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How to Use Skill Proxies to Prove What You Know
Episode 22 of Career Skills with Fexingo dives into the power of skill proxies—the concrete outputs that signal competence when a degree or certification doesn't exist. Lucas and Luna examine how a community college dropout landed a data engineering role at a Fortune 500 company by building a public portfolio of SQL case studies on GitHub. They discuss why traditional credentials are losing signaling value, how to identify the right proxy for your target role, and the one metric recruiters actually check: engagement on your work. With examples from open-source contributions, side…
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