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The trick is getting the opportunity to sell yourself that way. If you can't get the interview in the first place, how well you can sell yourself is irrelevant
by vonmoltke 11y ago
The trick is getting the opportunity to sell yourself that way. If you can't get the interview in the first place, how well you can sell yourself is irrelevant.
This begs the question: how did you manage to get those interviews?
- mikekchar 11y agoMy guess: http://jldrill.rubyforge.org/ http://jldrill.rubyforge.org/ If anyone looks at the code, it's pretty crap, but it shows that I like to write code. Also, because I knew I was going back into IT, I built: http://mikekchar.github.io/portfolio/ http://mikekchar.github.io/portfolio/ It contains a bunch of egotistical musings about software. It shows that I probably think too highly of myself, but that I know how to write English fairly well ;-) Also, after I moved to London, I made a point of attending events where I could make contacts. My return to IT was complicated by the fact that most of my career was in Ottawa, Canada. Since my family was moving to the UK, my contacts were useless to me. I got 3 interviews in as many weeks from simply meeting people at the pub. As far as I'm concerned, these activities are "selling myself". The fact that I also enjoy them is beside the point (especially drinking beer and chatting with other developers ;-) ). Lately I've been working on trying to allocate time to my side projects. As you can see, I haven't updated my previous projects in a very long time. However, it is vitally important. In the end, the job I ended up accepting was through a head hunter. No idea how he got my name. Probably should have asked him ;-).