With the holiday season firmly upon us, I feel like I'm drifting a bit in terms of my training, self-directed learning, and career switch efforts. I have begun applying for entry-level developer jobs, but of course I don't expect much in the way of success at this point--I really need to build my skill set and portfolio a bit more. If nothing else, recruiters will probably be turned off when they learn that my level of experience with any given skill is roughly 2-2.5 months! I suppose my best strategy there is to try to spin it into "look at how fast I can learn new things--I did all this in only 6-8 weeks!"
Still, it will be an uphill climb for a low-end job, and the holiday slowdown will make it worse--but at this point I have no reason not to apply to anything that seems like I might have some chance of being able to do. After all, the worst-case scenario is that I spend some time in an interview and don't get the job--hardly the end of the world.
I did just have a phone interview earlier this morning. The recruiter admitted that I might not have enough experience for the role... but it sounds like a lot of it would be on-the-job training with a proprietary tool set anyway, so learning ability is more important than current skills. Again, hopefully I can turn my current state into a plus in that regard, by demonstrating the speed with which I can learn and improve.
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