When You’re Here, You’re Family: The Culture of Grand Circus
March 19, 2019Everyone knows that “Workplace Culture” is all the rage these days. Culture is a buzzword used to apply to businesses and their values, attitudes and more –– describing the overall experience an employee would be expecting when coming into the work environment. However, “culture” is a little bit different when it comes to a bootcamp Read more →
Our Top Resources for Negotiating a Raise or Promotion
March 13, 2019What’s more daunting than a career change into a new industry? Not much, except maybe the sneaking suspicion that you have earned a raise – and you’re not sure how to go about getting it! With raises and general financial talk often being a bit taboo, we know finding good, reliable information can be difficult. Read more →
Tips for Filling out a Coding Bootcamp Application
March 7, 2019Are you wondering how to make your application stand out? Curious what our Admissions team looks for? Our hope is this blog can send you in the right direction in creating the best application possible! Our coding bootcamps prepare students for a complete career change into tech. Many of our students start in entry-level Read more →
Improve Your Emotional Intelligence, Improve Your Job Search
March 4, 2019The thing about searching for a job is that it’s a ton of work, right? Now, add all of the interpersonal work – small talk at the front desk before an interview, phone screens, in-person interviews, a networking event, checking in with your accountability partner, another interview, another networking event…there are a lot of interactions Read more →
Emotional Intelligence 101: Impacting Your Job Search
March 1, 2019So many things go into your job search – not the least of which is how you present yourself and how you interact with others. For many, this can be the most daunting part of looking for a new job – it’s not honing the skills that’s scary, it’s wondering whether or not you nailed Read more →
Learn to Code In Beer City: Announcing a Free Workshop Series
February 11, 2019Learn to Code. In Beer City USA! Grand Circus is serious about our core values. It’s part of our interview process for new employees and contractors. We share them with prospective students during Info Sessions and our Intro to Coding workshops. During our bootcamp orientation we make sure all students understand what our values are Read more →
Announcing our Partnership with Seamless IoT
January 25, 2019Since opening the Grand Rapids campus in 2017, the Grand Circus team has been focused on talent development for local employers: providing students with the technical and soft skills that West Michigan employers need to effectively grow their businesses. At the same time we are always looking for opportunities to support and partner with organizations Read more →
Meet Samantha, Digital Marketer Turned Developer
January 22, 2019Currently at United Shore as a Software Developer I, Samantha Mazzola enrolled in Grand Circus after working in the marketing field. Samantha has a bright and infectious warm personality, which made her stand out at Grand Circus, even earning her the DEVELOP(her) scholarship. Samantha encountered and overcame many obstacles during bootcamp, through her perseverance and willingness Read more →
Programming Languages: Which Should I Learn?
December 5, 2018Interested in learning to code? Determining which of the many languages to learn can be challenging, but we’re here to help! For our potential career changing students: we encourage making a list of companies you ideally would like to work for and research what language they hire for. However, once you learn one language, it’s Read more →
Mastering the Coding Bootcamp Interview
November 20, 2018You’ve done it. After weeks of careful research and planning you’ve finally completed your application to a coding bootcamp and taken the next step on your journey to a career in tech. But as you finally build up the courage to hit submit, you can’t help but think: “what’s next?” While the application is an Read more →