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Where is my experience?
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| chihtan 2002-06-27, 10:41 am |
| I've been in the eb design industry for over 2 years and am changing to "web developer" track which requires more programming skills that are new to me. However, almost all employers are asking for a minimum 3-year experience. If nobody is willing to give me a chance, where am I going to start? | |
| BreakWind 2002-06-27, 11:14 am |
| Ask jackiechan. | |
| Gareth Leung 2002-06-27, 11:50 am |
| Start it by you own with your spare time.  | |
| cross36 2002-06-27, 5:01 pm |
| Exactly, spare time means knowledge and experience | |
| RichardJW 2002-06-27, 6:06 pm |
| I think you should be realistic. I've got a decent amount of experience programming DHTML and ASP (though it was usually left to a colleague to make it look 'pretty') and a job is absolutely nowhere in sight. You say that employers are asking for a minimum 3-year experience. I've got that and noone is hiring me - and it is not through a lack of trying I can assure you. I know it sounds bad, but the market as everyone knows is terrible. There seems to be a few openings for highly trained specialists - these are high paying jobs - and recession or no recession there is demand for them. The fact is that I love to program, and the advice about trying it on your own is excellent. That way you see if you like it firsthand and at least it is a start. Do you know that if this was 2 - 3 years ago, the tone of these replies would be so different to how you find them today? Hang on in there if you are interested in gaining website skills and yes, learn them in your spare time. | |
| kappagamma698 2002-06-27, 11:10 pm |
| What I am doing is working at a helpdesk and they have a website that is for the helpdesk staff to use to assign tickets out and once I got in good with the Web guy he is letting me do that page and that page is over 500 different pages which many are very simple but the main page is javascript and css, this is the best way to learn find a place to work like a help desk or tech and start working on internal sites they really dont care if you change them daily and most the time they need to be changed daily and just mess around and see what works and soon I will convert the page to an asp page just for experience, then I also picked up a program that they update everyweek that was done in VBScript so I just bought a book and I am diving into that now. Who knows this will look really good on a resume and it looks good to my current employeer and hopefully those in the other IT depts | |
| chihtan 2002-07-01, 6:52 pm |
| Thanks you guys.
I'm a freelence now and hope this will count on my resume. | |
| odonata 2002-07-02, 7:50 am |
| Congrats and good luck on your endeavors! | |
| Gareth Leung 2002-07-02, 10:41 am |
| quote:
Originally posted by chihtan
Thanks you guys.
I'm a freelence now and hope this will count on my resume.
I think freelance counted. |
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