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# Roles in Tech

### Projected Time
30-45 minutes
About 1 hour
- 9 minutes for the video walkthrough of the slides
- 20 minutes for the Group Practice
- 30 minutes for the Independent Practice

### Prerequisites
- Learning to Learn lesson
- Professionalism lesson
- "Professionalism" lesson

### Motivation
While Techtonica is training you to become a software engineer, there are lots of other technical and non-technical roles available to people working in the tech industry!
Techtonica is training you to become a software engineer, but there are lots of other technical and non-technical roles available to people working in the tech industry. This lesson presents a wide variety of other tech jobs that may be of interest to you.

### Objective
**Students will be able to**
- Talk about the kind of work various non-engineer employees do in the tech industry
- Show understanding of a variety of software engineering specialties
- show understanding of a variety of non-engineer roles in the tech industry
- Talk about how these tech and non-tech roles fit together within a company

### Specific Things To Teach
- Web & mobile development
- Engineering specialties
- Security & testing job descriptions
- Data & analytics job descriptions
- Developer support job descriptions
- Management descriptions

### Materials
- [Roles in Tech lesson slides](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1thHjKNbpTh3lp6BtFjSS5HqgCrMQl9EO9LdLgLHBdMA/edit?usp=sharing)
- [Roles in Tech lab exercise](https://github.com/Techtonica/curriculum/blob/master/roles-in-tech/lab-exercise.md)
- [Roles in Tech (video walkthrough of slides)](https://drive.google.com/open?id=1oXgOX1EC4igI6ZwgJlhF6AN4dG2Yn_S4)

- [Roles in Tech (slides)](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1thHjKNbpTh3lp6BtFjSS5HqgCrMQl9EO9LdLgLHBdMA/edit?usp=sharing)

### Common Mistakes / Misconceptions
- "Since I'm attending a software engineering apprenticeship program, the only job in tech I'll be able to get after this will be as a junior software engineer." (False!)
- "If I take a non-software-engineering job after Techtonica I'll be a failure / I'll have let people down." (False!)
- "Techtonica guarantees me a job as a software engineer after I complete the program." (Very, very False.)
- "The only employees at a tech company who really matter are the engineers." (Extra False.)
- **"Since I'm attending a software engineering apprenticeship program, the only job in tech I'll be able to get after this will be as a junior software engineer."**
- **"If I take a non-software-engineering job after Techtonica I'll be a failure. I'll have let people down."**
- **"Techtonica guarantees me a job as a software engineer after I complete the program."**
- **"The only employees at a tech company who really matter are the engineers."**


### Group Practice

Collaborate to come up with an email template that can be used to ask for informational interviews. One person can type into a text editor if a laptop is connected to a projector; otherwise, one person can write on a whiteboard.

### Independent Practice
- [Roles in Tech project](https://github.com/Techtonica/curriculum/blob/master/roles-in-tech/lab-exercise.md)

1. On your own, choose 3 to 5 roles from the lesson that sound interesting to you and do some research on Google and YouTube about those roles. Jot down a few notes about each role, such as what interests you, what you might like about that role, what questions you have about the role, etc.

2. Of the roles you researched, choose the top 2 or 3 that really stand out to you. Using LinkedIn, find 2 or 3 people who work in the Bay Area doing the jobs you're interested in. Reach out to them and ask for an informational interview using the template we came up with during the Group Practice activity.

3. Go to 2 to 4 informational interviews within the next 30 days and take notes on your conversations. These meetings will count towards your 3 required networking events per month! Be ready to share your notes with the cohort in about a month.

### Challenge
On their own, participants can look up job ads for roles they are interested in and make a list of the common skills and job responsibilities needed in order to qualify.

### Check for Understanding
In a round table discussion format, students share and compare notes from the conversations they had during the project portion of this topic.
A month from now, in a roundtable discussion format, students share and compare notes from the conversations they had during the project portion of this topic.

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