Make content about: Sarah landed her first developer job
Sarah spent years working in a laundry before retraining in coding and landing her first job as a developer.
This story
After spending five years in the UK as an asylum seeker, Sarah struggled to re-enter employment and took a full-time job in a laundry. While raising her young son, she joined a free coding course with CodeYourFuture, persisting through language barriers, heavy workloads and self-doubt. Despite months of rejections during her job hunt, she kept applying and secured her first job offer as a developer.
Where you could take it
Sit down with Sarah and her family to see how they are learning to code together and talk through her route into tech.
Where it happens
London
The charity
- Charity: Refugee Employment Network
- Registration number: 1196168
- Based in: London, England