How To Overcome 'Learn-->Job' Gap: Solution

Alex Row — Thu, 17 Dec 2020 11:25:01 +0000

So this time it will be a real deal

I guess the main problem many of the newcomers have when arriving in this huge mess we call job market is the double/triple/10xstandarts to candidates as well as for interviewers.

The cornerstones

The Company

Lets begin from the company's point of view.
It makes sense to try to find the cheapest and at the same time the best candidate among candidates.
But many fresh companies fail classically by focusing on the former, completely discarding the latter.
With that being said, not all companies even NEED all senior stuff in the first place. And it is fine, really!
But when you look only for juniors or, sweet systemd, try to underpay for middle or senior, often what you end up with is just a bunch of bad code and people caring not enough for it, if at all.
But the culprit is how do you look for a decent candidate then?
And that is the task you need to tune you search methods and sources for each company.

The Candidate

Everyone is so different, and, I guess there is no silver bullet from what-to-do perspective.
If you really like coding/design or really anything you can do remotely now, because you know, you will be fine. You'll get a job eventually if you just keep up the good work and be interested how all around works and be persistent enough.

But there is something I want to say from how-to-deal-with perspective tho:
If you got rejected over and over and feel desparate, dont be. It is ok.
Espesially in times of global pandemic, and the whole world go nuts about the US elections, China domination, and the instagram models wanting to show that they living a perfect life at the same time.

It is completely normal for a human being to get upset from time to time. To just shut down from information overfeed.
Moreover I guarantee you that most of the programmers and designers do so successfuly.
And it may take some time to recover from stress, to digest information received, to reflect on things in you head.
What really shoud matter is for you to find your own ways dealing with it though.
You know, the usual stuff like exercising, take time to think on things and not to be hard on yourself, maybe even to just lie down, turn some post-rock/ambient music and do nothing.

Be well! Stay positive and test negative everyone.

How To Overcome Learn --to--> Job Gap

Alex Row — Sat, 27 Apr 2019 22:38:26 +0000

So any1 who stumbled upon this great abyss of the phrase "Oh, sorry, we dont hire juniors!", sure know what I am talking about.

Disclaimer: If you are here for the answer - you can click another article. Its just a manifest of self-pity.

Its that moment, when you applied to all local offices just to do what you enjoy and not making websites for facebook bot holders and traders algorithms.

Its that moment of despair, when you realise, that you cannot take a job where you can do something useful, inspiring and balancing for yourself, f.e. go to Mozilla and help them to fight Chromium monopoly...

Its that moment of grief and a moaning for lost opportunities.