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I wonder about that. Right now, I can pick up pretty much whatever tech is thrown at me. But any job demands that I have experience in this field or that field
by nstart 10y ago
I wonder about that. Right now, I can pick up pretty much whatever tech is thrown at me. But any job demands that I have experience in this field or that field which is pretty frustrating tbh. "You don't have experience in this entire react stack? Bye!" oki... I'll look for backend dev? Oh right. Must be fullstack and must know all the JS frameworks.
Maybe devops/sysadmin/whatchamacallit? "Must know this particular NoSQL DB, and be able to administer Kubernetes clusters"
Fine I can kind of do that, but I have my doubts because I've never used said DB. And it goes on.
It's a deeper argument than what I just made, but my extreme other side point was just to highlight that the job market looks scary when you browse sites and realise you've only worked with pure js and jquery and no one wants that anymore. And then you see that they want people who've worked on real world apps using all this new tech.
There is eithe a real need or at least the illusion of a real need and I wouldn't discount that entirely. Somewhere in the middle, the answer probably lies.
- DenisM 10y agoPeople who post job ads where you can browse them usually don't understand the job they are hiring for, hence the checklists and keyword screens. So you need to find a way to get in touch with those on the inside who do know, and can make decisions. Hacker news ads are one way, maybe look at stack overflow, certainly look through your network for internal referrals, perhaps some meet ups. Also I think one should not use the keyword stuffed resume when going through backchannels. Personally I discount them, and focus on resumes with a record of getting things done in a related field.