Advice for a new website developer

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CACIO-CODE
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Advice for a new website developer

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I've read books, watched videos and practiced the entire scope of the common website application development technologies, these including XHTML, JavaScript, CSS, XML, XSLT, PHP, MYSQL, AJAX, SQL, etc. I’ve been training myself in computing technologies (engineering, maintenance and application development) throughout my teenage years. Having trained myself to a very advanced level in all these technologies I’m finding it quite extremely difficult to convince a recruiter or employer into acknowledging the level of my skills. My Resume shows no sign of my knowledge and experience since I’ve never worked in a job environment before. My skills in website application development are higher than the average developer; I’m without a doubt an expert, very confident indeed. Educational background GCSEs & As&Alevels, Art and media, And currently studying a BTEC National in Art & Design. I would really appreciate all advice posted about finding a entering a job role or building up my resume employment part. Most preferably the routes taken to develop your resume experience and employment areas. Also any position opportunities you might have available, paid or not, remotely (home based), Freelancing etc. I own one of the latest HP laptops with a high speed mobile broadband technology, famous and latest graphics website development environments available today including Adobe applications, Micromedia (Fireworks, Dreamweaver, Flash, etc). I’m really very advanced, I’m way over novice and mid-weight but just stuck in one of those dilemmas. Please advice about entering a website development position or how to develop my experience and employment part, or simply post a short story about your first entrance into application development roles. I’ll be very grateful.
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Re: Advice for a new website developer

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Ideally, you want to have taken computer science classes from a good university.
Say someone with a Msc in C.S. from MIT has no problem finding a job.
Now you do not seem to indicate having done that, have you.
So take such classes one way or the other, could be online university or not, Microsoft certification...
People want to see academic credential of some sort.
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Re: Advice for a new website developer

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I already have a progressing education in college. And I not willing to take a Computer class/degree. I just think it's a waste of time since computing is can be easily self taught at home
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Well, you may think that, but the people who are potentially hiring you might have a different opinion.
Guess which opinion will prevail.
What obama is telling you is the experience the she has gained, and it agrees with what I have encountered.
Make your own choices, of course, but you did ask for advice.
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CACIO-CODE wrote:I’m really very advanced, I’m way over novice and mid-weight but just stuck in one of those dilemmas.
Prove it. Employers want to see evidence of your skills, so create a set of portfolio sites. My site, http://www.ooer.com/ , has a small set of 'toys' that demonstrate what I can create. They're horrendously old now because I only update them when I'm looking for a job and I've been at my current place for ages.

If you already have some stuff online then link to it and perhaps someone here will be able to offer some advice about it.
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CACIO-CODE wrote:I already have a progressing education in college. And I not willing to take a Computer class/degree. I just think it's a waste of time since computing is can be easily self taught at home
What you can learn at home is how to write working code. What (in theory) you're taught to write at university is how to write code, but a whole suite of other things too, like project management, writing specifications, development methodologies, team working etc. That probably seems entirely unimportant to a self-taught developer because you know you can build a working app without them, but an employer thinks differently. Employers have to prove to their clients what work is being done, how it's progressing, and so on, so the other stuff comes into play. Consequently lots of employers want graduates.
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