Employment Odds
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Feel free to laugh, joke or insult me, but I was curious: What are the odds of someone employing a self-taught programmer, in the early stages of University? Taking into account you would need to get them to let you prove your skills, I expect them to be low. By self taught, I reckon I'm at a competent level. I don't have too many specialist areas but I would say I know enough about coding to debug and write basic stuff, if only to keep more qualified people less busy. Also, I wouldnt expect anyone has actually been employed from this status? (On a side note, this post marks my becoming a "Regular" :cool:).
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Feel free to laugh, joke or insult me, but I was curious: What are the odds of someone employing a self-taught programmer, in the early stages of University? Taking into account you would need to get them to let you prove your skills, I expect them to be low. By self taught, I reckon I'm at a competent level. I don't have too many specialist areas but I would say I know enough about coding to debug and write basic stuff, if only to keep more qualified people less busy. Also, I wouldnt expect anyone has actually been employed from this status? (On a side note, this post marks my becoming a "Regular" :cool:).
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Confused? You will be...Without qualifications or an employment history the only way you'll be able to persuade an employer to take you on is by offering to work for little or nothing, at least until you have been able to prove your value. I could see a very small and informally organised company using someone who came with no paper or history but who demonstrated ability to do grunt work at a cheap rate, but not any glossy corporate partner. I was horrified recently to learn of a UK company offering "work experience" to unemployed people and charging them thousands of pounds for it - just to get 'experience' on their CV!
Brian ----@
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Without qualifications or an employment history the only way you'll be able to persuade an employer to take you on is by offering to work for little or nothing, at least until you have been able to prove your value. I could see a very small and informally organised company using someone who came with no paper or history but who demonstrated ability to do grunt work at a cheap rate, but not any glossy corporate partner. I was horrified recently to learn of a UK company offering "work experience" to unemployed people and charging them thousands of pounds for it - just to get 'experience' on their CV!
Brian ----@
Oh yuck... I wouldn't pay anything for experience. I'd rather make it up than pay for it, instead of being able to write "I have repeatedly been ripped off" on my CV. Thanks for the input. I'm not properly considering getting a job as a programmer, since Uni takes up most of the day, but student work is easy enough to find round here. Just means, if I drop out of Uni then I know I'm safe...but I'm not pessismistic enough for that.
Ninja (the Nerd)
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Feel free to laugh, joke or insult me, but I was curious: What are the odds of someone employing a self-taught programmer, in the early stages of University? Taking into account you would need to get them to let you prove your skills, I expect them to be low. By self taught, I reckon I'm at a competent level. I don't have too many specialist areas but I would say I know enough about coding to debug and write basic stuff, if only to keep more qualified people less busy. Also, I wouldnt expect anyone has actually been employed from this status? (On a side note, this post marks my becoming a "Regular" :cool:).
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Confused? You will be...I've been pretty lucky in my job search but I considerably put odds on my side by working on my employability skills, right off the bat my boss told me he hired me because I seemed to be a go-getter ! From my small experience, there seem to be no course that would've helped me with the skills to make the job, working efficiently (not perfectly) and completing your projects will probably be a great asset.
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