u/Careful-Mammoth3346 wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
Social skills is a big one. And it's not just the social skills required to do the job working with others and being a good coworker. It's the skills of kissing ass, being fake in the right way in order to network and get to know the right people who will grease the skids to a jo
u/michaelnovati replied ·
This is a bit cynical but I somewhat agree that there is a "sales process" in selling and marketing yourself to companies. Many job hunt processes are like this, but rely on your work experience to anchor on and I find that bootcamp grads tend to build narratives out of hardly anything (relatively speaking to experienced candidates), so the process feels a little weirder and some people naturally are good at this to their own benefit in the job hunt. But at a meta level - the market keeps changing and people are doing what they need to to get jobs, and this is where we are at right now.