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Ask Slashdot: Getting Hired As a Self-Taught Old Guy?
StonyCreekBare writes "How can an autodidact get past the jobs screening process? I have a long track record of success, despite limited formal education. Despite many accomplishments, published papers, and more, I cannot seem to get past the canned hiring process and actually get before a hiring manager. Traditional hiring processes seem to revolve around the education and degrees one holds, not one's track record and accomplishments. Now as an older tech-worker I seem to encounter a double barrier by being gray-haired as well. All prospective employers seem to see is a gray-haired old guy with no formal degrees. The jobs always seem to go to the younger guys with impressive degrees, despite a total lack of accomplishment. How can an accomplished, if gray-haired, self-educated techie get a foot in the door?"
Take the HR weenies hostage, and demand an audience with somebody technical.
Get your hair dyed some other natural-looking color, with eyebrows to match. You can always go back to grey once you have the job.
My truck is like a series of tubes.
Yes, politicians are tantamount to fraud.
Kid-proof tablet..
No, you're lying because it's common knowledge that, at the end of the day, what really matters is KNOWLEDGE. So, ditch college, learn everything by hacking and you are bound to get the highest spot in a company. Because everyone in college is a rich spoiled kid.
Slashdot people don't waste their precious time with such nonsense as "grades", "exams" or "degrees". And certainly not "certifications". Those are for idiots with a lot of money in their hands. No sir, follow the example of great hackers, hack a bank and go through their front door proving their security is SHIT and everyone there is a complete IDIOT. The bank owner himself will give you the CEO position from where you will be able to order every desktop in the company converted to Linux and open source their business process.
This doesn't exactly paint you in a goid light. The architect was right. Welcome to functional style programming.
meh
I had to teach myself cause I couldn't find a course on being and old guy.
Oh, PS. You "self-taught" morons might think you're so much better because you've contributed to open source, put your free time into researching various libraries frameworks and APIs, but in College, we "learned how to learn". Obviously you people haven't learned how to learn cause you never went to college; the only place you can do that. I learned that in college so it must be true and exclusive to college.
What's that? You maintain an open-source project and help maintain the BSD/Linux kernels and support IT professionals (like me) on online support forums for free? Think that makes you special? HAHA! You don't even have a degree!
Yup give "Idiocracy" a watch. Originally a comedy, it's becoming a documentary day by day.