Job Shadowing Opportunities
Hello everybody. As part of my schools grade 11 syllabus, we are required to arrange job shadowing and a work area that we might be interested in. As such, I am wondering if there are any developers in Johannesburg that are willing to allow for myself, and probably a few others, to job shadow for three days (dates not yet confirmed) in July. If there are any, please provide me with a means to contact and arrange the dates with you.
Thank you very much.
Thank you very much.
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I can't guarantee that you'd find a shadow opportunity, but perhaps presenting yourself at the physical meetup, might help you get an audience with people that would reconsider.
Showing a genuine interest in the trade can be good prior to your request. In other words, if you are already keen on making games and have a prototype or pet project to show. It will show that you're very serious about game dev. and that might pull some attention.
Bring said prototype to the meetup and feel free to present it for play testing as well.
Don't be shy to show what you've got. It's a very relaxed event for showcasing all skill levels. experienced, entrylevel, hobbysit or proffessional.
I'm guessing here, but if your entire grade is required to do some shadowing... there may be quite a lot of shadow requests popping up.
My recommendation is that you present the shadowing as a unified structured group.. three or four pupils as one shadow.
That way, if somebody is willing to offer you the chance then multiple students can benefit at the same time.
It's just an idea.
I wish I could help more. I'd love to offer a chance to let students shadow but I'm just not quite there yet.
good luck.
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