How I Became a Tech Conference Speaker as a Newbie & How You Can Do It Too

Thank you Vidit Goel for your kind comment.

" I'd love to know how you managed to balance your job search, learning, and community involvement. " -> I combined "learning" with the "community involvement", meaning every time I was learning something, I would find a way to share it on twitter, upload it on github and even write an article about it... I'd ask for feedback or if people had similar projects as mine I'd have a look and comment on their work. (All the above are pretty much things I still do). As far as finding a job, you have to have a system. Don't spend more than 1-1.30 hours per day looking for jobs/applying because after some time you'll get tired and you won't be focused on what you're applying to. With that said: focus first on the jobs you really want. Be patient as some companies have a very long process. Keep a Excel sheet with all your jobs & interviews. Last but not least, ask your network (even if it's small) if they have any jobs or if they can propose you to a company (but don't put pressure on them). I hope these helps.

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Thank you, I'm glad you liked it.

Thank you so much Julia!

These two sites are perfect! With smaller international conferences you may have a bigger chance because they will want their speaker line up to look international so they may give a shot to beginner speakers. I know of two people that did that!

Hey Akos.

The meetups can be a great start but if you are in a location that doesn't have a lot of meetups it's hard. For example, I live in a small city and even today, we don't have many meetups in my field...

Another tip would be to add in your topic on these 2 platforms as many details as you can. There is a chance the organizers won't select you because they don't understand your topic or the value of it, but if you have many details then they'll easily understand your passion and your knowledge around it.

Good luck Akos.

Thanks to both of you for the input Eleftheria Batsou and Karol Horosin 🙌 I'm going to sign up for these two sites – as soon as I think of a topic. I've written about so many things but now, as I think about picking a main topic, I have no idea 😅

Ákos Kőműves The Ultimate Full Stack Framework for 2024: Remix and snapshot testing look like good bases for talks, the second even better

Thanks Karol Horosin! I wrote an entire series on testing with RTL and Jest it's soo good. 😊

Thank you 😇

Thank you so much for your nice comment!

Thank you 😊