Ask HN: How do you start a new career with minimal qualifications?

Re:Ask HN: How do you start a new career with minimal qualif... by throwawaaaaay17 on Monday November 22, 2021 @10:10AM (#29307095)

YMMV, but this worked for me. Find an industry you want to work in. Find a small but quickly growing company in that industry. Email the CEO, try to make yourself look as relevant as you can to that company and ask to get coffee. Come prepared with a pitch of what you can do for them.

If you reach out to CEOs directly, you skip HR, so you skip profile screens. Reaching out to medium-large company CEOs doesn't work because they have assistants/are too busy.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you start a new career with minimal qualif... by germinalphrase on Monday November 22, 2021 @01:55PM (#29310223)

How does someone identify a “find a small but quickly growing company” without already understanding the industry?

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Re:Ask HN: How do you start a new career with minimal qualif... by JCharante on Monday November 22, 2021 @02:41PM (#29310762)

I'm guessing you'll need to know a little bit so that you can sell yourself during the coffee talk. If you are new to the self driving car field you'll probably come across Geohot's startup in the first hour of online search.

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