Exploring Careers in Computing
Where to begin. An introduction to the full landscape of computing careers, the questions worth asking before you narrow down, and how to use the rest of this guide series.
Read guide →Student Career Guides
The guides.
Each guide is written from real experience and backed by research. Honest, practical, and specific. Click any guide to read the full version.
What Is Public Interest Technology?
What public interest technology actually is, the nine types of practitioners, key organizations doing this work, and concrete first steps to get connected.
Read guide →Finding Your Path: Careers In and Adjacent to Computing
From traditional software engineering to business analytics, health technology, computational social science, and civic work. Including things I discovered for the first time.
Read guide →Finding the Hidden Network
A documented journey through public interest technology and computing career resources. Signing up for All Tech Is Human, comparing job boards, and finding the network that is not in your computing department.
Read guide →How to Search and Apply for Internships, Fellowships, and Jobs
Platform by platform, step by step. Handshake, LinkedIn, the All Tech Is Human Slack community, fellowship boards. What works, what does not, and how to track everything.
Read guide →Is Graduate School Right for Me?
Whether to go, Master's degrees versus doctoral programs, how to search for programs, what makes a strong application, and how to evaluate offers after you get in.
Read guide →How to Develop a Personal Plan of Growth
Becoming a compelling candidate from where you actually are. Grounded in real experience and current job market research. Honest about what the market actually looks like and what actually helps.
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