Explaining Application Architecture to IT Recruiters

Description

This course is the first in a series of technical dissertations specifically geared to an IT Recruiter. So much of the training for IT Recruiters is based upon the rote memorization of complex terms and dry definitions. From the time I did my first technical interview in 1997, I have made an avocation of distilling technical information for the benefit of all IT Recruiters.

I have spent the last 25 years with a foot straddling two disparate realms: IT Recruiting and Software Engineering. I bring a unique blend of insight and experience into providing training so recruiters can engage with technologists more effectively. I cut my teeth in the mid 90s at an IT staffing firm and started a SaaS firm that offers a technical interview platform for Recruiters in 2016.

My students will get the benefit of my blended professional heritage.

The objective of all of the training material we publish on here is to cultivate something we call “Conversational Competence”, the innate ability to draw upon a pool of internal knowledge that lets you insert technical analysis or interrogation into any conversation with a technical counterpart.

This course is the bedrock for application developers and we give you a thorough overview on the evolution of Application Architecture. You get so many buzzwords thrown at you as a recruiter - SOA, Object Orientation, Frameworks - but you never really acquired a gut-level understanding of them. You will come away from this course with a depth of insight and confidence that will let you readily engage with developers.

We will walk you through what may seem like an intimidating jungle of terms and give them a context to which you can easily relate. We compare N-Tier Application Architecture to sections of a car. We compare Object Orientation by comparing it to different parts of a house.

We will give you a depth of insight that will let you spontaneously generate technical qualification questions when talking to developers. Imagine speaking to a developer and just confidently asking them to define Polymorphism or Encapsulation and you will know exactly what to look for in an answer.

Get ready to have the shroud of mystery related to technical subjects unveiled in a way you have never experienced before.

What You Will Learn!

• Students will learn the fundamentals of how applications are designed and the chain of evolution of where things started
• You will understand the fundamentals of application architecture, from the mainframes that got us started to N-tier design to the services approaches
• We break down advanced concepts like Object Orientation, Service Oriented Architecture and Microservices
• Find out how to understand Data within applications and how XML levels the playing field
• We created the training content so you can easily turn some of the slides into a source to generate technical screening questions
• This course is designed to cultivate something we call "Conversational Competence", the innate ability to inject technical insight into your conversations

Who Should Attend!

• This course is for anyone who takes technical recruiting seriously and wants to have more confidence in engaging with technical audiences.

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