12 Steps to Boost Your Market Value

Your market value is not your salary. It is what the market would pay you tomorrow, and most engineers have never tested it. Twelve steps in three phases: know what you are offering, build the network that hears about it, then negotiate. First delivered at ELC meetup #37, built on 3,400+ mentoring sessions, and the outcome is binary: hired, or boosted where you are.

You walk out with all twelve steps named in the order they have to go in, plus the Developer Value Calculator, so you know your number before anyone else names it.

First delivered live at ELC meetup #37 in May 2026, built from patterns across 3,400+ mentoring sessions rather than one success story stretched into a framework. Twelve steps, three phases, in an order that matters: what you offer once the job title is stripped away, who needs to hear about it, then the negotiation itself.

The room leaves with a sequence, not a mood board. The outcome is binary: hired somewhere else, or with a clearer case for being paid more where you already are.