Timeline for Do hiring managers expect candidates to have side projects or work related hobbies in IT?
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| Nov 5, 2014 at 13:01 | comment | added | Juha Untinen | GitHub is my portfolio ;) But unfortunately it has not been of much help in terms of switching jobs. Only two potentials even asked about it, and only one of those was interested in seeing what I have there. | |
| Aug 10, 2014 at 22:11 | comment | added | Monica Cellio | Please see edits to the question, which might affect your answer. (Please flag this comment as obsolete once you've seen it.) | |
| Aug 10, 2014 at 14:01 | comment | added | Marcin | Unless you're a UI designer, merely being public facing doesn't count for much. | |
| Aug 9, 2014 at 7:18 | comment | added | Terence Eden | A lot of my work is open source or public facing. I appreciate that if you only work on classified or internal projects, you may not have that freedom. | |
| Aug 7, 2014 at 14:59 | comment | added | Marcin | You do, do you? Then you're highly atypical. You might like to give details of how you persuade employers to let you keep and share the source for projects you've worked on. | |
| Aug 7, 2014 at 14:47 | comment | added | Terence Eden | Sorry Marcin, you're wrong. I have a portfolio of work that I've been paid for. And I've interviewed several people who do the same. You can, of course, mix in what you do for fun as well. | |
| Aug 7, 2014 at 14:41 | comment | added | Marcin | "Think of it as a portfolio". The thing is, it's not a portfolio. A portfolio is a collection of paid work you show to employers, from previous jobs you've done. The IT industry doesn't allow its workers to show the code they've worked on for money, but instead demands that potential employees build up a hobby portfolio in their spare time. The crazy thing about this is that by definition it means people have to spend some coding time not working for their employers if they ever want another job. | |
| Aug 7, 2014 at 12:26 | history | answered | Terence Eden | CC BY-SA 3.0 |