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How it all works

Mentorship is the influence, guidance, or direction given by a mentor. A mentor is someone who teaches or gives help and advice to a less experienced and often younger person. In an organizational setting, a mentor influences the personal and professional growth of a mentee. - Wikipedia

We take this definition a bit further by providing coaching, tutoring, materials, classes, and more, to give you a complete, well rounded experience.

About mentoring

Our mentoring process is broken down into the following cyclic process, which repeats monthly:

  1. You passively learn using the materials we've curated for you
  2. The moment you become stuck, you reach out and seek our assistance
  3. Twice per month we meet up to discuss your progress in a 1-2-1, via video chat
  4. We set (additional) goals, challenges and more based on your feedback

But wait, there's more! Between 1-2-1 sessions you're going to need help - we guarantee it - so that's why we've got Walk-Ins, a service for asking quick 5-10 minute questions so you can overcome your technical issues.

We've also got weekly Streams to learn something new and also ask questions about the topic of the stream. This is a great way of seeing what's going on in the industry and learning from someone doing the job.

During your 1-2-1 sessions you can also take advantage of our Chaos Engineering service to really test your capabilities. We recommend you start using this service after you're at the stage where you're building infrastructure in AWS. This way, we can login to your account and, well, break stuff! It also means we can share pre-made challenges with you so you can really test your debugging skills.

You're eventually going to start using our Mock Interviews service to prepare yourself for actual job interviews. Exciting times! These interviews will challenge you to answer tough questions in a somewhat stressful environment (but not too stressful - you're here to learn and prepare, not suffer a heart attack!)

Finally, we'll also have a video challenge for those looking to enchance their portfolio after they've tackled a few of the Mock Technical Interviews (above.) This process involves having a 1-2-1 with your expert during which you have to complete tasks in AWS, GitHub, the console, and more, all in real-time. This is all recorded - you, your screen, the expert, the audio, everything. When you're feeling confident, you can share the video with anyone you like (or no one at all) and use it showcase your skills. This, in short, a technical interview. Employers will love this! It saves them a lot of time and it shows them you're serious about this. It might even result in your ability to skip some of the interviewing process, but we can't guarantee that.

Note

The video recording is optional, though. Don't feel you have to do it. We can, in fact, just do the technical interview as part of our Mock Interviews service. You'll learn a lot from that process.

All of this repeats in a cycle that suits your needs, until you land your first job.

This planner

Your learning experience is all wrapped up inside of this Planner. That's what you're reading now: the Planner. It contains everything you need to get started, and you progress through it in a linear manner - from top to bottom.

Each Stage is broken up into Topics, and you'll work your way through each Topic like so:

  1. You consume the curated materials we've supplied you in the Topic
  2. You'll use multiple choice assessments to test your academic understanding of the materials
  3. You build stuff, via project work, to test you total understanding of the materials
  4. And you tackle challenges (where applicable) to test your ability to debug problems

All of this keeps you laser focused on the task at hand: moving you into a DevOps related (junior) role.

What we're not offering you...

The following is not what this service provides:

  • Spoon feeding
  • Hand holding
  • Completing tasks for you and you just watch

If we simply spoon fed you, you'd never learn anything. If we held your hand all the way to the end, you'd never learn anything, nor have the confidence to operate on your own. And if we just did everything for you whilst you watched, then you'd simply be giving us money for no reason whatsoever (believe it or not, but we're not interested in that.)

Overall, we're not interested in offering that kind of service. We want to make you into a self-sufficient, competent engineer who can solve problems and build new solutions because you've understood how things are built, instead of being a technician who knows how-to click things together but falls on their face when it breaks or doesn't work as intended.

We are of course here to help, so do reach out if you need assistance. We encourage you to ask for help whenever you need it - it's why you're here, after all.

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We recommend you now move to the Getting Help section so that you know how-to communicate with us as and when you need to.