DJH 548: how to launch a career without a degree

Screencast

One of the best ways to launch a career without school, college, or experience — to be your own credential — is to prove your knowledge of tech tools with a screencast.

Basically, you can use a tool like Loom to record yourself using and explaining a software tool that a company might use, e.g. 

Intercom
Zapier
Asana
Todoist
LinkedIn Sales Navigator

(See a list of common tech tools for each role type in our career guides)

To learn the tool itself, you can sign up for a free trial, tinker around, watch a YouTube video, then show what you've learned when you send your portfolio to a company.

It doesn't need to perfect, but it's powerfully valuable to do this.

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