[dbecker]

Whether or not you have these skills: potential employers need to SEE them. There are lots of pretenders out there, and employers are appropriately wary.

Are you showing employers results on your web page that a worse ML practitioner can't match.

Putting results from a kaggle competition on my LinkedIn page landed me my current job (and I am still contacted by potential employers every couple weeks).

The employers of the world aren't stupid, but they aren't omniscient either. So you need to make it easy for them to see that you have the skills you claim.

[tgflynn]

Did you win the competition ? If not what was your rank, if you don't mind sharing ? I'd be really interested to know how much impact this could have.

[dbecker]

I was #4 at the time my current employer contacted me. I've continued in the competition with a small team of their employees, and we are currently #2.

I don't know how sensitive the number of job contacts is to your ranking. My hunch is that a lower ranking would still establish credibility.