Kieran Gilmurray shares his RPA knowledge and how you can become closer to be an RPA developer unicorn. As a new thing I try to react and comment the interview afterwards to make the entire thing more dynamic.

Go follow Kirean. I can not reccomend it too much, as you will get great insights in the RPA industry:
💼 Kieran Gilmurray LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/kierangilmurray/

📚 Books [AFFILIATE]:
Learning Visual Basic .NET – https://geni.us/v6ffI
Robotic Process Automation Projects – https://geni.us/ST9o

You could also watch:
🔵 RPA Recruiter: My best Tips & Tricks – https://youtu.be/arrJ-SSDx-k
🔵 RPA Challenge (WORLD RECORD) – https://youtu.be/_VOg2LvIXCM
🔵 UiPath REFramework Beginners Tutorial – https://youtu.be/sJD1k5p5Edc

0:00 Intro

01:30 20 signs of a Truly Exceptional RPA developer
Kieran wrote a very nice article about the key habits, that is needed as an RPA deceloper. Since 1988 Kieran has been building robots giving him a huge experience. He only saw a few RPA developer unicorns and in the interview, he will help you become closer to be one.

04:25 Key Habit
The key habit of an RPA developer is having a strategic view. You need to understand, what the business needs and the RPA code is useless, if you don’t understand the, who you are automating for.

05:51 Citizen developers
Can anyone become an RPA developer? No, if you are asking Kieran. Logic, coding skills etc. are needed, but without these you can still be a very good business analyst. Kieran mentions the 70/30 rule for an RPA developer.

08:15 Improve as a technical RPA developer
The best advice is to talk to the business and understand the organization, if you want to improve in the non-technical RPA developer area.

09:54 How to improve the chances of an RPA job
Do all sorts of jobs to learn something there. Remember to listen to everyone. Call people and ask for their experience. Volunteer.

13:32 Curious, adaptable and excited by change
Don’t be fixed on e.g. your Python code. Look at a lot of other solutions, not only RPA tools (Machine Learning, OCR etc.). RPA is a real career opener, since you are learning a lot of technologies.

15:45 Machine Learning and AI
Why you should learn Machine Learning and AI as an RPA developer.

17:45 Data
Data is the real goal. If you can use the data, you get as an RPA developer, to improve other areas in the organization.

18:34 RPA business cases
Kieran talks about, how important it is with a profitable RPA business case.

20:58 Excellent communication, interpersonal and influencing skills
You’re engaging with RPA developers all over the world and therefore you need great interpersonal and communication skills.

23:19 Coding skills
Become an Excel expert! Every organization uses Excel and you can integrate Excel very easily in your RPA processes. In addition call VBA scripts. Each RPA product has a coding language become behind them, so learn the language of your tool. A nice place to start is .NET.

26:34 Learn another RPA tool
You should go out and learn another RPA tool. Take one of the TOP 50 tools.

30:42: Power Automate Desktop
It was hard to make Kieran recommend one RPA tool in front of the other, but pressured a bit he mentions Power Automate Desktop and here is why.

32:05 RPA books
Why you should read RPA books. Kieran promised to make a list of RPA books, let me know, if you want that, I make him come back and get us that list in the comments 😀 I will recommend my favourite two RPA books. It goes back to, what Kieran talks about in why we should learn coding and how to understand the business. Can you recommend any books? Doesn’t have to be RPA specific.

36:36 Agile and/or project management skills (e.g. Scrum Master, PMP, PRINCE2)
Why you should learn agile and/or project management skills as an RPA developer.

42:00 Documentation
Why it’s important to document as an RPA developer. It doesn’t have to be written documentation (PDD’s), but it can be videos as well. A good advice is to start the screen recorder and just comment on, what you are doing.

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