People who are looking for, say, a senior developer, don't care if you actually held such a title at your former job. They care about a skill-set, and – perhaps more importantly – a maturity or wisdom that comes only with experience.
If you've only a few years of actual job experience, few employers are going to take you seriously if you label yourself senior, regardless of whether or not you held such a title at your previous job. You would have to be able to back it up with some convincing evidence at the very least, and if you are able to do that, then what does the title itself matter? If you've been massively involved with an open source project (and have the commit history to document it), then no employer is going to hold it against you if your actual job title was "junior front-end developer".
I remain firmly convinced that the junior/senior classifications exist only as a way for consulting firms to signal which consultants cost what.
That's true once you get to the point where people start phone screening, interviewing, etc.
If you think "junior" isn't a keyword that gets filtered on by people (or software) LONG before it gets to the point that someone even begins evaluating skill sets, then...well, frankly, you've been lucky to only work in environments that are way more progressive than most companies are.
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People who are looking for, say, a senior developer, don't care if you actually held such a title at your former job. They care about a skill-set, and – perhaps more importantly – a maturity or wisdom that comes only with experience.
If you've only a few years of actual job experience, few employers are going to take you seriously if you label yourself senior, regardless of whether or not you held such a title at your previous job. You would have to be able to back it up with some convincing evidence at the very least, and if you are able to do that, then what does the title itself matter? If you've been massively involved with an open source project (and have the commit history to document it), then no employer is going to hold it against you if your actual job title was "junior front-end developer".
I remain firmly convinced that the junior/senior classifications exist only as a way for consulting firms to signal which consultants cost what.
Adam,
That's true once you get to the point where people start phone screening, interviewing, etc.
If you think "junior" isn't a keyword that gets filtered on by people (or software) LONG before it gets to the point that someone even begins evaluating skill sets, then...well, frankly, you've been lucky to only work in environments that are way more progressive than most companies are.