We have our final cohort wrapping up at 

With a crazy market that is hungry for mid and senior developers but super competitive for juniors, being successful to get your first job requires far more than JavaScript knowledge — you’ll also need to practice and strengthen a variety of nontechnical skills.

For the past six years, I have had the pleasure of meeting many people who are trying to jump-start a new career in programming from an old one that isn't tech-focused. As a result, they tend to disparage everything that they learned in their first career as useless. That is the furthest from the truth. Your early career taught you valuable things that you can leverage in interviews and your day-to-day work. Let's go over some of the soft skills that many jobs teach you that translate well into working as a programmer.