This is a talk about the adventure and challenges of switching careers from two different fields: medical and WordPress. The route had a lot of unique challenges, colorful characters and transformative life scenarios.
Category: Careers
Hiring Fresh Graduates to WordPress Content Marketing Jobs – Opportunities, Challenges, and a Way
Content marketing has been a key and highly influential marketing strategy employed by WordPress businesses for a long time. In fact, it’s a pivotal aspect of any online business’s growth strategy.
But if you don’t have a robust content marketing team, then you won’t be able to employ the technique and reap its fruits. So, how can you hire content marketers and start content marketing for your WordPress business? One of the most efficient ways, I believe, is to hire fresh college graduates, train them, and build your dream team of content marketers.
Doing so offers you the greatest opportunity of connecting fresh minds with WordPress jobs and broadly WordPress open-source movement. Second, you create opportunities for the youth in your town or the globe. Third, you’ll get unused brains to study and market your products. The list can go on.
However, there are challenges too. First of all, you must be able to train the interns. Time, effort, and expertise are a must for that.
But you can manage if you really want to succeed. I’ll share some real examples of such internship-based content marketing projects and offer a path you can follow to get started.
Code Isn’t Your Only Way Into Tech
As more and more of our lives rely on the internet and it’s associated technology, more and more people are needed to lead and work in that space. Currently, much of the emphasis in tech careers is on programming and software engineering. But not everyone likes or wants to learn how to code! In this talk, Allie will discuss the various paths that are available to you if you want to work in tech, but don’t want to ever have to touch a line of code.
Disillusioned at Age 50: Turning a 10-year WordPress hobby into a successful new career as a woman who doesn’t code
After 30 years of employment in the nonprofit world with an impenetrable glass ceiling, enough was enough. I took my background in sales, marketing, and customer service and mixed it with my hobbyist experience running viral WordPress websites in the entertainment field. The result: if you can demonstrate the value of your skillset, be open to learning every day, and walk away when it’s the wrong fit, then there is a place for you in WordPress without knowing code. A how to on changing your life, and a road map for agencies looking to get out of echo chambers and diversify their teams.
Non-Technical Career Options in the WordPress Market
I have been working with the WordPress community since 2012. Whenever people hear about WordPress, people think it is developing features or just writing blog posts. I want to change this stereotyping mindset by sharing my journey, experience and knowledge around the following topics-
- Technical writing
- Content marketing
- Digital advertising
- Product management
- Project management
- Customer service
- Community management
- Partnership management