# 02: Employment --- ## Schedule 1. Employment intro 2. Finish Git workflow workshop 4. Survey 5. Homework intro 7. Prompt engineering --- ## Employment intro --- Approximately 50% of your time over the next 12 weeks will be focused on meeting employers and preparing for interviews. --- From Week 9, we will invite up to two employers each week to join us for a Q&A session. Four have confirmed so far. --- After the Q&A session, the employer will set you some initial non-technical screening questions and a take-home challenge. After submitting the responses, the employer may invite you to interview. --- Interviews will take place in the final month of the programme (and beyond). We will aim to ensure interviews (at least one, probably more) for everyone. --- After interviews, the employer may make one or more apprenticeship offers. You are under no obligation to accept an offer. --- If you accept an offer, your apprenticeship will officially begin on Monday 16th January with a 12-week full-time training programme. We will also run an induction session on the afternoon of Friday 13th January. --- If you do not receive an apprenticeship offer, you can apply to continue on the programme on an unapprenticed basis. --- ## The apprenticeship --- The apprenticeship typically lasts for 15-18 months with the majority of the training taking place in the first 12 weeks. --- The apprenticeship is completed after you successfully pass your end-point assessment. This requires you to submit a portfolio and project report, for which we will provide support in the latter months of the apprenticeship. --- Our recommendation to employers is for your starting salary as an apprentice to be £18,000 while you are on the full-time training, rising to £24,000 after 3 months. --- We also recommend to employers that they review your salary periodically throughout the apprenticeship. --- ### The apprenticeship handbook --- https://foundersandcoders.notion.site/Apprenticeship-handbook-1f864f0bca344b65bc22c23953c9e5da --- ## Outcomes --- ### FAC24 | | # | | ---- | ----: | | Participants | 13 | | Eligible | 12 | | Apprenticeships secured | 11 | --- ### FAC25 | | # | | ---- | ----: | | Participants | 12 | | Apprenticeships secured | 9 | | Interviewing again this term | 3 | --- We aim to find apprenticeships for all of you who are eligible. But there are no guarantees. It is up to you to put the work in and up to the employers to make good hiring decisions. --- ### Questions? --- ### Finish Git workflow workshop --- ## Surveys --- - Apprenticeship eligibility and verification of identity questionnaire https://airtable.com/shrBddoQWSfaqcLWC - Confirmations https://airtable.com/shrm0qTYWR0UUGYtL --- Break --- ## Homework intro --- ### Workshops Of course --- ### Projects Coming next week. --- ### Employment preparation Coming soon. --- ## GitHub Every day. ---- Commit a little; commit often ---- Example https://github.com/DFLLinton --- ## Execute Program Every day. ---- In this order: 1. JavaScript Arrays 2. Regular Expressions 3. JavaScript Concurrency 4. Modern JavaScript https://www.executeprogram.com/ ---- Who hasn't requested a subscription yet? https://airtable.com/shrfRHss7DDs4XEob --- ## Prompt engineering Please take a look at: - DALL·E - Midjourney - Stable Diffusion Also, listen to The Changelog: Stable Diffusion breaks the internet https://changelog.com/news/stable-diffusion-breaks-the-internet-O5lL Please share your prompts and images on Discord. --- ## Homework - Complete the surveys - GitHub: commit a little; commit often - Execute Program, daily - Finish all the workshops - Prompt engineering