I’ve run into a problem from here though. Every Godamn company has their software of choice or whatever, EVEN THOUGH the softwares are functionally identical, have the same components, and work the same way overall. Is this not neoliberalism incarnate lol
So you HAVE to say that you’re familiar with this obscure software to get your foot in the door but then you have to talk about it in an interview like your previous org has used it in the past (even though they haven’t).
Does anyone have any life hacks for this particular situation
Youtube tutorials are super helpful. Depending on what the software is and how much time you have, you can get a free trial for either Udemy or O'Reilly learning. O'Reilly (paired with a firefox plugin thqt lets you download the books as an epub) was how I got my most recent job.
Told them I have a vast experience with SQL, reports, PowerBI and Python for Data Analysis. Kinda a half-truth. I've done reporting through Salesforce, visualization through excel and Python for simple scripts lol. I just spent a good amount of time the last few months going a bit more in depth learning SQL and Tableau to the point where I could mix that knowledge with what I had actually done at a previous job.
So yeah I guess in the interview just talk about it in more broad terms while peppering in any details that you learn about the specific software.