebecca

2.  Introductions
 Gaining work experience
 Creating a portfolio
 GitHub
 LinkedIn
 CV Advice
 Questions

3.  Corecom Consulting
 Trading for 8 years
 IT Recruitment
 Based in Leeds City Centre
◦ Jonathan
 Entrepreneurial spirit from the age of seven
 Ex Leeds Met / Beckett
 10yrs IT Recruitment
 Got my Grad role from Leeds Met
◦ Andreas
 Ex Leeds Met / Beckett
 Worked the .Net market for 12mths
◦ Rebecca
 Not Ex Leeds Met / Beckett
 Worked the Java market for 7mths

4.  The Right Experience
◦ All experience is good experience
 The problem with Grad Roles
◦ Graduate IT Role – Paying £25k
◦ Must have one – two years experience
 IT experience
◦ Voluntary
◦ University Project work
◦ Approach Charities
◦ Leeds Beckett Job Shop
◦ Personal Network – new sites or sites to improve

5. • Online Portfolios
• StackOverflow
• GitHub

6. -www.iamritch.com/index.html
-www.nickiwilson.org.uk/
-www.chrisdykes.co.uk
-www.jamesbrenton.co.uk
-www.samwakeling.com/
-www.augustotriste.co.uk/

7.  Free Q & A site for Developers
 Rated answers
 Marked answers
 Things you can ask about...
 Specific programming problems
 Software Algorithms
 Coding techniques
 Software development tools
 Tags
 Reputation...
 Access to moderation tools
 Vote to close, reopen, or migrate questions
 Edit other peoples posts

8.  Largest code host on the planet with over 22.1
million repositories.
 Tools are open to the community for public
projects and secure for private projects.
 Features:
 Flexible issue tracker
 Milestones
 Labels
 Closes
 Restricted accessibility

15. LinkedIn is not just a professional
network...
Its an online CV.
Any work experience
is good work experience!

16. This may seem obvious, but you’d be amazed how many people
do not do this.
 ‘if’ instead of ‘it’/’is’, ‘a’ when you need ‘an’, ‘think’ instead
of ‘thing’
 Languages/tools misspelled
 Automatic slang / colloquialisms (‘cause / coz)
 Attention to detail is key for a role in IT.

17.  Put the location in which you will be looking for
work when you finish your studies, not just your
current location.

18. This may seem obvious, but you’d be surprised what people do share!