How to sell myself in IT Graduate Programmer role where I have little to no commercial experience ?
Asked by raisin_smiles
I have 10yrs experience working primarily as a dba/developer using Informix/Ingres on Unix platforms. Developing 4GL forms, sql, reports etc.., I am very competent in Microsoft office and excel/access vba and the Ingres working included maintenance of embedded C code and several label programming languages. I left my job of 10 years, after 2 years in a software testing role to pursue a university degree. I have an interview for a graduate vb.net programmer role which includes using asp.net, xml and ado.net. Through my HNC qualification (2001) I have experience in visual basic and java. I also graduated this year with a BSc Hon in Applied Information Technology with a first which is a general IT degree. The programming elements included access/excel vba, flash actionscript (similar to java), OOP theory, XML and JSP. So my overall experience is a mixed bag in a number of languages and applications on all kinds of platforms unix, windows, ibm mainframe. How should I tie in this experience to .net solutions? I know XML is feature heavily in the ado.net and jsp can be compared to asp.net. Also I have used visual basic 5 which of course is pre.net and procedural based. I know there will be other graduates and programmers who have more experience than me in the general languages such as java, C++, C#, Vb.net etc.., What can I do to prove that I could be a better candidate than Joe blogs who did a computer science degree and used .net technology for 3 years? Forgot to mention I have already signed up for a city & gulds in software development (evening course). Modules include vb.net (highly relevalnt for this job), web design (should include asp, again highly relevant), C++ and software testing.

Best Answer:
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Answered by Ilyes R