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Re:Ask HN: How to attract perm Snr Engs when the contract ma... by sanitycheck on Thursday May 06, 2021 @09:51AM (#27063177)
> I don't understand this. How can someone trust you that you picked up some new skill if you have no experience in it. Do you put it on your resume anyways? How can somone even pickup software sales ( for example) on their own free time.

Well, for anything which produces tangible output you can show off (I'm obviously thinking of programming) it's fairly straightforward to prove you can do it. Software sales? Yeah, no, I couldn't learn that in my spare time - good point.

Personally a jump to marketing and sales sounds roughly as enticing as the time I was offered either redundancy or a new role as a Lotus Notes dev, but I'm happy it floats your boat.

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Re:Ask HN: How to attract perm Snr Engs when the contract ma... by dominotw on Thursday May 06, 2021 @10:00AM (#27063306)
> it's fairly straightforward to prove you can do it.

How? What do you put on your resume ? I am genuinely curious. Forget about sales, how do you prove that you can now implement their machine learning projects.

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Re:Ask HN: How to attract perm Snr Engs when the contract ma... by learc83 on Thursday May 06, 2021 @10:27AM (#27063755)
Contractors can be let go immediately with almost no repercussions, so the bar for engaging them is much lower than the bar for hiring a full-time employee.

When I was contracting, companies would generally contract me for a week or 2 based on nothing but me telling them I could do something. If I delivered on that initial result, they'd come back for more.

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Re:Ask HN: How to attract perm Snr Engs when the contract ma... by fallingknife on Thursday May 06, 2021 @11:08AM (#27064344)
How do you get into that market?
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