My own rule of thumb is that only the last five years, at most, of my experience counts. I say that after almost 50 years of experience.
-- Walt On 03/26/2014 11:02 AM, Timothy Humphrey wrote: > Hey Jonathan. > > I've only hired a dozen or so folks in my day, so I may be way off base here. > > I would see your 8yrs as trumping the need for a degree, but also probably > being a bit of a drawback. I would think you were probably engrained in how > you do things, and what solutions you would bring to the table. During the > interview, I would look and listen hard for you to prove to me that you can > think outside that 8yr box. The concern would be that this new hire would try > to convert my department/division into their old job. > > If that rings true on your end, may I suggest hitting github or bitbucket for > some projects that interest you, but are also way off that 8yr beaten path. > Pull the source code, study, build something with them, contribute to them, > etc. Then in the interview, talk that stuff up as-much-as/more-than the 8yr > job. The 8yrs speak for themselves, in my opinion. > > Thanks. > - Timothy Humphrey _______________________________________________ UPHPU mailing list [email protected] http://uphpu.org/mailman/listinfo/uphpu IRC: #uphpu on irc.freenode.net
