You want to work in tech, but you have no idea how
to code. What jobs can you get? Well, in today's
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I'm really excited to make this video for you
today because I was in the tech industry for more
than 12 years. And there are so many
misconceptions about jobs in tech, such as you
have to know how to code or you have to be
superduper technically savvy. And that's not
actually true for all roles. So in today's video,
I'm going to break down career paths in tech that
don't require any coding. Now, I know there are
several other videos like this on YouTube, the
thing that's going to be different about this is
that I'm not going to focus on any jobs that
require any specialty training, with maybe a
couple of exceptions. But it won't be like
technical training. Because while there are job
that don't require coding, like user experience
and technical writing, these aren't necessaril
something that anyone can just walk in and d
there is going to be more training or mor
education involved. So in today's video, I will b
focusing on jobs that you probably already are o
that track. And it's just a matter of getting i
there for each of these roles I'm going to jus
tell you a little bit about the role is where i
can go. And I will mention earning potential. Bu
I'm not going to nail down any specific salarie
just because depending on where you are, and you
career, and whether you're in B2B or B2C, like th
salaries can look a little bit different. So d
keep that in mind. But I will mention it, an
especially denote the ones that have the highes
earning potential because I know the necessar
information.
Now if that sounds good, if you are ready to find
your tech job without coding, tap that like
button, and let's jump right into it.
The first tech job that doesn't require any coding
also happens to have what in my opinion is one of
the lower barriers of entry to work in tech, and
that is sales. Now there's a lot of different
rules in sales from sales development to becoming
an account executive. And of course, there is
leadership roles beyond that I probably don't
really need to explain sales to you. But in the
tech industry, you will generally find sales
people in a b2b situation, which is business to
business, you're selling software solutions that
other businesses are going to use and you are
going to be championing the sale for your
prospective customers. This can be a very
collaborative role. And there's a lot of different
teams that as a salesperson you might get to
interact with. Plus, in all likelihood, you're
going to be dealing with some senior level people,
and hopefully some really cool companies. Of all
the jobs that don't require any coding sales
definitely has a highest income potential. I know
people making hundreds and hundreds of thousands
of dollars in technology sales right now. Now, if
you're in sales, and you love sales, you can
continue growing down that path into regional
leadership, VP sales and eventually become a chief
revenue officer or CRO. Or you can use sales as a
stepping stone. Again, I think that this is a
great way to get into technology, especially if
you're brand new or early in your career. Because
I think a lot of the things that you learn in
sales are really crucial career success blocks
that you can apply in different career tracks from
sales, you can go into things like project
management, and marketing into customer success.
There's so many different things. And I'll touch
on several of those roles. Just coming up here.
The next tech job that doesn't require any coding
is marketing. Now, this is pretty broad, because
really what I just told you was an entire
department, there are so many different roles
within marketing itself. You can be in brand
marketing, digital marketing advertising, which
isn't really hundred percent marketing. But that's
conversation for another day. But there are so
many different areas that are superduper
interesting within marketing. Marketing is how
people know about your business and what generates
leads. This also happens to be one of those career
paths intact, that doesn't require any coding but
also has a pretty fast track in most markets to a
six figure salary. Now, as I already mentioned,
there are so many different career paths within
marketing, but it can also be a trajectory into
something different as well. And honestly, most of
the marketers that I have worked with have stated
marketing, but I also have worked with marketers
that have transitioned into sales into customer
success and even into professional services or
eventually into their own consulting roles.
The next tech job that you can get even if you
have absolutely no coding skills in business
development. So this is partnerships. I find a lot
of people don't know what business development is
until they've actually worked in a tech company.
So let me explain this role is focused on building
partnerships. Partnerships are everything in the
tech industry and can really make or break the
success and the rapid success of a company.
Especially if you're considering working for a
company that is focused on b2b and is a third
party to their platform. There is definitely been
a trend in For the past 10 years to either be a
platform or be something that plugs into the
platform and into other things within that
platform, it's a, you know, very, very entwined
industry. Now, the thing that I love most about
business development is that it really does go to
my motto of success is not solitary. So it gives
you the opportunity to cultivate different
partnerships, and find mutually beneficial
relationships within the business world. So sales
can feel a little bit competitive, where business
development feels like we all should be working
together also has pretty good earning potential
here as well. Now that we've spoken about a few
different roles that are really about growing the
business and bringing in customers, let's talk
about some of the roles that service to customers
once they've signed that dotted line. And that
brings me to my fourth job that doesn't require
coding in the tech industry.
And that is customer success. This, my friends, is
my old 'hood, so I have a lot to say about this
one, the job of customer success is to make sure
that your customer is successful with your
solution. It's making sure that things are well
implemented while adopted and that the customer is
going to stay around for a long time and hopefully
become an advocate for your company. And for the
product. I personally feel like the most exciting
thing about working Customer Success right now,
though, is that it's still a fairly new roll. Like
within the past 10 years, this is something that
has just really been exploding and customer
success had can have a really big impact on
revenue retention, as well as revenue expansion
for a company. But since it is still a fairly new
role, it actually lacks maturity. So at different
companies, it can be different things. And because
this is still a new practice, I think that there
is a huge amount of opportunity as it is actually
established. And the best execution models are
determined. Who knows, maybe you're going to be
the person who figures it all out and also know
the customer success is one of those jobs that
does pretty quickly get into the six figures in
major markets. Now because this is a new industry,
I really think that the growth path for customer
success is something that we still don't totally
understand because I think there's a lot of jobs
in customer success management that actually don't
really exist yet. That said aside from just
rolling into you know, customer success director
head of customer success VP of customer success, a
lot of what Customer Success managers do includes
project management, sales and working with product
which makes those three areas of the business very
natural growth path for Customer Success managers.
The next tech job that doesn't require any coding
is also one that I have personal experience with.
And that is training. Now obviously, when we build
a product, people need to know how to use the
product. And while you can come and hang out on
YouTube, most companies b2b and b2c have some
level of training available for their customers to
be successful with our product. However, in the
b2b industry, you might also have training as a
service or task. And this is actually a monetized
team that's set to be a profit center. companies
may have training teams that are just creating
training, they can be creating training
certifications, or they can be doing customer
engagements as part of a professional services
team. Now, I honestly thought that I could have
lived in training forever. I absolutely loved it.
And I think it's why I'm on YouTube doing what I
do now. But when I actually transition, I
transitioned into customer success because of so
much of what Customer Success management does is
actually training and enablement for customers.
But you can also move into an l&d organization as
part of people operations, or into project
management is where I find most people land. I'm
speaking of that, let's move into the next job,
which is project management In terms of tech jobs
that don't require any coding. So project managers
may be focused on internal projects or external
projects, depending on you know, where you work,
what the actual job is, their ultimate
responsibility is to help oversee a project to
make sure that it is done on time, on budget and
up to quality. So making sure that all of the
deliverables of the project have been met. Quite
honestly, a lot of times this can feel like you're
herding cats. And on a day to day basis, what
you're really doing when you're in project
management is you are working cross functionally
to get shit done. Project Managers have a lot of
ownership without necessarily having authority
over the people that are working with them as
resources on the project, which means they either
become or they already are very good influencing
others to make sure that the work is actually
completed. Now there's a couple of growth paths
for project managers if your specialty is an
external project, so you can enter a professional
success leadership or you may end up transitioning
into program management or into product
management. I also know several project managers
who actually ended up in sales. And again, in
terms of earning potential This is another high
earning in terms of non technical jobs in the tech
industry. So if you want to be well into those six
figures, project management can be a great track
for you. And I'll also note that project
management is also a great job if you want to be a
contractor or consultant at any point in your
career and they tend to command a very high hourly
rate, the next tech job that doesn't require any
coding I'm going to put an Asterix on because
quite honestly, at some companies, it does require
coding
and it is product management, a product manager
really owns the roadmap for the product. So they
are working with a bunch of different teams to
figure out what needs to go in what's going to
have impact what's going to have ROI, really what
needs to happen with a product, they typically are
working with a bunch of internal teams, and in
many cases are even customer facing in order to
get that much sought after feedback to make sure
that their product rocks. Now the requirement to
have technical understanding, or maybe even some
coding experience, as I already mentioned, ranges
from company to company, no matter what having
some technical understanding is genuinely going to
be helpful as a product manager. Depending on what
product you're managing. If you're managing a
technical product, it is going to be something
that is very helpful. However, if you're in a tech
company, you can also be a product manager for a
service, which is going to require probably no
technical understanding in order to be effective
at that this is also one of the non coding roles
that can manage the highest salaries intact. Now,
this is also a role that you don't just graduate
and become a product manager, there is generally
going to be a pathway into it. And I find that
most product managers tend to move up instead of
away from product management, the next tech job
that doesn't require any party is working in
finance. And this is actually what I was doing
when I very first graduated from university. So
again, another one that I have a little bit of
experience with, of course, tech companies have
books to manage. So they need financial
professionals who are going to step in and do
that, again, there's so many different roles
within the finance team. But what you'll actually
find is those roles are the same as they would be
in any industry. And this makes it very easy to
transition into the next tech job is actually the
one that really got me started in the tech
industry, even though it wasn't specifically at a
tech company.
And that is in recruiting. Now, recruiting i think
is a really great entry point, there is generally
not a lot of prerequisites to get a role in
recruiting. If you are considering recruiting as
an option, I do just want to highlight that there
are two different kind of entry points, you can go
directly and work in house which quite honestly
can be a little bit more challenging. Most of the
recruiters that I know actually start off in a
recruiting agency. And really, you can do both of
those and be a technical recruiter and working in
an agency you can really make bank however, being
an in house recruiter can provide you more
financial stability. So there is a little bit of a
trade off as a recruiter your career path, you can
obviously continue down and keep on growing within
recruiting. But if you look at your transition out
where most recruiters generally transition when
they do is into the next noncoding tech job,
and that is People Operations. So this is
basically a fancy way of saying human resources.
Obviously, tech companies are battling for talent,
and they want to make sure that they retain it.
And people are successful when they do come in the
door. And this is where people operations comes
in. And this is another function which has a lot
of different opportunities within it. And you can
be a talent development manager, you can be a
human resources business partner, you can ascend
through human resources as well is to cultivate
the talent that you have, as well as to make sure
that your company is complying with all of the
laws surrounding working with people and stuff
like that. The funniest thing about roles in human
resources is when you talk about career paths,
they're usually the people that are actually
setting out the career paths, obviously, there is
so much to do within human resources that you can
really explore in there and grow within. But when
I have worked with people that have transitioned
out of people operations and into different
capacities within the business, it is often within
business operations. So now you know what all the
different options are in terms of working in tech
without having any coding experience. The thing
that you're probably wondering now is how do we
get a job in tech without any tech experience. And
that is exactly what I'm going to be covering in
my next video. So if you haven't already, click
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not want to miss out. Now as you consider all of
these different potential career paths for you in
the tech industry that don't require any coding.
One thing that I definitely recommend that you do
is take time to get to know people that are in
that job to get a better understanding to see if
it really is the right job for you. And one of the
ways that you can do that is by leveraging
LinkedIn and my non gross guide to networking. I
want you to go and check that out right now so
that you can dive a little bit deeper start
building out your network, because ultimately
that's going to be something that also helps you
get your first job in tact.
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