[melbourne-pug] Putting Python on ones resume

[David Crisp]

Thanks Mike,

Your response provides a neat and clear outline on how to assess skills 
for a resume.  At least for the purposes I was looking for.

The way I worded my comment about having the employer help me reach the 
next level probably sounded less how I meant it.  What I was really 
meaning was that it would be great to work with skilled people who I could 
ask questions of.  Sort of Mentors rather than trainers.   The sort of 
people who could code review and observe there were better ways of doing 
things or different ways.   Not so much a full on training.  Although now 
I read what I wrote it both locations it could still come accross that 
way.

Either way,  I have a better idea how to write my resume to sell the 
skills I have already.

Regards,
David


On Thu, 7 Jul 2016, Mike Dewhirst wrote:

> On 7/07/2016 1:33 PM, David Crisp wrote:
>> I have been catching up with a lot of my Python blogs at the moment, and
>> as I read through one of them a thought came to me.
>> 
>> How much Python do you need to know (or how confident do you need to be
>> with Python) before you put it on your Resume.   And how do you go about
>> explaining the level of skill you have with it.
>> 
>> At what point can you say to yourself "Yeah, I can put Python on my
>> resume.  Theres a lot of features in python I can't do or Understand but
>> theres many other features I have used extensivly.
>
> and I know where and how to look up stuff when necessary
>
>
> I probably have
>> enough that a Python employer would be interested to help me reach to
>> the next level"
>
> I'm a potential Python employer and I'm not interested in funding your growth 
> as a developer. However, if you are sufficiently competent to do the job in 
> the first place at the salary offered I am definitely interested in funding 
> your ongoing professional development on a shared basis. IOW your time 
> (mostly) and my resources such as courses, books, conferences etc. That is a 
> win-win for us both.
>
> In my opinion, if you know how to discover stuff you are sufficiently 
> competent to hold down a junior position.
>
> If you know where your weaknesses are you are sufficiently competent to hold 
> down a mid-line job.
>
> If know where your weaknesses are *and* you also have problem-domain 
> experience *or* you are somewhat battle-hardened with a decent 
> wisdom-quotient you are sufficiently competent to hold down a senior job.
>
> Cheers
>
> Mike
>
>
>> 
>> David
>> 
>> 
>> 
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