Applying for positions even if I didn't tick all the requirement bullet points for them. I didn't really think about this one much at the time and thought everyone did this, until after a few years in my industry I kept hearing this sentiment of people being afraid to apply for jobs just because they don't 100% fit all the criteria. I figure if you don't blatantly lie and claim to know something you don't, the company will do its job of weeding out an applicant if they're underqualified to do the work.
Learn in your own time. I've always had my own projects going ever since we got our first computer after moving from Ukraine to the US. The ability to learn quickly on my own helped me greatly as someone without a CS degree to fall back on.
All those requirements are their ideal wish list; but any smart employer worth working for should be more interested in you and what you can bring to the team, as opposed to whether or not you can successfully check off every one of those items.
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Applying for positions even if I didn't tick all the requirement bullet points for them. I didn't really think about this one much at the time and thought everyone did this, until after a few years in my industry I kept hearing this sentiment of people being afraid to apply for jobs just because they don't 100% fit all the criteria. I figure if you don't blatantly lie and claim to know something you don't, the company will do its job of weeding out an applicant if they're underqualified to do the work.
Learn in your own time. I've always had my own projects going ever since we got our first computer after moving from Ukraine to the US. The ability to learn quickly on my own helped me greatly as someone without a CS degree to fall back on.
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All those requirements are their ideal wish list; but any smart employer worth working for should be more interested in you and what you can bring to the team, as opposed to whether or not you can successfully check off every one of those items.