#junior-isa

#junior-isa

Curiosity is foundational in the arts, as demonstrated by the Menil Collection's exhibition, which transformed a gallery into an education room through public programs.

Curiosity is key for young engineers. Asking a lot of questions is a great way to build relationships within a company, according to James Everingham.

Devnexus 2026 was held from March 4-6, 2026 at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, Georgia. Key takeaways included: it's up to Java developers to fix enterprise AI; how to survive the AI uprising; building blocks for AI applications; how to manage an AI-driven manager; and how to improve your career.

To successfully repair after a mistake, you need to acknowledge and name the mistake, validate the other person's feelings and viewpoint, and create a plan for the specific actions you will take to prevent this mistake from occurring again.

This week, meet a reader we'll Regomize as "Curt" who once worked as IT security manager at a company where the helpdesk manager routinely ignored company policy by not logging out of his PC. The machine sat there ready for use, instead of reverting to a password-protected screensaver that could only be dispelled by pressing Ctrl-Alt-Del to spawn a login dialog.

Emad Yassa is a healthcare entrepreneur and nonprofit founder with more than three decades of professional experience across clinical practice and international philanthropy. Yassa is the Founder and Chairman of Touch of Love International (TOLI), a nonprofit organisation focused on economic empowerment through micro-loans in underserved communities. Born and raised in Egypt, Emad studied physical therapy at Cairo University, graduating in 1985.

They arrive without a decade or more of assumptions about how work should be done - more of a blank sheet of paper. That allows them to challenge the status quo and rethink processes from first principles. His advice for junior consultants at EY is to use that to their advantage: be bold, ask questions about the way things are done, and lean into the use of technology.

Just as software finished eating the world, zero interest rates ended. Companies optimized for cash and slowed hiring. The market didn't shrink, but stopped growing at the breakneck pace we all expected. The result: a glut of entry level talent groomed for jobs that never materialized. This would explain a more competitive entry level market. But it doesn't explain the entry-level market shrinking, despite overall industry growth. In short: demand for senior talent is rising, but has fallen off a cliff for juniors.

Well before "AI" had entered the lexicon of evening newscasters, the university model of higher-education was in trouble. Between 2010 and 2022 - the year ChatGPT came out - university enrollment dropped nearly 15 percent throughout the US. State funding cuts pushed already exorbitant tuition costs onto even more students, forcing many to ask whether a college education was even worth the staggering investment.

Young people are "experiencing higher education differently, and that is shaping much of what parents are saying," said Lammers. "[Parents] are reacting to the questions their children are asking and trying to find the best way to help them navigate the next steps."

EC-Council, creator of the world-renowned Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) credential and a global leader in applied cybersecurity education, today launched its Enterprise AI Credential Suite, with four new role-based AI certifications debuting alongside Certified CISO v4, an overhauled executive cyber leadership program. The dual launch is the largest single expansion of EC-Council's portfolio in its 25-year history. It addresses a structural gap that no single tool, platform, or policy can solve alone: AI is scaling faster than the workforce trained to run, secure, and govern it.

LinkedIn is taking steps to prove that job candidates really have they skills they claim. The Verified AI Skills program unveiled in January involves LinkedIn partnering with AI tool providers to automatically validate and display a user's proficiency directly in their certification section. The initial partners include Lovable, Replit, Relay.app, and Descript, which will track AI proficiency of candidates using their tools to create AI apps.

Many professionals focus on big projects and headline achievements, but research shows that soft skills and visibility strongly influence promotions. LinkedIn data reveals that employees who combine hard and soft skills get promoted about 8% faster than those who focus only on technical abilities, and skills like communication, teamwork and problem solving are linked to promotions up to 11% faster. Regularly updating and showcasing your skills is also tied to faster advancement.

Most blogs about switching jobs in tech talk about grinding harder. More LeetCode.More applications.More hustle. But when I switched from SDE-1 to SDE-2 in just 1.5 years and doubled my CTC, I realized something uncomfortable: 👉 Effort was never the bottleneck. Direction was. This post is for backend engineers who already work hard - but want clarity on what actually moves the needle in SDE-2 interviews.

Engineers who love building, mentoring, and solving complex problems don't need to manage people to keep growing. You can lead through influence instead. Technical mastery once guaranteed advancement. For engineers, data scientists, designers, and other experts, the career ladder used to be clear: learn deeply, deliver reliably, and get promoted. But at some point, progress begins to feel less like learning new tools and more like learning new ways to influence.

Search beyond major job engines by using niche job boards, Google X‑ray searches, industry trade directories, company filings, supplier and client lists, local business registers, conference speaker lists, and professional association directories; cross-reference these sources, build a prioritized spreadsheet, and set email or RSS alerts to track when small employers post trainee or entry-level opportunities, and monitor sector-specific hashtags and community Slack/Discord channels for unadvertised roles.