Category: Resources

Creative work—whether you’re a visual designer, developer, UX designer, etc.—comes with a challenge most jobs don’t have: the occasional total lack of inspiration. Stumped as to how you can keep the ideas flowing when you’re feeling tapped out? One solution: Take in some design inspiration to kick-start your creative process. And while you’re at it,…

Get Our Free Ultimate Guide to Coding for Beginners Make a plan for learning the tech skills you need to land a new job with this 60+ page FREE ebook! It’s intimidating enough to learn new skills, but when you don’t even know where to begin you can find yourself stuck in neutral. This is…

Working for an all-remote company has ton of perks, and being able to work from anywhere with a stable (or sometimes not-so-stable) internet connection is one of the best parts. It’s super fun to see some of the weird, unconventional, and cool places some of my co-workers check in from on a daily basis. Working remotely…

When someone says the word “scrum,” you might think they’re talking about people in rugby jerseys standing in a circle and crashing into each other. But when someone brings up scrum in terms of the workplace, they’re probably referencing Scrum with a capital “S”, which begs the question: what is Scrum? And how can you…

Do you struggle with how to make your career work for you? Are you dreaming of being your own boss? Of making your money work for you instead of just paying your bills and hoping for something left over till your next paycheck comes? Or maybe it’s finding the right balance between work and life. A…

Get Our FREE Ultimate Guide to Interviewing for Your First Tech Job Make a plan for landing your dream job with this FREE ebook! This is one part of our series on tech job interview questions. Try these 85+ technical interview questions, too.  While some people might not find job interviews nerve-wracking, for most of…

Get Our Free Ultimate Guide to Coding for Beginners Make a plan for learning the tech skills you need to land a new job with this 60+ page FREE ebook! If you’re looking to change careers or learn new skills to upgrade and enhance your current career, tech skills are as close as it gets…

In a tough job market, you have to do everything you can to stand out from the competition. The internet is chock full of thousands of impressive resumes and creative design portfolios. So how can you catch the eye of a potential employer or client and spotlight yourself as the best choice for your dream…

Get Our FREE Ultimate Guide to Coding for Beginners Make a plan for learning the tech skills you need to land a new job with this 60+ page FREE ebook! I used to think that you were either a web designer or a web developer. Or maybe you were one of those rare unicorns who…

Awhile back, I asked some of Skillcrush’s webinar attendees to tell me what they wanted to do in the next year. Where did they want to go? What would they consider a success story? Did it involve a new career? Improving their design skills? Maybe learning to code as a total beginner? Here are just…

Find Out in Three Minutes (or Less!) If a Career in Tech Is Right for You Our quick and easy quiz will help you pinpoint exactly how to get started in tech, in hardly any time at all. I taught myself the basics of coding from a bunch of online tutorials that have long-since become…

Role models and mentors can have a huge impact on our success when making changes. And since the new year is almost here, I’m sure a lot of you are thinking about making some BIG changes in the next 12 months. (Like, maybe learning some fancy new tech skills? Skillcrush’s FREE 10-Day Coding Bootcamp is…

A few years ago, I got laid off from the magazine job I loved. Suddenly I was living on a weekly unemployment check, wondering what my next steps would be. I had been freelancing on the side for a few months, and decided focusing on that made the most sense! And at the time, I…

Confession: I’m a pretty traditional remote worker. That is, while you can find many of my Skillcrush teammates working remotely from exotic locales—ie. a cafe in Venice a la Cristy or from an RV while road tripping a la Randle, I’m sitting here writing this article on my patio in my pajamas, currently glugging down…

Working remotely sounds like a dream come true for a lot of people. No office politics, working in your PJs, taking an afternoon break for a yoga class, or even working on vacation. Perfect, right? The truth is that remote work is pretty perfect (at least as far as I’m concerned), but it’s not necessarily…

Get Our Free Ultimate Guide to Coding for Beginners Make a plan for learning the tech skills you need to land a new job with this 60+ page FREE ebook! Say what?!? Read moreWhat is the difference between shared & dedicated hosting?Conventional wisdom says that if you want to be a success, you need a…

Confession: I’ve had TERRIBLE portfolios. I’m not being falsely modest. When I think back to some of my old portfolios—I realize that there were some real stinkers there. Think obnoxiously bright yellow background with totally unreadable type. Case studies with paragraph after paragraph that really didn’t SAY anything. A vanilla bio that I didn’t spend…

Is Tech Right for You? Take Our 3-Minute Quiz to Find Out! How’s your Instagram aesthetic? If you’re like me, or the thousands of other users who have realized the social media site’s potential for displaying your artistic endeavors and eye for design, your profile is probably a carefully-cultivated piece of art all on its…