Timeline for Can someone who did mostly theory in academia survive in the tech industry?
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| Nov 10, 2021 at 20:02 | comment | added | spicy.dll | To add onto @nick012000, there's a saying in the tech industry: "If you meet all the requirements for a job, you're overqualified." Yea you should learn programming concepts and different languages to an extent, but year-based experience requirements are almost always non-realistic. | |
| Nov 8, 2021 at 15:51 | comment | added | Andrew | @nick012000 Well, this is where "padding your resume" and "describing your experience in a relatable way", and "it's a numbers game", come in. Your resume needs to get you in the door past HR talking to the actual people you will work with. At that point, you can explain your expertise, and you can definitely be hired even if you're not an expert on every one of the 20 technologies listed in the ad. The point is, don't rule yourself out based on the job description, if you think you can do the job. | |
| Nov 8, 2021 at 15:08 | comment | added | nick012000 | "the "requirements" companies post are not strict requirements" Unless they're using an automatic system to throw people's resumes in the rubbish because they don't have specific keywords in them, because that's cheaper than having a human actually look at the resume and make a decision about whether or not to throw it in the rubbish. | |
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| Nov 8, 2021 at 1:36 | history | answered | Andrew | CC BY-SA 4.0 |