Remember how excited you were when you graduated from high school? The world was at your feet, and you were ready to conquer it. Off you went to college where you…never figured out what you really wanted to do? Or you got a degree in a subject you loved…that gave you zero career prospects. Or maybe you never even finished high school, let alone college.
Whatever your situation is now, you *can* have a career you really love that pays the bills and keeps you happy. It took me three tries, but the third one truly was a charm—that’s when I made the switch into tech.
And guess what? In the tech world, nobody has ever asked about my degree. Showing I had the skills was enough to get me the job, and I’m not alone. In the tech industry, your skills and your work count for far more than any diploma.
Here are 25 actual job listings in tech you can get without going back to school. You can take some of them on with fresh new skills, while others will require a bit of experience in the field.
If you are pumped about getting an awesome job in tech (without sinking years of your life and thousands of dollars into a degree), you’re in the right place. And if you’re worried you don’t have the skills you need to get your foot in the door, check out Skillcrush’s 10-Day Coding Bootcamp. You’ll get a great introduction into the world of tech and even write your first lines of code!
And if you’re excited about working in tech without sinking years of your life and thousands of dollars into a degree, but you’re still feeling like you’re not quite prepared for the job market, you’re in the right place. Check out Skillcrush’s 10-Day Coding Bootcamp to get a free intro to tech, or download our free ebook, The Beginner’s Guide to Landing a Junior Developer Job. You’ll find out exactly what it takes to get hired in tech and what that means for you.
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1. Customer Advocate, Zendesk
What you’ll be doing: “Providing top-notch support” with “fantastic troubleshooting and analytical skills…to help customers.”
Tech skills you’ll need to do it: HTML and CSS, JavaScript
2. Content Marketing and Community Manager, Rocket Lawyer
What you’ll be doing: “Content creation, promotion, and community engagement.”
Tech skills you’ll need to do it: WordPress, HTML and CSS, Adobe Creative Suite
3. Digital Content Associate (freelance), Chipotle
What you’ll be doing: “Publishing and deploying content” and collaborating “with various content producers, business owners and stakeholders to update and maintain web content.”
Tech skills you’ll need to do it: HTML and CSS, JavaScript, PHP, content management systems (like WordPress or Drupal)
4. JavaScript Application Engineer, PayPal
What you’ll be doing: Designing, developing, and “testing of features/functions delivered via applications and services.”
Tech skills you’ll need to do it: HTML and CSS, JavaScript, Node.js, mobile operating systems, databases
5. Web Designer, Octovo
What you’ll be doing: Supporting “marketing efforts by focusing your efforts on helping build the marketing site, microsites, and landing pages that include supporting materials.”
Tech skills you’ll need to do it: HTML and CSS, design, mobile web, and maybe JavaScript, PHP, and Python
6. Website Manager, Doctors without Borders
What you’ll be doing: “Managing the development and maintenance of” the website.
Tech skills you’ll need to do it: Photoshop, responsive design, UX, HTML and CSS, JavaScript and jQuery, PHP, WordPress, Drupal, Git
7. User Experience Specialist, Getaround
What you’ll be doing: Solving “complex interactions by humanizing user flows and interactions” and creating “elegant and gratifying application experiences.”
Tech skills you’ll need to do it: Design, UI/UX, HTML and CSS or JavaScript
8. WordPress Front End Developer, Gate 39 Media
What you’ll be doing: Working with the “design and marketing teams, and fellow developers, to create and maintain web sites, web applications and online marketing campaigns.”
Tech skills you’ll need to do it: Responsive design, Photoshop, HTML and CSS, jQuery , WordPress
9. Junior Front End Developer, Urban Outfitters
What you’ll be doing: Turning “designs into high quality HTML, CSS and JavaScript”
Tech skills you’ll need to do it: Responsive design, HTML and CSS, JavaScript, Photoshop, PHP, Sass / LESS, Git
10. Graphic Designer and Front End Web Developer, Friends of the High Line
What you’ll be doing: Spearheading “the design of FHL’s branding, marketing, and collateral materials” and “designing and coding FHL’s website and emails.”
Tech skills you’ll need to do it: Responsive design, UX/UI, Photoshop, HTML and CSS, JavaScript and jQuery, frameworks, Ruby on Rails, CMS
11. Front End Engineer, Simple
What you’ll be doing: “Making web apps with a team of smart, inspired people.”
Tech skills you’ll need to do it: HTML and CSS, JavaScript, API’s, frameworks, and possibly Ruby on Rails
12. Associate Web Producer, Princess Cruises
What you’ll be doing: Assisting “in the development and implementation of website projects including analysis, design, production and maintenance phases.”
Tech skills you’ll need to do it: HTML and CSS, JavaScript, CMS
13. Digital Production Assistant (part-time), Transportation Alternatives
What you’ll be doing: Creating and customizing “digital assets, including emails, newsletters, RSVPs, and action alerts.”
Tech skills you’ll need to do it: HTML and CSS
14. UX Designer, Solutions for Progress
What you’ll be doing: Creating “great-looking and highly accessible user interfaces for SfP’s online services.”
Tech skills you’ll need to do it: Design, HTML and CSS, WordPress
15. Junior Designer, Talent Inc
What you’ll be doing: Working on projects that are “layout and production based, with a focus on the web.”
Tech skills you’ll need to do it: Design, Adobe Creative Suite, possibly HTML and CSS
16. JavaScript Engineer, Drivin
What you’ll be doing: Helping “build large, maintainable JavaScript applications for multiple platforms.”
Tech skills you’ll need to do it: Design, UI, JavaScript, frameworks, GitHub
17. UX Designer, NBC Universal
What you’ll be doing: Providing “UX and UI design for a responsive web product with a mobile first sensibility”
Tech skills you’ll need to do it: Design, Photoshop, HTML and CSS, JavaScript, SASS
18. Front End Web Developer, Call-Em-All
What you’ll be doing: Helping “build the next version of our web application and beyond”
Tech skills you’ll need to do it: Design, HTML and CSS, JavaScript, frameworks
And don’t forget to download Skillcrush’s free ebook, The Beginner’s Guide to Landing a Junior Developer Job. You’ll find out exactly what it takes to land one of these awesome jobs.
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