Comments on: Some Unconventional Interview Tips http://davewrites.com/some-unconventional-interview-tips/ about technology, life and an imperative to create something better Fri, 27 Apr 2012 17:50:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Ari Herzog http://davewrites.com/some-unconventional-interview-tips/comment-page-1/#comment-444 Ari Herzog Sun, 05 Apr 2009 01:31:19 +0000 #comment-444 My first post-college job was working as a webmaster for a multinational manufacturing firm. It was 1999, when the web was commercially three years old. I had no vocational training in it, but I was nonetheless hired for my experience of numerous part-time jobs and assorted web technologies I knew up to that point.<br /> <br /> Skills are like labels; everyone gets them and everyone uses them but they are just words to describe other words, categories.<br /> <br /> If you can prove your worth beyond the categories, that's the stuff heroes are built from. My first post-college job was working as a webmaster for a multinational manufacturing firm. It was 1999, when the web was commercially three years old. I had no vocational training in it, but I was nonetheless hired for my experience of numerous part-time jobs and assorted web technologies I knew up to that point.

Skills are like labels; everyone gets them and everyone uses them but they are just words to describe other words, categories.

If you can prove your worth beyond the categories, that’s the stuff heroes are built from.

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