Career Progress

A common saying at GitHub is the following

We use GitHub to build GitHub

This repository aims to use GitHub to build yourself.

This repository has a series of scripts and GitHub Actions aimed at the following:

• Tracking your current work
• Generating a work log/brag document to keep track of what you get done day to day
• Assessing your current progress against your current and next level on your work's career ladder, to see what areas you should be working on
• Creating and tracking a development plan to track progress towards improving career-wise

Set up

To set up this repository for your own career progression, do the following:

• Create labels for this repository under the issues tab of: weekly, quarterly
• Get a PAT for your organization with the following permissions and save it under the Actions secrets as PAT: project, read:discussion, read:org, read:user, repo
• Update the data/config.json file to include your username, your repo name, and company name information (use the company name that your company uses on GitHub (ex: github))
• Upload CSV files with your career ladder to the data folder for your current and your next career level. There's an example already in the data folder. Update the currentCareerLadderFileName and nextCareerLadderFileName file names in data/config.json appropriately.
• Run npm run update-career-progress-file to generate the current level progress and next level progress slash commands. Alternatively this will be done automatically by the update-career-progress-file GitHub Action when csv files are pushed to the data folder.
• Go through each of the workflows to un-comment out the scheduled Actions that you would like to use. The schedule on is currently commented out so that they don't run in this example repository.