Woman Shares How She Went From A $28k Job To A $158k Job In 4 Years

[GregariousGroundhog]

1. In the realm of IT or Data Analytics, recruiters normally don't see "purple squirrels"

A purple squirrel is someone who exactly matches the education and experience requirements.

Being 70-80% qualified is often times "good enough", particularly if we can articulate examples of times where we found ourselves in an unfamiliar situation, how we handled it, and what we learned from it.

Someone who has 10 years experience as a Wal-Mart greeter and only a high school education is very unlikely to get hired as a software developer. If a software developer with 10 years experience in Oracle's development stack wants to try their hand at Microsoft though, they stand a reasonable chance of getting depending on the slate of other candidates they are competing against.