Introducing The Skills Pattern Analysis (SPA): A Framework for Strategic Tech Career Planning
A step-by-step guide to mapping your career path through Job Requirements Analysis
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A little experiment you can try:
Whenever you find a position you like (location/company/role/perks), do this:
Check the minimal requirements listed there.
Copy the name of the position's title (example: Software Engineer - Backend at Google) and the relevant part of the job post's description in a document.
Do this for all the positions you like / would like to have / are interested in.
After a while, when you have a few of them, check which of the "required skills" are overlapping and often coming out.
Use this to direct your career: go in the direction that'll get you these skills.
Here’s how I used this method and how it benefited me
When I came up with it, I was mostly targeting roles I liked in big tech Zurich and Europe.
Implementing the method, I noticed some skills were recurring in my notes: