Job interviews are an inescapable reality of the labor market, and unfortunately they’re still an imperfect science. Different companies will have different qualities they’re looking...more.
The evidence supporting the value of employee training is undeniable. Professional learning and growth opportunities increase employee engagement, improve satisfaction, and drive potential. According to...more.
Whether you are currently hiring or currently evaluating your company’s recruitment and onboarding processes, I want to let you in on a little secret: the...more.
Browse the web for long enough and you'll find out about this thing called imposter syndrome. It seems to strike numerous software developers, many of...more.
1995, Taiwan Taiwan was going through a series of education reforms in the '90s. Our teachers started to incorporate new teaching methods inspired by the...more.
In recent years, various code schools have flooded the developer markets with hordes of beginners. These schools have done a great job of introducing people...more.
As kids, we learned to listen and to speak before we learned to read. We started our lives cooing indecipherable nonsense, and slowly adopted the...more.
Before I started working at 8th Light I spent two years at a boarding school teaching German, Economics, and coaching fencing. Although I didn’t study...more.
Since high school, every class I can remember began with a syllabus. On it were due dates of assignments, tests, projects, and readings. These were...more.
At 8th Light, the beginning of an apprenticeship is marked by the signing of a contract. In writing, both the apprentice and the mentor willingly...more.
A recent search on Career Builder, found that out of over 12,000 software development positions, only 120 of them were tagged ”entry level.“ With a...more.
Software apprenticeship programs are popping up all over the place in software. They are a response to the common notion that contemporary academia is not...more.
It is unrealistic to think of even the most master craftsmen as isolated geniuses. Craftsmen do not exist in bubbles, and their interests vary just...more.
In 6th century B.C., during the Spring and Autumn period, China was torn apart by feudal lords and royalty from the declining Zhou dynasty. Amidst...more.
8th Light has an apprenticeship program whereby an 8th Light craftsman will mentor an individual for three months. During that time, the craftsperson becomes responsible...more.