How do you get hired as a non-traditional newbie coder with no experience? You've completed step one by joining Career Karma, your first tech network.

Now we're going to help each other build out our online web developer or UX/UI or data scientist presence while learning our tech through bootcamps and self-study. What follows is not a one night process; but it is something to start now.

Your squad presence

As a member of Portfolio Builders please set up accounts to connect with us on Career Karma, Slack, and Trello.

• Career Karma, download the app then join the Portfolio Builders squad
• Slack
• Trello
• Portfolio Builder's GitHub (use the Career Karma app to request an invite to join)

Your professional online presence

As a tech career job hunter, these are the recommended parts of your portfolio (optional components in italics); please set up accounts with each:

• GitHub (your code)
• LinkedIn (your online résumé)
• Twitter (network with each other and other tech influencers in your field)
• Codepen (on line code editor for front end web developers, your front end code)
• Dribble (for designers and creative professionals, your design portfolio)
• Personal website, developers should have their own domain name and create a website from scratch, others can host on GitHub
• Video résumé

Your job hunting tools

As a job hunter you want to have a polished and flexible résumé, email account, and elevator speech, plus a few tools for digital job hunting

• résumé, as a word processing document, in pdf format, and as a copy and paste text document
• elevator speech
• email account, professional; Gmail is fine, but it should have a variation of your legal name
• professional headshot
• Skype, locate a neutral background in a quiet space for interviews
• Zoom, have it installed on both your laptop and mobile devices
• Stack Overflow, developer professional community, read and dissect answers you don't understand
• Indeed.com, find companies with entry level and junior positions, get keywords and needed proficiencies from the job ads
• Glassdoor, employee reviews of companies

Your networking strategies

• Breaking Into Startups, a podcast about and for people from non-traditional background who are breaking into tech
• This Week in Tech, a weekly podcast that covers the past week's goings on in tech, from coding to gaming to devices and companies
• Meetup
• Hackathons
• Techstars Startup Weekend