Now I'm a junior how to become senior faster? :)

Question

Hi! Right now I am working in London as the Junior .NET Developer. After graduating (bachelor degree in computer science) I had 3 months internship then 3 months I was working as Graduate Developer and now I am working as Junior .NET Developer. For the last 4 months I have learned more deeply C# ASP.NET MVC patter WebAPI more LINQ using NHIbernate and Entity framework (both with MS SQL +and of course sql language) dependency injection and basics of TDD. Can I get some advice how to become better what I should learn next and how to progress quicker? :) Kris

Vidya Vrat Agarwal · Answer

Sure there are many I would like to suggest you should target for MCTS or Specialist exams Fee varies based on your country you are planning to give exam in Specialist exam http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en-us/specialist-certification.aspx MCTS Exam - http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en-us/mcts-certification.aspx Hope this helps

kris kris · Answer

Thanks for the reply. Do you know if there are any certifications that I could gain and be more payed?

Vidya Vrat Agarwal · Answer

Hi Kris Good to know that you are learning things and you appear to be quick learner You seem to have approx. 10 months experience overall. From my experience I can tell you that there are no quick ways for many thing. But I can surely suggest you few strategies to get recognized and have a better visibility in your organization 1- Deliver clean code and learn best code practices 2- Participate in brain storming sessions and suggest strategies 3- Get your code reviewed and then you learn to review others code 4- Understand the bigger picture and all the layer interactions happening in your application. 5- Things which you mentioned as you have basic knowledge learn bit more. Hope this will help you get going

Now I'm a junior, how to become senior faster? :)