Video Course: The Tech Career Playbook For Individuals
Video Course: The Tech Career Playbook For Individuals
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The course that turns coders into in-demand tech professionals. Coding is only half the job - this course teaches the other half!
What you get:
- Over 9 hours and more than 60 episodes of on demand micro-learning video lessons
- IT Industry focus: Efficient & easy to apply career hacks from real tech experts
- Not yet another theory lesson: Content based on real tech life example and experiences
- Downloadable handouts for each lesson
- Quizzes to deepen your knowledge
- Downloadable certificate after successful completion
- Regular course updates
Skill-Based Video Lessons
Self-Management
Optimize Your Assets: Use Your Utter Potential
This chapter is about how you can use your time and focus skillfully and efficiently. This is really about craftsmanship and mastering good processes and tools for your own daily work. You have to be able and show, that you can get your sh*t together and work organized and efficiently like a professional.
Major skills covered in this chapter:
- Time & Prio Management
- Handling Criticism & Stress
- Decision Making
- Critical Thinking
Tech Ownership
Take Responsibility: Become The Go-To Expert In Your Field
This chapter deals with the important IT processes in the business and covers the flanking processes along the entire software development life cycle. A go-to-expert must be able to understand them, explain them clearly and apply them. You will learn how to become such an expert.
Major skills covered in this chapter:
- Communication To Non-Tech People
- Software Dev. Lifecycle
- Analytical Thinking
- Strategic Thinking
Communication
Bridge The Tech Language Gap: Be A Compelling Communicator
This chapter is about the different types of communication at work. We pay particular attention to practical helpers for everyday working life when communicating with the team, but especially when communicating with other departments, different hierarchical levels, customers and non-technicians.
Major skills covered in this chapter:
- Spoken Communication
- Written Communication
- Nonverbal Communication
- Communication with other departments (Sales, Marketing, Supervisor, Management,...)
Collaboration
Join Forces: Work Well With And Empower Others
This chapter offers useful information and hacks on dealing with teams and working across team boundaries with other departments, as well as tips and tricks on how you can contribute to more effective and enjoyable teamwork. We put emphasis on how good teamwork can boost your own career.
Major skills covered in this chapter:
- Conflict & Feedback
- Teaching & Mentoring
- Team Work
- Cultural Awareness
Mindset
Foster The Right Mindset: Build A Winner Mentality
This chapter illustrates how powerful the right mindset is and how you can influence it easily. We will take a closer look at the topic of &dealing with criticism& and show you how you can make the best of it yourself. Further topics are for example making yourself heard, self-marketing and career best-practice.
Major skills covered in this chapter:
- Professional Responsibility
- Leadership
- Work Ethics & Attitude
- Networking
Business Acumen
See The Big Picture: Understand The Business Side Of Tech
This chapter is dedicated to the business side of the IT industry, in particular what IT means in the overall context of a corporate identity: value propositions, business models, journey mappings and pitches. Special attention is also paid to the human side and behaviors of customers and stakeholders
Major skills covered in this chapter:
- Big Picture
- Customer Focus
- Corporate Awareness
Career
Know What You Want: Pursue A Career Vision
This chapter is about the requirements of the different career paths and an honest review of our industry. We provide tools to help you find your way and define your vision and goals. We discuss how you can keep up with the fast pacing industry and how to be adaptable and open to change.
Major skills covered in this chapter:
- Clear Vision
- Long-Term Thinking
Utter Personas
FAQ
Why should I care about soft skills? I write code, I am not a manager.
Ever had a brilliant idea get ignored? Ever watched a less-skilled engineer get promoted over you? You are not alone in this! Almost 75% of all other software developers feel the same way!
But there are also those who make it work. It’s not because they’re better—it’s because they know how to communicate, push their ideas, and influence decisions.
You can keep grinding out code and hope someone notices your work… or you can learn the skills that make people listen to you, take you seriously, and give you more responsibility.
If a career is important to you, you should know this: 94% of recruiters believe: employees with stronger soft skills are more likely promoted than employees with more years of experience but weaker soft skills.
How do I know that this is not yet another BS soft skills course?
Fair question. Most courses really are too generic, too theoretical, or too slow.
This one is built differently.
- We don't teach theory, we teach experience.
- We teach proven career hacks based on real situations from real tech experts. After each micro lesson, you will have learned a new, directly applicable hack.
- In contrast to conventional courses, we use a unique teaching approach that is based on presenting all learning content in an algorithmically applicable form.
- We don't do group therapy or chair circles :-)
I already have enough work on my plate. How could I fit in this course?
OUR COURSE WORKS LIKE THIS: 1 LESSON, 10 MINUTES A DAY!
- "Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein." - H. Jackson Brown Jr.
- "Lack of time is actually lack of priorities." - Tim Ferris
Success isn't about huge leaps. It's about small daily steps. If you can't manage to invest 10 minutes a day in your personal growth, then let me ask you: Do you run your day or does the day run you?
Why should I pay for this? Shouldn’t my company cover it?
Absolutely! Your boss likely has a training budget for you—don't let it go to waste. Be smart and invest in your future.
Need help convincing your boss? We've got you covered. Use this template to request financing from your training budget:
For those who do not have a boss paying for their upskilling:
Why not take your own growth into your own hands? If you are promoted just 4 days earlier, the course has already paid off.
Customer Voices
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Olga L., Tech Lead
"I used so much of this course to answer questions in a challenging job interview and it made an impression. The handouts are right on point and can be used immediately. I was offered 10% more than I asked for. Thanks Utterskills :)"
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Michael K., Software Engineer
"This course is like having a mentor at your side who gives you practical and helpful advice so that you don't have to go through all the experiences yourself. Highly recommended!"
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Philip S., Software Engineer
"I've always found it hard to make non-technical people understand and appreciate my work. In this course I have learned many useful and actually easy to implement communication hacks that make my work life so much easier."