Oarabile Moima

South African technical creative. 🇿🇦 Master of Light 💡. Software and data enthusiast

[Oarabile Moima @oraaabz]

Buffett says to wait on the side lines and go hard when it’s time ✨ ⚡️

[Oarabile Moima @oraaabz]

@kabokablemolefe @rasta_syntaX Ke Mr TikTok himself! 💪

[Kabo Kable Molefe @kabokablemolefe]

The github is not a problem. It's better than most I see, including mine.

You have two problems:
1) No traditional tech background
2) You're not from the favourite institutions of the industry.

The brutal truth is no amount of CV tinkering or improving for ATS is going to help you.

What you need to do is bypass the traditional hoops.

Make a lot of noise. Visibility is the name of the game.

Get optimised profiles on anything and everything you can think of.

Linkedin. Pnet. Indeed. Etc

Then show you are competent or at least eager.

Share your projects. Write up about a bug you fixed. Reach out to people you have no business reaching out to.

The aim is to make noise. Your career cannot coexist with shame. You must be shameless.

Participate in hackathons. Be in people's comments. Go to meet-ups. Join communities.Attend Industry events and the likes.

Then lower the bar. Everywhere you look it will look like people are living nice. Assume you don't deserve it and your path won't be as glamorous or easy.

This means taking anything and everything you can: Intern, graduate program, online internship, MICTSETA/QCTO learnership, 6 week bootcamp, part time at a startup etc.

The 2 problems I mentioned above can be solved by 2 things
1) Being Visible
2) Being Everywhere.

The economy is brutal but this advice works regardless of whatever you choose in Tech.

The above paragraph is important because the advice I gave you here works on a macro level. Things like choosing Software Dev, Cyber etc are micro decisions. And in tech it's easy to get shiny object syndrome. Learning a new stack, getting a new certificate, mastering a new language etc.

Those are micro factors. Without a traditional background ALL of them will be difficult to break into.

Focus on the macro factors you can influence. Which is being visible and being everywhere.

Goodluck gang.

[MABU @MABUwaAI]

At a WITS conference this year, I asked a full symposium who knows what huggingface is, only 10% raised their hands. Kaggle, Zindi. These students just want to pass. No curiosity outside the classroom whatsoever. What do you mean you never used git? Docker? Aowa! 🚮

[KevCare @KgosiKevin]

WeThinkCode students are mopping the floor with normal graduates there by Industry....

I heard this from industry leads 😭

@SuperMata said I talk a lot so this is my last tweet about anything tech 😭

[Oarabile Moima @oraaabz]

@DarkSkinKillua_ Agreed. They really need to step it up

[Oarabile Moima @oraaabz]

Germany like the USA. Will always have to deal with these diversity challenges. Sad man.

[Oarabile Moima @oraaabz]

@MarimaSipho you’re such Good role model bosso! Stay giving us the positive vibes!

[Oarabile Moima @oraaabz]

Claude said there are no options.
Codex took a bit longer but came back with some options.
Ya neh…

[ᴍᴇɴᴀ ♑︎ @menaox2]

شوفوا ردة فعل الطفل بس لان لامين سلم عليه
الاطفال شايفين لامين قدوتهم في الجيل الحالي😭❤️

[Oarabile Moima @oraaabz]

@VendaVendor Eish 🔥 ✨

[Oarabile Moima @oraaabz]

Prayer. 🙏🏾 always number one!

[Ess @EMukumbo]

Happy World Tourism day! I have been fortunate to travel to 23 countries in the world, forever grateful. My prayer, may we all have the opportunity to travel locally and internationally 🙏🏽. Tourism done right can really impact livelihoods and economies

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

✨🇲🇽 Gilberto Mora became the youngest ever player to score for the Mexican National Team at just 17.

Youngest-ever player to debut for Mexico, youngest player in football history to win a senior international title, youngest Mexican ever to play at a World Cup, youngest goalscorer.

[Oarabile Moima @oraaabz]

The best

[Proteas Men @ProteasMenCSA]

It’s Miller Time! 💥

David Miller brings up a fantastic half-century at the Bullring! 😎

Another contribution from the left-hander as #TheProteas continue to build! 🏏

#Unbreakable #PinkDay

[Oarabile Moima @oraaabz]

@JosiahThobejane What did you say at the airport? 😭

[Josh @JoshuaOgundu]

He is right, people say they want to be something because it sounds good but few people show up day in and day out to do the WORK

[Oarabile Moima @oraaabz]

Comedians are so smart.

Damn Druski’s interview mo Diary of a CEO changed my opinion about him. @StevenBartlett o star

[Marnus @marnus_c]

Codex is basically a $100 code reviewer at this point :/ and still running out of usage in +- 4 days

[Shudufhadzo @ShudufhadzoRSA]

Happy Heritage Day to all my Venda people. Preserving where we come from so we never forget who we are