You will need to discuss this in class, make sure to do your interview before the class day.

You will be applying for jobs soon! Part of that process is doing interviews.

Schedule a mock behavioural interview with a volunteer. You can ask for interviews on Slack in #cyf-interview-practice.

Tell the interviewer you want to practice a behavioural interview. Tell them the kind of job you want to be applying for (what kind of role, and what kind of company? Perhaps a software engineer at a finance company? Or a backend engineer at a start-up? Choose for yourself).

Do the mock interview, and get feedback about how you could do better next time.

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When loading the populated data, the user Swiz’s second bloom (which reads “Let’s get some #SwizBiz love!!”) has weird hashtag links.

If you click the word “#SwizBiz” it takes you to an empty page which doesn’t show any blooms. I would expect at least the bloom I clicked the link in to be shown, and also perhaps any others containing the hashtag.

On the other hand, in their other bloom (“New album dropping at midnight! Pre-save now! #SwizBiz”), clicking on “#SwizBiz” does take you to exactly what I expect - a page showing blooms containing #SwizBiz including the one I clicked from.

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👤 When I click on hashtags, the page flashes blank on and off

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• User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/134.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
• URL: #/hashtag/do

Presenting information is really important. You need to practice giving demos, and each week build on the feedback you got the previous week.

At CYF we expect you to demo your work to the class. You must have many opportunities to practice how to clearly and simply explain your work to others. This is really important both for interviews and for getting promoted later on.

Attend the SDC demo sessions this week during the saturday class, and give a presentation about a topic of your choosing.

Also try to give some feedback to one of your fellow trainees during this session on their demo.

Aim for a 5 minute demo. But your demo must be at least 1 minute and at most 10 minutes long. Check out our guide about presenting.

You only need to give one of these demos every two weeks. You can give extra demos in addition whenever you want more practice.

Mentored coding is an excellent way to develop programming and communication skills. It is often much easier to work through something when working on something 1-to-1. It is also helps you to prepare for technical interviews when you may need to code in front of other people or explain your solution to a problem.

Pick one piece of programming you’re doing (we recommend a Codewars kata) and team up with a volunteer to work on it together.

See the mentored coding guide for guidance.

Book time with your assigned education mentor for this.

Remember, as a learner, you will need to explain your thought process, plan out what to do, write the code and check it works

You will get feedback from your mentor during the session. If there are specific topics you would like to receive feedback on then let them know at the start of the session so they know what to focus on.