Go into any company and you’ll often find that the ‘summer lull’ is the quietest time of year. Desks are empty, the OOO’s are on, and nearly everyone is outside enjoying the summer sun. This is why summer is the ideal time to retrain into a new career. That is especially true when it comes to doing a coding bootcamp like Makers, where you proceed to the job-hunt only a few months after starting. 

Practical considerations to take into account while you’re looking at retraining options

Over the past few weeks, maybe you’ve been hearing the B-word (rhymes with ‘exit’) so many times that part of you now switches off when you hear it. While it’s a crucial consideration for every UK business this year, all the discussions we’ve had seem to conclude that nothing is certain.

Plus a pocket-size peek inside the Makers Academy Web Developer Bootcamp PreCourse (Week 1)

“Iowa man sits at a messy table while holding paint covered pencil and brush” by Alice Achterhof on Unsplash

The often overlooked aspect to making big life changes: they rarely happen in isolation.

Roland (not his real name) was one of the ones I saw every six months. Floppy black hair, thick glasses, towering six-feet-four, always dressed in a button-down white shirt that was the uniform of his role in corporate law at a big firm in the City.

Think of your go-to apps. Deliveroo for food. Whatsapp for messaging. And for travel? Trainline. Trainline is Europe’s leading train and coach app. Its mission? To open up every train and coach journey in the world through cutting-edge tech that saves customers hassle, time and money. The challenge is no mean feat but Trainline believes it’s the people behind its products that can make its mission possible. Its diverse tech team makes up half of its workforce and it continues to enlist new talent with fresh ideas and relevant skills to drive its progress forward.

I wonder how many of you have been ‘The First’ in any workplace?

Now for the first time, we’re offering a job offer guarantee to all Makers.

There are already loads of great reasons to study with Makers: we’re proud to be Europe’s leading software engineering training course and our intensive four-month program (including a month-long PreCourse) sets you up to become a high quality professional software engineer.

“It changed my life” — ” this something we hear often here at Makers — but what does this actually mean? Recognising a change not just in your day or your week but your life moving forward, it’s a big statement. Igor Ryabchuk is a recent Makers graduate set to begin work in his first position as a junior developer. Here, we caught up with him to hear his Makers experience and understand what “life-changing” means to him.