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I want to do some volunteer work in IT industry.

Because of a gap, I want to get some volunteer to come back and catch up with my knowledge. Please guide me for the same. #rejoin #career #IT

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G. Mark’s Answer

Get on some job boards and simply state your case and purpose. Getting exposure in your chosen field to a wide audience will almost certainly garner attention from interested parties. Put a list of technologies and areas you'd like to get up to speed in. There may also be areas where you excelled and would like to contribute some of that knowledge to the younger people. Technology is always changing, but some principle hold true. You may find you have more to contribute than you realize. Some of the earlier jobs I had were where I managed younger engineers and programmers. I got the dual benefits of learning indirectly what new trends were catching on while contributing some common sense to folks who knew only the new technologies and very little about the underpinnings of the science. It was tremendously fun.
Thank you comment icon Thank you so much! I found this answer is very helpful. As per your guidance, I will search on different job boards. Devanshi
Thank you comment icon This is really great! I have listed my interested technologies in my mind even I started online learning for that specific technologies but as rejoining workplace I am afraid that can I get chance to head start my career again! But yes thank you so much for your helpful advice, I’ll look into that and try to re-skill myself and try to find better opportunities in future! Thanks again! Devanshi
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Joe’s Answer

Hello Devanshi,

Amy's volunteer sites are perfect fit for coding volunteer work, along with the various coding course. I might also want to add something that benefited me and landed me a great job as a Security Software Engineer at Intuit: Code for fun! I selected a language I found endearing (python) and began to build bots for my chat apps (Discord/Telegram) and standalone ones for specific objectives (web crawler/web scraper). The bots contained containerized code I called "cogs". The cogs did various fun things, like some were meme generators. Some were more serious cogs, like one I quickly built to message me alerts when an item in my shopping list during Cyber Monday and Black Friday dropped in price. Create a GitHub or GitLab account and start building repos to git push code into. This would sharpen your coding skills but also bring delight to any interviewers when you show them you have a GitHub or GitLab repo.

Coding is more of an art to me. Everyone codes differently for the same result. Just be sure to enjoy it or else it'll lead to burn out!

Have fun~
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Amy’s Answer

I'm not sure if you want to do coding, or some other aspect of IT jobs, but there are a ton of organizations out there where you can volunteer to code (e.g. socialcoder.org, donatecode.com). If you want to skill up in this, you could take some online coding courses (like via udemy.com or similar), and then build a coding project for one of these organizations. I've worked with folks who did exactly this to skill up before getting a full time job and it worked for them.

Good luck!
Thank you comment icon Sure thank you so much for your suggestion! I haven’t check the volunteer organization yet but yes will look into that as well as I started some online courses to skill up myself and get ready to re join workplace! Hope it will be helpful in this year 2021 and waiting to get good opportunities! Thanks again! Devanshi
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