skills – Page 6 – Steven Savage

Skill Portability: Direct Skill Portability

September 17, 2016October 26, 2012 by Steven Savage

(9/17/2016 – These posts have been expanded in a book, Skill Portability: A Guide To Moving Skills Between Jobs)

So my little guide to “how to do Skill Portability” is an acronym, DARE. This is not just because I love acronyms, but because it’s handy to remember that skills fit into four categories that let you determine how you can use them in your career. Be it training plans or a resume, you want to think about what your skills mean to your career.

The D? That stands for the easiest kind of portability – Direct.

How To Work With Your Skills Framework

October 15, 2012 by Steven Savage

I remember when Java was a curiosity. Then I remember when it was going to become the universal language of everything. Then I remember when it actually got used. There was about a 15 year period these events were spread among.

Of course, a good programmer knows how to learn any language. They were ready when Java actually got used.

I remember when the cloud was a curiosity and virtualization was something people only talked about. Now everything’s cloud, and there’s at least less B.S. and more actual functionality. That took about ten years.

Use Your Skills On The Job Search

July 23, 2012 by Steven Savage

So you’ve got all these skills and abilities and geektastic inclinations. You want to use them on the job search, and so you put them on a resume or talk about them. Let me suggest you take it a bit further.

I suggest you make your job search a way of leveraging your progeek skills and interests. In fact I suggest you try basing some of it on what you do anyway.