I can't recommend Nick Corcodilos' book Ask The Headhunter highly enough. (He also has a website http://asktheheadhunter.com) It will help shape your thinking about the interview process. That you phrase it as "prove to my employer" rather than "get my employer to see" is a huge step. Nick says that you prove it by doing the work for the employer in a sample situation. Get a real problem that the employer actually has, and solve it in front of the boss.

As an employer myself, I put a lot of weight on the code samples that I'm shown. I can tell a lot about someone's work habits from their code. I don't care if you're a vi or emacs user, or if you prefer 4 or 8 tabs, but I do want it clear that you care about your code.

xoxo,
Andy

In reply to Re: Proving I have mad perl skillzzzlz by petdance
in thread Proving I have mad perl skillzzzlz by BUU

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