EP33 with guest Anaïs Urlichs - Career Development Lisa at the Edge

Welcome back to another Lisa at the Edge Episode.   

I am joined by the awesome Anaïs Urlichs.  Anaïs begins a new role this week as Developer Advocate at Aqua Security, she is a CNCF Ambassador and a GitHub Star! Anaïs has had an interesting career journey so far.  So of course I asked her to share that with us.  We hear how technology was not the first profession which Anaïs dreamed about, can you guess what she wanted to be when she was young?  Listen to find out!   

📝Full Show Notes: https://bit.ly/3IWkWC2

💬 Key Conversation Points 💬  

0:22 Introductions 

03:45 Early career aspirations  

08:36 Applying for roles & dealing with rejection 

10:37 Any experience is good experience  

12:40 Technical Writing - Lessons Learned  

13:40 Importance of feedback for growth 

16:29 What happened next - the need to build 

18:01 Developer Advocate opportunity in Blockchain 

21:59 Value of Community and Developer Advocacy  

25:30 What happened next - Community Management 

28:00 A recruiter message which stood out 

29:22 Using Kubernetes for the first time during an interview process 

31:45 Starting YouTube & Content Creation 

37:54 Insight from my Yoga Teacher :)  

39:09 What happened next - need to be challenged 

43:40 Back to Developer Advocacy  

48:15 Opportunistic Career Development  

50:57 Importance of Employers supporting and valuing their Employees 

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