Why does the employer have to take your word for it? Why don't you write something in the language/technology that you want to work with and post it up on your

Why does the employer have to take your word for it? Why don't you write something in the language/technology that you want to work with and post it up on your website...or contribute to an open source project that uses it...etc The point is, code speaks louder than words. And your project doesn't haven't to be anything fancy or big, just something that you might need. A blog engine, an rss reader, a utility to do foo. Anything that shows that you can solve problems in this new environment as well as you can in a SAP based one.