Re:Ask HN: If you had 3-6 months to demonstrate your skills?
by rich_sasha on Thursday April 21, 2022 @01:50AM
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Put some stuff up on GitHub that you can put on CV and apply for lots of jobs. At least some places will be desperate for coders and will
try quite hard to see if you are remotely suitable, certainly for more junior positions.
Not strictly programming but perhaps a useful gateway drug: how about learning the dark arts of AWS management? Massively useful, non-obvious, well-structured and with ample learning material, it gives potential employers, certainly smaller firms, a good reason to hire you. If you’re a coder with unclear track record, hmm, but if on top of that you’re good at cloud setup wrangling, that’s a win.
It’s what I’m considering doing every now and then, anyway.
Another approach, slightly cheeky but whatever, is to make a blog with at least 20-odd entries (I know, it’s not nothing), but backdate the posts, so it looks like you’ve been doing it for a while. Maybe add some comments from a few “dedicated readers”. It’s not really misleading, anyone looking at your blog would mostly care about the content, but creates more of an impression of continuity (which it sounds like you have, just not documented).
Not strictly programming but perhaps a useful gateway drug: how about learning the dark arts of AWS management? Massively useful, non-obvious, well-structured and with ample learning material, it gives potential employers, certainly smaller firms, a good reason to hire you. If you’re a coder with unclear track record, hmm, but if on top of that you’re good at cloud setup wrangling, that’s a win.
It’s what I’m considering doing every now and then, anyway.
Another approach, slightly cheeky but whatever, is to make a blog with at least 20-odd entries (I know, it’s not nothing), but backdate the posts, so it looks like you’ve been doing it for a while. Maybe add some comments from a few “dedicated readers”. It’s not really misleading, anyone looking at your blog would mostly care about the content, but creates more of an impression of continuity (which it sounds like you have, just not documented).