Ask HN: How do you pivot your career when jobs want years of exp in a stack

Re:Ask HN: How do you pivot your career when jobs want years... by moretai on Tuesday September 05, 2017 @08:35AM (#15174493)

How do you typically rate yourself on these scales?

You can't call yourself anything lower than a 9 lest they move on.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you pivot your career when jobs want years... by TurboHaskal on Tuesday September 05, 2017 @11:32AM (#15176209)

I'm not the right person to ask. I've never managed to get a job that involved HR screening phone calls.

I usually rate myself from 7 to 8. Probably 9 if I have 5+ years of experience or I would be confident consulting.

Once I rated my skills as 10 for a technology I know quite a lot about. I was then told that I was showing off and that I need to work on being more humble.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you pivot your career when jobs want years... by milofeynman on Tuesday September 05, 2017 @07:05PM (#15179831)

Ouch. I think I'm starting to see why so many people get jobs through connections rather than cold applying.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you pivot your career when jobs want years... by meric on Wednesday September 06, 2017 @12:44AM (#15181278)

They're testing for Dunning-kruger - either you're below average and you rate yourself a 7 or you're a 10 and you rate yourself an 8.

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