[cuban leaf]

IT.

I use a lot of Viso, Word, Excel, etc. I was downloading some after market stencils just today, actually.

None of this stuff is rocket science and it is easy to self teach, especially with samples of other people’s work and the internet. Then you bring samples of your work to interviews and that’s about it...

Well, I was a pretty good salesman back in the day and that skill actually helps quite a bit. I tell every young person looking for a job that the skills necessary to do the job are the price of admission. But if you want to actually get hired you have to leave them with the impression that you are a person they would enjoy working with. Otherwise, fuggetaboutit.

[rbg81]

But if you want to actually get hired you have to leave them with the impression that you are a person they would enjoy working with.

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Or, more to the point, convince them that you are a solution rather than a problem. Too many people look at jobs like an entitlement—what can they do for me, rather than vise versa.