TonyG wrote: *Profile your skills as a problem solver who can get qualified people to write code, rather than competing with a million people who can write code but can't solve real world business problems. Sell your understanding of business rules, because this is an area where you excel compared to all of those people who can write code but have no idea what to write.*
I know it's difficult to find a position in this economy but from the employer side I can tell you it's been difficult to find people who even acknowledge that the world of technology reaches beyond their current skillset. One of the questions I ask in every interview is "what have you learned and applied recently?" and yet more times than not I get blank stares instead of a real answer. Well guess what? Nobody is going to pay you to get trained, but do it anyway. There are copious resources available for free or low cost to get started, and once you get started you'll find more stuff to learn with less to invest. Get creative. That's what we've been doing for our employers for years, so why not do it for yourself? Sure, you're tired, there's no time to learn, yada, yada. Do it anyway. Learn or burn. Not that anyone cares, but I have a deal with myself that has served me well for decades. Commit to yourself that any investment in your yourself must come with a payout of a factor of the investment. For me, that factor is 100x. In other words, if I spend $50 on a book I commit to myself to learn enough from that book to earn $5K. If I spend an hour of time learning something, then I commit to finding 100 hours of opportunity to apply what I have learned. Certainly through the years there've been a few duds, but more often than not this has worked splendidly. The key to the whole deal is in committing to execute the payout. If you can't be counted on to pay yourself back for an investment in yourself, why would an employer want to make a similar commitment? I know, I know... preaching to the choir. Or am I? _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list [email protected] http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
