Get Hired - Cory Miller & Courtney Robertson

How to Get a Job in WordPress

ByCourtney Robertson Posted on Updated on

In their debut conversation for Get Hired, Cory and Courtney discuss the kinds of jobs that are available in WordPress and where to find them.

Welcome to the first episode of the Post Status Get Hired podcast! Cory Miller, CEO of Post Status, and Courtney Robertson, Web Designer and Developer Advocate at GoDaddy, have created Get Hired for anyone who wants to start or develop their career in the WordPress space.

Courtney and Cory will walk you through all the phases of job-seeking and career development in the world of WordPress and web tech in general.

Things you will learn in the first Get Hired podcast series:

  • How to decide what you really want to do in your career.
  • The minimum skills and tools you need to master — and how to begin learning them.
  • How to start a project.
  • How to get involved in the WordPress community.

🎙️ Every week Get Hired will help you discover careers in WordPress. Cory Miller and Courtney Robertson launched this podcast series to help anyone who wants to start or develop their career in the WordPress space. They will walk you through all the phases of job-seeking: figuring out what you really want to do in your career, identifying and acquiring the minimum skills and tools you need to master, how to start a project, and how to get involved in the WordPress community. 🐦 Follow @GetHiredWP!

Browse our archives, and don’t forget to subscribe via Castos or by RSS. 🎧

In This Episode of Get Hired:

✉️ Subscribe to the Get Hired Newsletter for the latest WordPress job opportunities from great employers — plus our latest podcast episodes, articles, and career tips. Delivered to you every week!

Get Job Listings, Career Advice, and Skill Development Tips in Your Inbox Every Week.

About Courtney Robertson

Courtney Robertson

Courtney Robertson is currently a Web Designer and Developer Advocate in the GoDaddy Pro team and the co-rep of the Make WordPress Training Team.

Courtney is driven by the desire to empower various schools, non-profit organizations, and businesses in the most unlikely places by training their students, staff, and business community in business and technology to impact their economy and quality of living. Diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging matter greatly to Courtney.

You can contact Courtney on LinkedIn, Twitter, or on her personal website.

About Cory Miller

Cory Miller, CEO of Post Status

Cory Miller is a passionate entrepreneur who believes in finding and maintaining work happiness while challenging you to do great things with your life. In 2008, he started iThemes, a pioneer in building cutting-edge web design software and training, which he grew into a multi-million dollar enterprise, and sold to Liquid Web in 2018. In addition to being a regular leadership speaker, trainer, and writer, he is the co-author of WordPress All-in-One for Dummies (Wiley, 2011).

You can contact Cory on LinkedIn, Twitter, or his personal website.

Similar Posts

Obox releases SalesGenius, a reporting app for Envato markets

ByBrian Krogsgard

Obox has been in the theme and plugin business for many years. But they’ve recently released a web app called SalesGenius that has a variety of tools built in to measure and report sales information for Envato markets. The product looks pretty slick. There’s a free version, but tools like revenue predictions are part of…

Post Status Excerpt (No. 70) — Trust and Distrust: Microaggressions, Active Install Growth Data for Plugins, and Open Source Security
| | | | |

Post Status Excerpt (No. 70) — Trust and Distrust: Microaggressions, Active Install Growth Data for Plugins, and Open Source Security

ByDan Knauss

In this episode of Post Status Excerpt, Dan and Ny take on three issues in the WordPress community that can threaten or impair trust while also revealing how foundational trust and healthy communication are: 1) racism and microaggressions, 2) the sudden removal and uncertain fate of the active install growth chart in the WordPress.org plugin repository, and 3) open source and security. Briefly discussed: emerging US federal policy that aims to secure open-source software. Zero-trust architecture might work well for networked machines, but human relationships and communities need trust.

Inside Jetpack

ByBrian Krogsgard

Sarah Gooding has an interesting long form piece that goes inside Jetpack’s multiple team setup at Automattic, and how they think about development and the structure of the plugin. I found the bit about installs… odd. Automattic is aware of the number of people currently using Jetpack but will not be disclosing that information publicly….

| | |

Is there a self-employment gap in WordPress event attendance?

ByDan Knauss

Drawing on a gender gap at WCUS noticed by Women in WP, Rob Howard thinks there might be a “self-employment penalty” on conference attendance that disproportionately affects women. There’s a lot of speculation in this article, but it’s a subject worth deeper analysis. Whatever the cause, a 2:1 male-to-female ratio in WCUS attendees (or people…