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This month’s special guest is Beth Marshall, who joins us on the island to talk about how we can advance our careers as testers, ranging from learning how to build (and measure) your reputation within your team, how to create a test automation portfolio, finding ways in which your experience can help you to give back to the community, and talking about the processes involved with creating workshop content. We talk a bit about TestBash Home (even though it hadn’t happened when we recorded), the importance of celebrating everyday stories more than elevating people to heroes, our thoughts about the new audio-based social media platform Racket, and Beth finally teases an announcement from Neil about his new job (and how it ties in to a previous Testers’ Island episode). Beth’s musical selections (both the ones that made the cut, and the ones that only just missed out) contain some choice gems, ranging from pop delights to motown classics, and she becomes the first person to select a Eurovision entry. Podcast Links: Racket: Beth’s profile Racket: Neil’s profile The Club: Racket recommendations thread Racket: Beth reads the MoT Code of Conduct in eight accents Twitter Spaces The story of Beth’s first internet search TestBash Home 2021 FailQonf TestBash Manchester 2020: Beth Marshall - The Average Tester Beth’s Reputation Audit blog post (with template) The Coders Guild Twitter: Ady Stokes Ministry of Testing Essentials Simon Prior - #MakeATester Testing Peers podcast Ministry of Testing: 99-Minute Workshops YouTube: How Sky Sports hijacked Beth’s third song choice Angie Jones: 10 portfolio projects for aspiring automation engineers Test Automation University Postman TAU: Amber Race - Exploring Service APIs through Test Automation Postman Galaxy conference The Guilty Tester podcast Twitter: Julia Pottinger The Testing Panda - Andy Knight Wikipedia: Illusory superiority (reference to “driving ability” opinions) Beth on Twitter: @Beth_AskHer Regular Links: Listen to and subscribe to this podcast on iTunes and SoundCloud Sign up to be a guest on the show Testers' Island Discs playlist on Spotify Testers' Island Discs reading list on Goodreads Follow us on Twitter