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How This Boot Camp Grad Tripled Xir Salary & Transformed Xir Career

Before San Francisco resident Faith Garlington started Berkeley Technology Project Management Boot Camp, xe had a strong skill set and many years of professional experience…

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As a financial consultant, Henry Ghazanchian was successful — but he wasn’t content. When considering the next 10 years of his career, he realized that…

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Timothy Sepulvado had quite the career before he took the tech industry by storm. Originally from Northern California, Tim was a professional guitarist who toured…

Designing a New Coding Career: Inside Emily Dorgan’s Boot Camp Experience

Just a few years ago, Emily Dorgan was teaching the basics of computer science while working some smaller jobs on the side. But when the…

Pushing Past Limits: How This Serbian Native Started Over in the United States Despite the Pandemic

In the summer of 2019, Vesna Tertei Rudinski and her husband decided it was time for a change. Packing up their belongings, they moved their…

Freelancing Without Fear: How This Data Analyst Gained Skills and Confidence Through Berkeley Boot Camps

Melissa Wright was at a crossroads. As a military veteran and military spouse, she had moved around a lot over the years. New to the…

Email Marketing, Channel Strategy and Website Optimization: The Top 3 Skills Korinne Munson Took Away From the Digital Marketing Boot Camp

For Korinne Munson — a senior communications professional in the wine and spirits industry —  enrolling in Berkeley Digital Marketing Boot Camp wasn’t about landing a new role. It…

A New Skill Set and a New Position to Match: How a UX/UI Boot Camp Helped John Wallace Advance His Career

John Wallace worked in operations at Vrbo, the vacation home rental arm of travel giant Expedia. After taking part in an internal product workshop, he decided that he…

Berkeley Coding Boot Camp Gave This Technical Writer Creds to Land Her Dream Job

Pam Kelly had years of technological experience under her belt — but still, she had trouble proving her technical knowledge during the job search. After…

How to Choose the Right Recruiter: Tips From an Expert

When changing careers, who you know is often just as important as what you know, so it’s a good idea to start building your professional…

After Years of Searching, One Learner Finds Her Calling Through a UX/UI Boot Camp

After graduating college with a bachelor’s degree in international affairs, Saskia Mick worked a broad range of jobs: from waiting tables to designing floral arrangements to working…

“The Best Learning Experience of My Life”: How Coding Helped Yulia Chilikina Sharpen Her UX Design Skills

Yulia Chilikina loved her job as Senior UX/UI Designer at the direct-to-consumer retailer Wine Access — but without a technical background, she struggled to stay on the same…

To Succeed in Data Analytics, Adopt an Open Mind

Sri Nivedita Ramakrishnan was happy in her career as a business analyst, but she didn’t exactly feel challenged or that she had room for growth. After…

10 Effective Job Search Strategies, According to a Software Engineer

After selling the tech start-up he co-founded, Charles Gedeon wondered what to tackle next. While handling operations at his company, he’d always been fascinated by the work…

More Tools in His Belt: Why One Boot Camp Grad Ditched the Construction Site for the Classroom

Like many people fresh out of college, David Colonia felt some panic after graduation. He’d worked hard to earn his degree in economics and legal studies, but…

The People Behind the Data: How One Engineer Embraced Big Data for a Big Career Upgrade

Many people enroll in an accelerated coding or data analytics boot camp to learn how to work with advanced software and cutting-edge technical tools at…

Big Data, Big Jobs: Follow Nikitha Rao’s Journey to a Data Analyst Position at Sephora

When she was a programming analyst for an investment management firm, Nikitha Rao’s role included cleaning, fetching, and standardizing data. “It was the part that happens…

Isabelle Pinard Didn’t Know What a UX Researcher Was—Now, It’s Her Job Title at Google

It wasn’t long ago that Isabelle Pinard didn’t know what the terms UX/UI meant. Now, she proudly boasts it as part of her job title on Google’s…

Back to His Tech Roots: How Luis Perez Came Back to Coding After Ten Years Away

When Luis Perez began to dabble in coding, in 2006, the internet was a scrappier animal: Myspace was still a behemoth, Facebook had just come on the…

From Contractor to Business Analyst: How One Student Gained the Skills Needed to Land a Career with Uber

A position at Google is a dream for many tech-lovers, serving as a haven of innovation and opportunity. But, as Daniel Tang found, it’s not…