| some tips, build your resume also side project - get some kind of side biz/app going. literally no reason not to. code samples - do some interviews with companies (pass out ur resume ull get code samples), complete the sample questions, verify them with someone, then put them in your github under code_samples/ to prove your coding skills open source contribs - pick one popular app, say a rails util, or some c app, fix a single bug, and for the next 5 years claim yourself as an open source contributor to popular open source package. these things helped me get a role, they should help transition or get a new dev role also. especially open source; fixing 2-3 bugs in an existing app (that each have hundreds of bugs) takes only 2-3 days... it will drastically help skills and credibility (and bonus: the oss community). second tip is just write an app, buy a book, keep it as reference, but most importantly write a complete app, ask questions on irc for expert advice (freenode), and that will get you places (it did for a lot of ppl) |
ask the dev team if you can try to fix a bug. if not on your own, or look through their commits and bugtracking and try to fix one or two open bugs and ask if they want the fix. eventually they will take one and you can use that on your resume to get hired