{"id":2115,"date":"2021-02-12T10:02:34","date_gmt":"2021-02-12T10:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/soc-employability\/?p=2115"},"modified":"2021-02-17T18:11:30","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T18:11:30","slug":"careers-in-software-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/soc-employability\/2021\/02\/12\/careers-in-software-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Careers in Software Development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">Alumni Q&#038;A panel\n<\/p>\n<p>Are you interested in a career as a software developer\/engineer?<\/p>\n<p>Join us to chat to Kent alumni working as developers and find out about their career journeys, what the role entails and what employers are looking for.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>This event has now taken place. You can view the recording of this event <a href=\"https:\/\/web.microsoftstream.com\/video\/246d64c2-1e48-4847-894d-a775f5e3caca\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>Alumni Panel<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Ashwin Kumar,<\/strong> graduated in 2015 with an MSc in Advanced Software Development. He now works as an Engineering Manager at a FinTech company in Berlin<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Jade Donaldson,<\/strong> graduated in 2019 with a BSc in Computing with a year in industry from Medway. She completed a year in industry at GSK and now works for Deutsche bank as a Software Developer.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Aman Gohel<\/strong>, graduated in 2019 with a BSc in Computer Science with a Year in Industry. He did his year in industry and Cisco in San Francisco and now works as a Software Engineer at H.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Callum Hood<\/strong>, graduated in 2020 with a BSc in Computer Science and now works as a Software Developer at Bestoutcome. He graduated and was searching for a graduate job during the first lockdown of the pandemic so will have some good insights for final years students searching for graduate jobs at this time.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alumni Q&#038;A panel Are you interested in a career as a software developer\/engineer? Join us to chat to Kent alumni working as developers and find &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/soc-employability\/2021\/02\/12\/careers-in-software-development\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5829,"featured_media":2117,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[205105,9658,112,184915,205104,124,5343,205133,205130,205131,205132,178026],"tags":[9658,872,25229,175901,143073,184942,184949,184937,57948,37,818,149978,178057],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/soc-employability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2115"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/soc-employability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/soc-employability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/soc-employability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5829"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/soc-employability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2115"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/soc-employability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2159,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/soc-employability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2115\/revisions\/2159"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/soc-employability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/soc-employability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/soc-employability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/soc-employability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}